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National Museum of Brazil to Partially Reopen After Fires

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Books of Hours: Collecting Treasures from the Medieval Past

East Hampton Beach, Long Island (1874) by Winslow Homer

The Enduring Legacy of Art and Artists in the Hamptons

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Reevaluating Edward S. Curtis

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Café at Royan, Royan, 15 August 1940, Oil on canvas 97 × 130 cm, Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979.

What’s Online Summer 2025: Art & Object Magazine

Campesinos (Peasants), 1953, John Wilson (American, 1922–2015), Oil on paper, mounted on board. Private collection, Boston. Estate of John Wilson.

What’s Online Spring 2025: Art & Object Magazine

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Renaissance

close up of Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Woman

The Jewelry of the Renaissance: The Medici Gem Collection

The Surprising Muses of Leonardo Da Vinci

Remarkable Art Collecting Families That Shaped the Art World

Design

Ward Lockwood - Horses Grazing, watercolor on paper, 19 x 24 in.

Nedra Matteucci Galleries and Garden: A Must-See Destination

20th-Century Artist-Designer Couples

The Chrysler Building, New York’s Art Deco Monument, Is For Sale

Fair

0. Installation view, Ellen Harvey, Winter in the Summer House, 2025. Part of "What's Missing? Artworks in the Olana Landscape," Olana's summer 2025 outdoor site-specific exhibition. Photo: Peter Aaron / OTTO. Courtesy Olana.

Highlights From Upstate Art Weekend 2025

An Overview of This Year’s Hamptons Fine Art Fair

Highlights from Art Basel 2025

Drawing

Eggplant- Jean Emmons, “Eggplants,” watercolor on vellum, 2020.

Botanical Illustration: Where Science and Art Meet

The History of Copying Art: A Learning Tool or a Cheat?

A Compilation of Sketches in "Picasso: The Royan Sketchbooks"

Latin American Art

Frida Stays Forever, 2020. License

Director Carla Gutierrez Examines Frida Kahlo’s Life Through Film

8 Latin American Artists You Should Know More About

ARTBO Celebrates 20 Years of Colombian Art

Photography

Noah Davis, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 8–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane.

The Life and Art of Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum

World Press Photo Questions Authorship of “Napalm Girl” Image

These Photographers Stunningly Capture Climate Change

Antiques

Euros bills hanging to dry on a clothes line

How Money Laundering Works In The Art World

Art 101: What was Art Nouveau?

Maison Gerard Celebrates 50 Years With Historic Art Deco Pieces on View

Indigenous Art

Installation view, Kaimurai at Blueprint12, Bawwaba, Art Dubai.

Highlights from Art Dubai and UAE Biennials

History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth?

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Highlights Inuit Cultural Identity

Painting

Belluno, Italy. 2019. License

Painting Returned to Museum After Being Stolen 50 Years Ago

Myths and Darkness in Franz von Stuck’s “The Wild Hunt”

Choreographing Beauty: Celebrations of Dance in Art History

Modern Art

Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, 1875-1880

11 Lesser-Known Women Artists from Art History

Cultural Stays: The Prince Kitano & The Arlo Hotels as NYC Art Destinations

Tensions Rise Between David Zwirner and The Hilma af Klint Foundation

Gallery

Kulimushi "Kuli" Barongozi, Time, 2025. For Mrs. Syla Artis Branch. "She was an original, and people knew it."

An Intimate Exploration of Culture and Memory at NXTHVN

The Art of “Anonymous Was a Woman”

The Frick Sustains its Oldest Affair in Vermeer’s Love Letters

Contemporary Art

Squeak Carnwath's studio, February 2022

Squeak Carnwath: Life in Layers of Paint

A Brief History of Milan Design Week

MoMA Names Christophe Cherix as New Director

Black Artists

The exhibition "Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom" in the Hostetter Gallery, 27 February 2025 – 25 May 2025. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Fabiola Jean-Louis on the Language of Fashion

The Whitney Reintroduces Amy Sherald: The New Miss Americana

Jamel Robinson’s Solo Exhibition on Grief and Survival

Asian Art

detail photo of a collection of pottery wares repaired via Kintsugi

Kintsugi Pottery Mending: Fragile Art for the Anxious Mind

Qi Baishi’s Inspiration in Ink: A Culturally Immersive Experience

David Castillo Gallery Showcases Asian Art Through “Alien/ΛᄂIΣП”

Museum

Lower East Side, Manhattan, October 1995. License

Canyon: A New Kind of Museum to Open in New York

National Museum of Brazil to Partially Reopen After Fires

Sargent & Paris: The Early Days of a Painter

Auction

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, c. 1835, oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Turner’s First Exhibited Painting Rediscovered after 150 Years

Marlene Dumas Painting Expected to Break Auction Record

Artists Protest First Ever AI Art Auction at Christie's

LGBTQ Artists

8 - self-portrait in the afternoon light, january 2019, puberty

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

6 Art World Events for Pride 2022

Ancient Art

Still from INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK | Official Trailer.

Archeology in the Movies: What Hollywood Gets Right and Wrong

The Lost Art of Ancient Greece

What Does Cave Art Tell Us About Early Humans?

Women Artists

Dorothea Lange, Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California, 1936

8 Artists Who Took Their Mothers' Names

Ithell Colquhoun at the Tate: A Feminist Take on Surrealism

Artists Who Were Child Prodigies Throughout History

Sculpture

Karen LaMonte (American, born 1967), (Group of) Cumulus (1:8), 2020–2023. Various mediums and sizes. © Karen LaMonte. Photo: Martin Polak.

Karen LaMonte's Sculptures at Munson Museum of Art

Heinz Mack on the Fundamentals of Color, Space, and Motion

Highlights from Frieze New York 2025