Lost Claudel Sculpture Sold In Paris For €3.1 Million
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…
Cleveland Museum Agrees To Repatriate
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…
Friedrich’s Soul Of Nature At The Met
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…
Sotheby’s NY Master Works On Paper
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…
Christie’s NY Old Master & British Drawings
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…
Coming Soon: A Brand New Louvre
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…
Forgotten American Mural Unveiled In Mexico
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…
Rick Hendrick And The First 2025 Corvette ZR1 Set A New Record
Rick Hendrick, a man whose name is synonymous with automotive racing, owns Hendrick Motorsports, an American professional car racing organization founded in 1984. He has built a dynasty in NASCAR, with over 250 wins and 14 Cup Series championships to … More…
Garage Sale Van Gogh: Real Or Not?
Some are convinced that an odd-looking painting found at a garage sale in Minnesota might be a lost work by Vincent van Gogh worth $15 million. Around 2016, an individual bought a painting at a Minnesota garage sale for $50. … More…
Sotheby’s Art Of The Americas
The New York auction houses recently concluded a week of American art sales, including the American Sublime sale at Christie’s. Sotheby’s also had its own auction the following day called Art of the Americas. The star of the sale, used … More…
NPG Nepotism?
London’s National Portrait Gallery is coming under fire after some realized that the photographer behind a current exhibition is a donor who significantly contributed to the museum’s recent renovations. Zoë Law is a London-based photographic portraitist who recently opened a … More…
The American Sublime At Christie’s, New York
The 2025 auction season is now starting to kick off. While there have been a smattering of assorted sales earlier in the month, the first sale in the section of the art market relevant to Rehs Galleries took place on … More…
Aaron de Groft, Disgraced Former OMA Curator, Dies At 59
Aaron de Groft, the former museum curator at the center of the Orlando Basquiats scandal, died at age 59. I have written extensively about the scandal of which De Groft was at the center. On June 24, 2022, the FBI … More…
Hockney Retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Later this year, the prestigious Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris will host a new retrospective exhibition dedicated to the great British artist David Hockney. David Hockney got his first retrospective in 1970 and has been the subject of many more … More…
Thou Shalt Be Auctioned
Recently, the Yavne Tablet, a remarkable relic from the late Roman-Byzantine era (circa 300–800 CE), was auctioned off. It is the oldest surviving complete stone inscription of the Ten Commandments. The tablet features twenty lines of Paleo-Hebrew text carved into … More…
Institutions Lean Into AI, Despite Artists’ Objections
The Getty Museum has acquired its very first AI-generated photograph for its collection. This comes despite both ethical and legal concerns about the production and curation of AI-generated works of art. Cristian en el Amor de Calle is an AI-generated … More…