Paul Cézanne, who died in 1906, has been iconic ever since Picasso and Braque picked up and turned his fraught, hard-won way of looking at apples, mountains and people into the broken mirror of cubism, yet his revolutionary importance is less well understood in the 21st century. His portraits turn out to be the key […]
With art-market veterans still reeling from the $450.3 million sale of a Leonardo at Christie’s last night, the usual gang of collectors, dealers, advisers, and auction fans convened tonight at the 57th Street headquarters of Phillips in New York for its November 20th-century and contemporary art evening sale. One Phillips exec joked before the auction that […]
Montreal, Toronto and the funding in the main Canadian cities. Thanks to a tool included in Ontario’s Planning Act known as Section 37, which lets developers trade community benefits for extra height and density, the city’s art holdings have grown with its skyline. But despite the boom, public art policies haven’t changed much since they […]
On Sunday, the Detroit Institute of Arts will present two new exhibitions bundled as one, featuring works by painters Claude Monet and Frederic Church. Though Monet and Church were contemporaries, they were not a part of the same movement. Church was an American, while Monet was a Frenchman. But the two exhibitions augment one another in […]
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