Art News

Stock exchanges have been offering the public a piece of corporate earnings since the Dutch East India Company opened one in 1602, but only recently has art become a tradable security. Half a dozen or so investment firms specializing in art shares have been steadily evangelizing the potential financial benefits of owning a stake in otherwise out-of-budget works. 

Acclaimed Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton (1972)– two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, the most prestigious portraiture prize in Australia– has a solo show opening in October at New York’s Albertz Benda gallery. Del Kathryn Barton: the more than human world runs October 30th through December 13th and features two new bronze sculptures and a series of new 

The Mint Museum is proud to present a major exhibition exploring the artistic and cultural revolutions of 19th-century Europe. Renaissance, Romanticism, and Rebellion: European Art from the Smith-Naifeh Collection brings together more than 70 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, and works on paper—offering visitors a rare opportunity to view one of the most distinguished private collections of European art in the United States. 

A longtime presence on the San Francisco art scene, Rowland Weinstein founded Weinstein Gallery in 1992. The gallery, which specializes in non-objective and Surrealist art from the pre–World War II period in Europe through Abstract Expressionism and the New York School, is dedicated to the rediscovery of marginalized artists and to the idea that art should be accessible to everyone.

The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt centers on the popularity of the Jewish heroine Esther in Dutch art. Celebrated for delivering her people from genocide, this Queen of Persia strategically revealed her previously hidden Jewish identity to her royal husband, convincing him to foil his advisor’s plot. Michele L.

Amid reports of the auction market’s steady decline, Sotheby’s has clinched a collection from the estate of Leonard Lauder valued at more than $400 million.

Born in England, formed as a surrealist in Paris, residing in Mexico since 1942, Leonora Carrington had her first solo exhibition in New York in 1948. It was held at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, arranged by her patron, Edward James, an eccentric English collector who also championed the work of Salvador Dalí.

Young Maurice Golubov was an unlikely candidate to become a famous American artist. Born in 1905 in Vetka, a small town in Tsarist Russia to an Orthodox Jewish family. One of six children, he came into this world during a pogrom and his mother, with her newborn, sheltered in a basement for several days. When he was six he found a copy of Gustave Doré’s famous Le Grande bible de Tours (1866) in a barn, sumptuously illustrated with 241 wood engravings.

On August 16, 1972, at Riace Marina on the south coast of the Italian boot, amateur diver Stefano Mariottini reported to the local Carabinieri station the presence of archaeological finds which he had stumbled upon while underwater fishing. Five days later, two of the most precious remnants of the ancient world emerged from the Ionian Sea: bronze giants almost two meters tall, surprisingly intact. 

Known as the Renaissance's greatest sculptor, Michelangelo was often commissioned to apply his talents to other mediums such as painting and architecture.