Here Are 8 of the Best Works We Saw Around the World in 2023
As another tumultuous year draws to a close, the team at Artnet News took the opportunity to look back at all the art we’ve seen since January. As always, the...
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Henrique Faria On Venezuelan Art and Cultural Persistence
Installation view: Alfredo Boulton’s “The Eyes Of Venezuela” at Henriq1ue Faria in 2024. Photo: Arturo Sánchez As people turn their attention toward Venezuela...
John Wilson’s Enduring Art of Racial Politics and Personal Memory
Growing up near Boston in the 1950s and early 1960s, I picked up the suburban message that the city’s working-class Roxbury neighborhood was for me, as a white...
The Historical Art You’ve Probably Never Seen (opinion)
When the 20th century anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski wanted to debate economics, he went to the most remote islands he could find. His 1922...
NY’s Met bags major modern art injection
Nearly 200 works from the Dada and Surrealist movements, including “Ingres’ Violin” by Man Ray — the world’s most expensive...
The US’s largest Raphael exhibition is opening at the Met next year – The Art Newspaper
Next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the Americas’ largest ever exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520),...
John Singer Sargent’s defiantly queer art
Original artwork by JOHN SINGER SARGENT (from left) MADAME X 1884 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916; Nude study Thomas...
National Gallery Sends Rembrandts, Renoirs and More Across the U.S.
Rembrandt’s A Woman Holding a Pink will be on display in Denver until 2027. Courtesy the National Gallery of Art and Denver Art Museum Angelica Daneo, chief...
On the Met Gala’s Cy Gavin-designed blue carpet, art was front and centre
When it comes to 2025 pop-culture moments, Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show bootcut jeans walked, so the Met Gala attendees’ Black-dandy-inspired...
How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring
Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official...
