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24 June 2026

Masterpieces from the Reuben Collection to Go on View at the Courtauld Gallery in London

The Courtauld Gallery in London announced this week that it will put on view works from the Reuben Collection alongside works from its own holdings this fall. Opening September 18, the exhibition, titled Modern Painting from the Courtauld and Reuben Collections - will feature works by Paul Cezanne, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Amedeo Modigliani, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

How Did M.C. Escher Develop His Mind-Bending, Paradoxical World?

M.C. Escher was one of those rare artists to become a pop cultural icon. His most emblematic works are instantly recognizable, and continue to beguile new fans with their startlingly original, paradoxical constructions. It is little wonder that some of Escher’s best-loved optical illusions have been reinvented and referenced countless times, appearing on album covers, inspiring films like The Matrix (1999) and Inception (2010), and even being parodied by Family Guy and The Simpsons. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

Art Basel's Unlimited Sector for Giant-Sized Projects: By the Numbers

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven - Ecclesiastes says. When it comes to large-scale, big-budget artworks, that time is Monday afternoon in Basel, Switzerland, when Art Basel's Unlimited sector opens to invited guests. It offers a rare chance to see enormous and complicated artworks that may soon be shipped off to a collector's private island (or storage space) or plunked down in a far-flung sculpture park. If you want to understand what capital can accomplish in the art world, it is an essential visit. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

Art Loss Register Recovers 17th-Century Flemish Painting Stolen in 2020

The London-based Art Loss Register said Tuesday that it had recovered a 17th-century Flemish painting that had been stolen in September 2020 from a private residence in Canada. The missing painting was reported to police and logged with the Art Loss Register shortly after its theft. The stolen painting, Interior of a Collector's Cabinet: An Allegory of Sight (ca. 1660) by Jan van Kessel the Elder and Abraham Willemsens, was identified in October 2023 ahead of a planned sale at Sotheby's. The auction house cross-checked the painting with the Art Loss Register's database of stolen works as part of its due diligence, which ultimately matched it with the work taken in 2020. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years

A 400-year-old act of editorial vandalism has finally been undone online. Florence's Galileo Museum has reunited Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus with more than 500 pages that were later cut from it, restoring for the first time the full sweep of the master's largest surviving notebook. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian's New York Paintings

The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian's years in New York in particular, the influence of the city's boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian's paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Heir of Margarethe Lieser Sues for Restitution of Gustav Klimt Portrait That Fetched $37.5 M. at Auction in Austria Before the Sale Fell Through

A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on a single bid for $37.5 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction in Austria, but the bidder, a Hong Kong collector represented by Patti Wong and Associates, withdrew their offer after the sale. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Marisa Merz at 100: Major Retrospective to Span Three Italian Museums

Italy's Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s included just one woman: Marisa Merz, best known for quite some time as the wife of fellow artist Mario Merz. Slowly but surely, though, institutions around the world have been giving the late painter and sculptor her due. To celebrate the centenary of Merz's birth, three institutions in and around her hometown of Turin are preparing to mount distinct exhibitions altogether comprising one show, titled Marisa Merz - The Dance of the Hours. ... read more (external link)

03 June 2026

Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums

Are we entering a new, distinctive phase of the art market? After a couple of fallow years, during which wealthy collectors and their estates were reluctant to consign high-value works to auction, Sotheby's and Christie's offered a crop of Modern and classic contemporary trophies with prestigious provenances in their May series of marquee sales in New York. ... read more (external link)

03 June 2026

What the May Auctions Revealed About Art as an Asset Class

'Buy something because you love it,' one veteran dealer says. Masterpieces can be sub-par investments. ... read more (external link)

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