![DEl Kathryn Barton [Australian b. 1972] the more than human love , 2025 Acrylic on French linen 78 3/4 x 137 3/4 inches 200 x 350 cm Framed dimensions: 79 7/8 x 139 inches 203 x 353 cm](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card_187x139/public/ab15211bartonthe-more-human-lovelg.jpg?itok=LJbNuU6F)
Three years ago, when art dealer Christopher Bishop saw a drawing from a private collection, he knew it was something special.
June 2021 Art News
Veronika Molnar, an intern in the Department of Media and Performance, discusses the calming effect—and global influences—of Constantin Brancusi’s 1913 sculpture Mlle Pogany at MoMA.
Before revolutionaries dumped tea in the Boston Harbor or fought Redcoats at Lexington and Concord, early Americans protested British imperialism via utilitarian earthenware bowls, jars, and pots known today as colonoware.
The artist’s first retrospective in twenty-five years explores the arc of Bey’s four-decade-long career. Reflecting the evolution of Bey’s vision, the exhibition examines his enduring engagement with portraiture, place, and history.
In a time when the passion of the crowd has been so sadly missing at sporting events, the pre-match sense of energy and excitement in L.S. Lowry’s ‘Going to the Match’ is more palpable than ever. Painted in 1928, this is one of Lowry’s earliest depictions of crowds thronging to a sporting occasion. That it was a Rugby League match he chose to paint first shows just how deeply entrenched the sport was in the social and cultural fabric of northern England.
At 46, Baltimore-born painter Rosy Keyser has brightened her palette and expanded her purview northward, probing the cosmos with images of abstract celestial bodies rendered in their magnetic relation to one another. On earth, she has been turning sound into substance and is working with cast paper to mimic and sensualize the effect of corrugated steel, a longtime, versatile favorite medium of hers.
The upcoming exhibition, comprised entirely of new artworks created during the 2020 lockdown, delves into the effects of recent international epoch-making events on private life as distilled through the lens of the artist's mind.
Is science a form of art? This is the question that photographer Eadweard Muybridge grappled with in 1887, when he set up twenty-four trip wires to photograph a racehorse galloping with the help of a rather aggressive jockey.
The last 200 years of Russian Art is a true reflection of what was happening in Russia both socially and politically. In this latest episode of Expert Voices, Sotheby’s specialist Reto Barmettler talks about the changes that Russia endured between the 19th and 20th century. Discover how Sotheby’s upcoming Russian Pictures auction (2- 8 June) reflects the breadth of what Russian art has to offer, from 19th century landscapes by Shchedrin and Aivazovsky, post-revolutionary works by Malevich and Puni, Gerasimov’s Soviet era paintings, and more contemporary artworks by Ilya Kabakov and Ivan Chuikov.
"Going back to China, I had to ask myself what’s the worst that can happen? I end up in jail,” Ai tells Art & Object about his decision to return to the country, despite being persona non grata. “I thought, yeah, I can take that. It was easy thinking it, but not in reality."
![Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse]. 1474/1478. Leonardo da Vinci. Oil on Panel. Ailsa Mellon Brue Fund, National Gallery of Art.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_5_column/public/ginevradebenciobverse196761a.jpg?itok=hIzdUTaK)