Author: Adeline Brooks

The exhibition, which opens on January 20 over two floors of the gallery at 980 Madison Avenue, features art from Twombly’s final decade of life. Making Past Present: Cy Twombly, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, runs from January 14 through May 7, 2023, and is co-curated by Gagosian. Making Past Present juxtaposes Twombly’s work with ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern items from the museum, as well as objects from the artist’s own collection, to illustrate Twombly’s involvement with the art, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean. Twombly returned to large-scale painting in the 2000s, working…

A mysterious portrait found in a Maine attic, attributed to Rembrandt’s era, sold for $1.4 million at Thomaston Place Auction, far exceeding its $10K $15K estimate. A mysterious portrait, possibly linked to the Dutch master Rembrandt, was discovered in an attic in Camden, Maine. Despite uncertainty about its authenticity, the unsigned painting stirred excitement among art collectors, eventually selling for a stunning $1.4 million at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. The sale exceeded initial estimates of $10,000 $15,000 by a staggering margin. The painting, which portrays a teenage girl dressed in a black robe with a white collar and cap, was…

After decades on the margins of art history, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani a collagist of singular, inimitable vision is finally having his story told, though not in any linear fashion.  The late artist is currently the subject of a solo exhibition on view through June at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas among the first serious institutional examinations of his practice. Co-curators Maki Kaneko and Kris Imants Ercums have organized the exhibition thematically rather than chronologically, echoing Mirikitani’s collage like life: an accumulation of pivotal events in which the past continually presses upon the present, from the atomic bombing of his hometown, Hiroshima, to…

The National Museum of Asian Art planned to open “Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” on November 8 right as the longest federal government shutdown in US history brought the Smithsonian to a standstill. Visitor services halted, publicity froze, and the museum lurched into crisis management. Yet behind locked doors, curators and art handlers who were still allowed to work—continued quietly installing celadons, Buddhist paintings, palace screens, and modernist canvases. That the opening was delayed by only a few days feels emblematic: “Korean Treasures” is ultimately about what persists through war, colonization, ideological division, and now even the precarities of contemporary US federal…

Michelangelo’s earliest known drawing, Study of Jupiter, resurfaces after 35 years and will be offered for sale at the Florence Biennale, reigniting interest in his early works. Art enthusiasts and collectors have a rare opportunity to acquire what is now believed to be the earliest known drawing by Renaissance master Michelangelo. The artwork, titled Study of Jupiter, is making its way to the market for the first time in 35 years. This significant piece of art history will be offered at Italy’s 33rd Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze (International Biennale of Antiques) by the Dickinson gallery, based in London. The sketch, which depicts the…

Picasso’s Femme au violon finds a permanent home at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne, thanks to a joint effort by German cultural institutions and private benefactors. Pablo Picasso’s renowned cubist painting Femme au violon has officially found a permanent home in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Announced on September 14, 2024, by Bavarian Arts Minister Markus Blume, the acquisition marks the culmination of years of negotiations and collaborations between German cultural institutions, private patrons, and political bodies. The painting had been on loan to the museum since 2014 but will now remain in Munich thanks to the collective financial support of foundations and benefactors. The Femme au…

John Kelsey, a noted art critic, provides an insightful commentary on Guyton’s latest work. In one of his new paintings, Guyton ingeniously transforms the digital interface of the New York Times into a tangible, ink-laden canvas, a medium many of today’s viewers may not have encountered. The artist’s work brings to life the digital news, complete with timestamps like ‘two minutes ago’, in a strikingly physical form. Guyton’s paintings are a vibrant mix of hyper saturated colors, enhanced in Photoshop, that make news about global leaders, weather, and data theft appear vividly real. His work challenges our perception of news, asking us…

Faris Rozlin is a Malaysian artist whose relationship with painting and drawing began at a very young age. For him, drawing has always been an inseparable part of life, much like a beach and the sea that naturally exist alongside one another. Beginning his artistic journey seriously at the age of seven, Faris initially developed his skills through cartoons and comics before gradually expanding his practice into abstract and expressionist art. Over the years, his creative language has evolved from early figurative interests toward more experimental and emotionally driven compositions. Influenced by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Rauschenberg,…

Christie’s Hong Kong debut features a rare Claude Monet Nymphéas painting, marking its first auction appearance and the launch of the auction house’s new Asia Pacific headquarters. Christie’s is set to make a historic debut in Hong Kong this September, unveiling its new Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson building with a landmark auction. The highlight of this inaugural sale, scheduled for September 26, will be one of Claude Monet’s iconic Nymphéas paintings, a rare water lily work that has never before appeared at auction. Created 125 years ago, this early masterpiece is expected to fetch between HK$200 million and HK$280 million ($25…

By my count, there are at least three flying people included in Pittsburgh’s recently opened Carnegie International. One can be found in Khalil Rabah’s video Critical Interrogations: Renewed Belief (1997), in which one man is launched by another over an olive tree, a symbol of resilience in the artist’s native Palestine. Another can be found sort of in Shala Miller’s video installation Flight (2026), a murky abstraction projected onto sinuous screens hung from the ceiling. That video is inspired by Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon, whose titular character is an enslaved man who flew back to Africa. The third flying person appears in archival footage…