10/26/2019. To judge by the marketing hullabaloo, the Leonardo da Vinci retrospective that opens here Thursday at the Louvre should be the visual equivalent of a 21-gun salute and a trumpet-and-trombone choir. Blockbuster’s plastered all over it, and rightl...

10/26/2019. This autumn, an exhibition by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of the 20th-century’s most influential artists, is on view at the Lady Lever Art Gallery as part of Wirral ...

10/26/2019. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead to charcoal drawings to satisfy portrait com...

10/26/2019. Ingo Maurer, a German lighting designer who was Promethean in his delivery of illumination — fashioning lamps out of shattered crockery, scribbled memos, holograms, tea strainers and incandescent bulbs with feathered wings — died Monday in ...

10/26/2019. A vote this month over one of New York City’s new, more inclusive monuments became so combative — with audience members shouting “How dare you!” — that the acclaimed artist who won the commission walked away from the job. ...

10/27/2019. Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana trained in Cremona and Bologna respectively; two geographically close artistic centres but ones characterised by their particular artistic, social and cultural traditions. They came from different types of fam...

10/27/2019. The Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala, Intesa Sanpaolo’s museum in Milan, presents the exhibition Canova and Thorvaldsen: The birth of modern sculpture, on display...

10/27/2019. Her somber gaze is direct, and in her lap, she firmly holds a book. The circa 1855 daguerreotype portrait of Lucy Stone, the suffragist and abolitionist, is powerful in its simplicity. Not surprisingly, Stone’s mission was incited by the ineq...

10/27/2019. This October, The Phillips Collection opened Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life–The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant. This presentation, planned in con...

10/27/2019. Renoir: The Body, The Senses is the first major exhibition ever to focus on the artist's lifelong treatment of the nude. The exhibition, debuting on the centenary of the artist's death, provides new perspectives about Renoir's stylistic trajectory th...

10/27/2019. Today, Independent announced a new collaboration with OBJECT & THING debuting at next year’s Independent in New York: a collaborative presentation that builds upon Independent’s h...

10/28/2019. On Friday, November 8 Rago brings to auction a significant collection of over 100 paintings, sculptures, mixed-media, and works on paper from the es...

10/28/2019. The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition combining a six-decade retrospective of Duane Michals with an artist’s-choice selection of works from all corners of the permanent collecti...

10/28/2019. Qatar Museums is presenting KAWS: HE EATS ALONE, the first museum show in the Middle East dedicated to Brian Donnelly (b. 1974, USA), known professionally as KAWS, at the Fire Station: Artist in Resid...

10/28/2019. The Quest for Happiness – Italian Art Now presents a selection of the most interesting Italian contemporary artists following the scarlet thread of the pursuit of happiness. The majority of them have never exhibited in Finland before. For ma...