Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, c. 1495–1498 Wikimedia Commons. Second only to the Mona Lisa as Leonardo da Vinci’s most stupendous achievement, The Last Supper (1495–98) is almost as famous for its degraded state as it is for its enduring power. With details barely readable today, it’s a ghost of its original self, suspended in …
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Julia Scher, Danger Dirty Data (1991), installation view of the show “I’ll be Gentle,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper Berlin/Paris/Seoul In 2016, Josh Kline debuted “Unemployment,” a series that explored mass joblessness brought on by technology and automation, and the potential end …
Portrait ofCelia Paul, 2025. © Gautier Deblonde. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro The British artist Celia Paul, known for her moody figurative paintings that often draw from her life, has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums over the past decade—none of them in New York, save for a 2015 show at Gallery …
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The Louvre Museum is closed for the day after a robbery in Paris, France, on October 19, 2025. NurPhoto via Getty Images On Sunday, a group of at least three masked professional thieves smashed into the first-floor gallery of the Louvre in Paris, stealing a series of priceless jewels, including pieces once belonging to Emperor …
A general view of Tate Modern on May 11, 2025 in London, England. Getty Images For those already exhausted at the prospect of Frieze London, the city offers more than the big, circus-like tent in Regent’s Park. This year’s offerings are both broad and cohesive: landmark shows foregrounding Black artistic expression and postcolonial histories sit …
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Kerry James Marshall. Getty Images for MOCA Superlatives have been lavished upon Kerry James Marshall, and understandably so. His acclaimed paintings of the past four and a half decades have challenged the systemic exclusion of Black figures across art history while also protesting racism in the present—no small task, and not an easy one. Perhaps …
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Jackson Pollock in his studio in 1953 Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images Olney Gleason, headed by alums of the former Kasmin gallery, will exclusively represent the work of pioneering Abstract Expressionist painters Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner through the the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The gallery, which opened earlier this year, was founded by Nick Olney and …
Gerhard Richter, Self-Portrait, Three Times, 1/24/90, 1990 Arwork copyright © Gerhard Richter 2025 (01102025). Digital image © copyright Tate, London/Art Resource, New York. In 2017, Gerhard Richter announced that he’d completed the last of his paintings, prompting some to say that he was retiring altogether. This wasn’t the case; he continued to produce drawings, other …
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Seydou Keïta Now celebrated as the father of African photography, Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921–2001) operated a busy studio in Bamako, Mali (until 1960, French Sudan), between 1948 and 1963, a time of radical transformation—from rural to urban and from colonial to postcolonial—both in that country and across Africa. The thousands of people Keïta photographed during …
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Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Photo Michel Urtado/©GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The bicentenary of Jacques-Louis David, who passed away on December 28, 1825, is just around the corner. To mark the occasion, the Louvre presents an exhibition of 100 works by the celebrated French artist. “This anniversary was certainly an opportunity,” the …
