Ten French museums and their national scientific laboratory have begun a forensic two-year examination of all the Amedeo Modigliani works in French public collections leaving scholars divided over how it might affect the forgery epidemic plaguing the artist`s market.
The Jeu de Paume photography gallery next to the Place de la Concorde had some of its windows smashed during the `Gilets Jaunes` (Yellow Vest) riots in Paris on Saturday while several other art venues were closed to the public
Italy wants to renegotiate a deal to loan all of its Leonardo da Vinci paintings to France`s Louvre to mark 500 years since his death, Italian media reported on Saturday.
Counter Investigations, an exhibition of work by Forensic Architecture, an independent research agency based at Goldsmiths University London has been named the winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year 2018.
For their first immersive project in virtual reality since the creation of a digital department, the Musee d`Orsay and Musée de l`Orangerie present a 360° experience in VR associated with the Monet Clemenceau focus.
Like other women of her time, Iranian artist Behjat Sadr struggled with recognition in a male-dominated art world. Dusted Waters, a thoughtfully-curated solo show by Morad Montazami at The Mosaic Rooms in London, highlights her trajectory through a number of phases in her life, with the organization of the material and the exhibition spaces facilitating the understanding of her transitions.
The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with New York in the 1980s, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city.
A common eye disorder may help explain Leonardo Da Vinci`s talent for three-dimensional representation and the sense of perspective in his mountain landscapes, according to research published in an academic journal.
Christie`s will offer Pablo Picasso`s La Lampe, 1931 ($25-35 million) as a central highlight of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on 11 November in New York.
A group of Canadian doctors are to begin prescribing trips to an art gallery to help patients suffering a range of ailments become a picture of health.
A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918 – 2018 presents more than 50 works related to this little-known sculptural genre, produced by 30 artists - such as Duchamp, Calder, Neto and Antunes - of 15 different nationalities, across two exhibitions.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective , an exhaustive exhibition of more than 200 sculptures, paintings, and drawings by Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, throughout 40 years of his artistic output.
As soon as we hear the word "bacteria" most of us think of illness and disease, but a fascinating and enlightening new exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History breaks this long-held myth.
In its November 11 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie`s will present two consummate examples by Alberto Giacometti: Femme assise, conceived in 1949-1950 and cast in 1957 ($14-18 million) from a Distinguished Private Collection, and Le Chat – "The Lambert Cat" – conceived in 1951 and cast in 1955 ($14-18 million), which was Formerly In The Johanna Lambert Collection.
