A bronze sculpture by Camille Claudel thought to have been lost for over a century sold in Paris for €3.1 million. Recently, I feel like the art world has been reanalyzing the work of great female artists, especially those who, … More…

The Cleveland Museum of Art is sending a Roman bronze statue back to Turkey after finally acknowledging the work was likely looted. In September 2023, I first wrote about how the Cleveland Museum of Art became the target of the … More…

On Saturday, February 8th, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened a new exhibition focusing on the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Despite Friedrich’s importance and widespread popularity, the exhibition, entitled The Soul of Nature, is the … More…

The results of Classic Week at the New York auction houses have been somewhat mixed. While the main Old Master and nineteenth-century paintings sales at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s were somewhat disappointing, the same cannot be said for the Sotheby’s … More…

The Old Master and British Drawings sale at Christie’s kicked off the Classic Week of nineteenth-century and Old Master sales being held at the New York auction houses starting on February 4th. This sale was highly anticipated mostly because of … More…

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the Louvre will undergo extensive renovations, including placing the Mona Lisa in its own gallery, for which visitors will be charged extra. The Louvre is home to roughly half a million works of art … More…

A 1934 mural by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at a regional museum in Mexico has been fully restored. The Struggle Against Terrorism is a 1000-square-foot mural the two young artists created for the museum. Both the mural itself and … More…