This New York Exhibition Explores The Multi-Faceted Appeal of ‘African Abstraction’
Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist you should know. Check out what we have in store, and inquire for
Nobody Wants to Buy This $410 Million Roman Villa
The sale of a Roman villa with the only ceiling mural Caravaggio ever painted has flopped at auction even with a 20 percent discount. Despite international press interest and clear art-historical clout, the mansion drew not one offer at an online auction on
At the Prado, You Can Not Only See These Flowers Painted by Jan Brueghel
Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Madrid’s Museo del Prado each year pause to take in the lush tableau of Jan Brueghel the Elder’s 17th-century painting The Sense of Smell, in which a reclining nude female with a young child is
Remarkable New Infrared Images of Picasso’s Blue Period Works Reveal Buried Underpaintings and His Extraordinary Process
As the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death approaches in 2023, news has poured in about conservation research into three Blue Period works. In 2014, researchers announced a “hidden” portrait beneath The Blue Room (1901) and, four years later, revealed a dozen layers beneath The Soup (1903), plus a
A Painting Long Believed to Be by a Rembrandt Pupil Is Now a Confirmed Picture by the Dutch Master
A landscape painting at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin that was long attributed to Govert Flinck, a student of Rembrandt van Rijn, is now believed to be by the famed Dutch painter himself. Thanks to technical photographs, researchers now say the painting, titled Landscape with
A Newly Reattributed Michelangelo Drawing Could Fetch $30 Million at Christie’s Paris Next Month
A previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo is going up for sale at Christie’s Paris next month and could fetch a startling €30 million ($32.8 million). The rare work depicting a nude man standing between two figures dates from early in the Renaissance master’s career.
Two Decades of Lee Choun Hwan’s Vibrant Visions of the Korean Landscape Are on View in London
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14th-Century Illustration of Venice Is the Oldest Found Yet
Friar Niccolò da Poggibonsi began his travelogue with a prayer. Per a modern translation, he asked that God and all God’s saints “bestow their grace” so he might accurately describe all the holy sites, “in order and without misstep,” that he
The Art World Ignored Faith Ringgold for Decades.
The art world has as much to do with access as it does with art. So a big part of the artist Faith Ringgold’s retrospective at the New Museum in New York, a sweeping survey spanning almost six decades, is organized around
More than just a pretty face
A swagger portrait by the Bolognese painter Ludovico Carracci, Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in armour, came out on top at £4.3m (£5m with fees) during Christie’s Old Master evening sale last night, which totalled £25.8m (£31.1m with fees)