While art may initially captivate us visually, it possesses a profound depth that extends beyond mere aesthetics. Art possesses the unique ability to touch our hearts, stir our thoughts, make…
Museums
Police are standing guard outside the Zeche Zollern in Germany after the museum received right-wing backlash over designated time slots for visitors who are Black, Indigenous, or belong to other…
Installation view of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Broad Museum, Los Angeles (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — A deadly disease, human technology threatening to end…
See the Luminous Paintings Monet Made During His Many Trips to the French Riviera, Now on View at a Show in Monaco
A new exhibition with nearly 100 paintings by Claude Monet spotlights the artist’s trips to the French Riviera beginning with the first visit with his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1883.…
Last year, the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) displayed a collection of previously unseen paintings purportedly by Jean-Michel Basquiat in a now infamous exhibition titled Heroes and Monsters. Suspicion mounted,…
Banksy’s ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’ mural to be sold back to the public for £120 a share
The irony would not be lost on Banksy. A mural he painted for the public in the centre of Margate on Valentine’s Day is now being sold back to the…
Sotheby’s U.K. Profit Dropped By 24 Percent Last Year, With Brexit the Likely Culprit
Sotheby’s reported a 24 percent year-on-year decline in profit for its U.K. operation in 2022, citing art market and global economic uncertainties, as well as increased red tape as a…
Auctioneer, who admitted he helped make fake Basquiats seized by the FBI, avoids jail time
Michael Barzman, the Los Angeles auctioneer who admitted that he and an accomplice were responsible for between 20 and 30 fake works marketed as authentic Jean-Michel Basquiat pieces, will avoid…
Vincent van Gogh painted this cypress just three months before he took his life. Between 1888 and 1890, during what would become his final chapter, he fixated upon cypresses. Widely…
Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, “Bélizaire and the Frey Children” (c. 1837), oil on canvas, 47 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan…