I grew up in New York with parents who were early collectors of modern and contemporary art. In the 1970s, I would accompany them to SoHo to visit galleries like Pace, Mary Boone, and Castelli. We walked cobblestone streets, stepped into raw loft-like spaces, and talked about art not as decoration but as a way of seeing and an intellectual pursuit.
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The idea that 18th and 19th century landscape painting could be the setting for one of art history’s fiercest rivalries may seem unlikely, but Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals, the current exhibition at Tate Britain, explores the competitive relationship between two giants of British landscape painting, J.M.W.
This constellation of artists was all occupied with the problem of how to best represent an experience or a three-dimensional subject and all the weight and movement it carried. All these artists believed that there was much more to reality than what the eye had been conditioned to read.
As the final stretch to the Winter Olympics comes into view, the world’s eyes turn once more to the city of Milan. Just weeks after the city closed out its annual Fashion Week, runways are being traded in for ice rinks as athletes and fans descend upon the Italian north for the winter games.
From New York and Detroit to London and Basel, leading museums are staging major exhibitions devoted to canonical modernist masters at a moment when our world is as uncertain and tension-wrought as their early 20th century was. Marcel Duchamp, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol will all be featured in the coming year around the world.
Imagine that you have just purchased the most eye-catching painting you’ve ever seen. It’s a beauty, a canvas glittering with color and that special je ne sais quoi. To art collectors, there’s almost nothing better. But there’s nothing worse than placing your new masterpiece in the wrong frame.
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains,” said Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). In Sacha Guitry’s 1916 silent film, there is a chilling and moving excerpt of Renoir painting. The artist’s hands are severely and painfully crippled by arthritis as he holds a long paint brush and a cigarette.
Before ringing in 2026, the US Senate unanimously approved the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, which extends and expands the original 2016 legislation allowing claims for the recovery of cultural property as a result of Nazi looting during World War II.
While activism and art have long been intertwined, environmental activism and art have a more recent history. Artists have been using their work to call attention to environmental issues since the 1960s, while activists have been using artistic vandalism to draw attention to social and environmental issues since the early 20th century.
