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20 August 2025

Why You Should Know Maruja Mallo, the Artist Who Redefined Spanish Modernism

Once hailed as Spain's greatest woman artist of the 20th century, Maruja Mallo's impressive career has been overlooked in recent decades but that's starting to change. A bold new touring retrospective is reviving the legacy of this fearless modernist whose surreal, geometric, and socially charged works defied the norms of her time. ... read more (external link)

20 August 2025

The Tragic Ophelia Epitomized Pre-Raphaelite Beauty. Here Are 3 Facts You Might Not Know About the Mesmerizing Painting

Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare's Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia reignited the Victorian imagination in paintings, poetry, and plays. Among the eras many Ophelias, none proved so indelible as Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais's richly detailed rendering of the tragic heroine drowning. Now in the collection of the Tate, Ophelia (1851-52) is one of the defining images of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, encapsulating the Brotherhood's emphasis on vibrant color, exacting detail, and literary themes. ... read more (external link)

20 August 2025

Four New York Cultural Institutions Bring Art to JFK International Airport

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and JFK Millennium Partners (JMP) will collaborate with four New York cultural institutions to bring art into John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 6 at a cost of $4.2 billion. ... read more (external link)

20 August 2025

Auction Houses Are Plugging the $3 B. Gap Left by Tanking Art Sales with Luxury Proceeds

At Sotheby's Paris last month, a battered secondhand Hermes Birkin bag sold for a record-setting $10 million. The sale marked the highest price ever paid for a handbag albeit a prototype owned by late fashion icon Jane Birkin but compared to the wider luxury goods market, which consulting firm McKinsey estimates at more than $330 billion annually, it's a drop in the bucket. ... read more (external link)

06 August 2025

How Dinosaur Bones Became Billionaires' Collectibles

Dinosaurs are dominating this summer's headlines. The Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic World Rebirth is powering through the global box office with $718.4 million earned worldwide as of Sunday, while July's sale of a juvenile Ceratosaurus fossil at Sotheby's New York has also been in the news. ... read more (external link)

06 August 2025

Museums in New York and Los Angeles receive collection of 63 Modern works

The Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will receive a collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and modern works belonging to the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. ... read more (external link)

06 August 2025

How to Feel Confident Visiting an Art Gallery, According to Gallerist Hannah Traore

Visiting commercial galleries is one of the easiest ways to encounter contemporary art. They're free to enter and feature rotating shows of curated artworks, making them a crucial part of how art is circulated and discovered. ... read more (external link)

06 August 2025

Inside Pauline Karpidas's Legendary Surrealist Collection Bound for Auction

Art collectors are many but patrons are increasingly rare and Pauline Karpidas certainly falls into the latter group. Known for her deep collecting of Modern and contemporary art, as well as her generous support of rising British artists, she has often been likened to previous grand dame collectors like Peggy Guggenheim and Dominique de Menil. ... read more (external link)

30 July 2025

Renoir's Long-Hidden Drawings Return to the Spotlight After 100 Years

More than 100 drawings, pastels, watercolors, and prints by the French painter are going on view at the Morgan Museum and Library. ... read more (external link)

30 July 2025

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim-Era Plaza Suite Sells for $18.9 Million

In 1954, construction was about to begin on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. It had been a long journey for its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who spent the good part of a decade wrangling with Guggenheim over the structure's now-iconic spiral design and with city authorities over building permits. Now, with his ambitious design set to be realized, Wright decamped Wisconsin for New York, setting up an office at a suite in the Plaza Hotel. It would be his home away from home for the next five years. ... read more (external link)

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