One hundred years after Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, 1904 – New York, 1997) from Rotterdam to the United States, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam symbolically brings one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art back to the Netherlands with one ...
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Antonio Fontanesi, one of the great figuresof 19th-century Italian and European art, returns to Japan 150 years after moving to Tokyo, where he went to teach at the local Technical School of Fine Arts. The Fondazione Torino Musei is dedicating an exh...
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Three major sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, 1925 – Captiva Island, 2008) are joining the ARTIST ROOMS collection, a collection of modern and contemporary art established in 2008 and managed by the Tate in London and the National...
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The old layout of the Fattori Museum in Livorno is gone, finished, no longer exists, and we will never see it again: dismantled before last year’s exhibition on Giovanni Fattori, it has now been completely renovated, transformed, and replaced. ...
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A profusion of gold floods Gustav Klimt’s *Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I* , sweeping through the entire composition like a river of precious metal and immersing the viewer in a dazzling vision. Gold is the undisputed protagonist of the entire...
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The sculpture of Auguste Rodin (Paris, 1840 – Meudon, 1917) takes center stage once again at the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny, Switzerland, with a new exhibition project dedicated to the relationship between art and poetry. From June ...
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A new world record for neoclassical sculpture was set in London. Last night at Sotheby’s, the monumental *Laocoon Hamilton*, a life-size bronze by Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux (Paris, 1790–1843), was sold for 13.6 million pounds, equivalent ...
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An artist’s archive does not merely preserve letters, notes, newspaper clippings, receipts, envelopes, and scattered documents. When systematically examined, it can breathe new life into an entire historical figure, freeing it from the somewhat...
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