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Angelina Jolie sits at a comic con pannel
Angelina Jolie to Sell Churchill's Only WW2 Era Painting
Movie star Angelina Jolie has decided to sell a Winston Churchill painting—a remarkable piece with an intriguing historical context and history of ownership.
The Dying Adonis
Revisiting Magnus Enckell
Master of Finnish Modernism and Gender Pioneer
This rectangular canvas has a white background. Thin rectangles, primarily blue, black, and neon green, populate the image in a manner that evokes a grid as well as woven material. There are also a few arching strips of color, stacked in the manner of a rainbow, that help keep the eye traveling across the painting.
 Young-Il Ahn: Reflection
Kavi Gupta's latest exhibition, Young-Il Ahn: Reflection, memorializes the artist, who passed away unexpectedly in the midst of planning this, his second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Curator walks through gallery of black and white images.
National Trauma and the Impossibility of Forgetting
Paulina Pobocha, associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, talks about one of the “most significant works made during the second half of the 20th century”: October 18,…
Davood Roostaei
Revolutionizing Perspectives: An Interview with Davood Roostaei
Painter Davood Roostaei has lived in many places and had many lives. His work shows the complexity of his experiences, which he has created a new artistic style to be able to fully express–…
Beverly McIver painting of a black woman with striped shadows falling across her face
Revealing "The Light Within": A Conversation with Beverly McIver
Amid the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, artist Beverly McIver listened to her intuition.
Fred Tomaselli collaged painting of a bird lying in green grass with a cloud of snake-like coils rising above it
Altered States: The Transformative Art of Fred Tomaselli
Visually striking, Fred Tomaselli’s multimedia paintings are accumulations of collaged body parts, pharmaceuticals, plant-life, and paint.
Julie Heffernan painting of a woman in a forest with her hair aflame
Unabashed Hotheads: The Self-Portraits of Julie Heffernan
Known for her symbolic use of the nude self-portrait, artist Julie Heffernan’s style can be described as a contemporary mix of Rococo, Surrealism, and Baroque, with a dash of the seventeenth-century…
detail of bomberg city painting
The Lives and Works of William Roberts & David Bomberg
In this short video, join experts at Bonhams as they discuss the lives and works of two 20th century painters, William Roberts and David Bomberg.
Thomas Jones landscape painting of a sailboat on the river wye
National Museum Wales acquires rare early works by Welsh artist
Two recently discovered, rare oil sketches by Welsh artist Thomas Jones (1742-1803) have entered Amgueddfa Cymru’s collection.
Jackson Pollock large abstract expressionist painting
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural is a focused exhibition dedicated to the first monumental painting by American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956).
Qing Dynasty Scroll Detail
Qing Wonder Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century
Marvel at the ingenuity and skill of this Qing Dynasty scroll as we bring to life a masterpiece revered by artists and collectors for hundreds of years.
Claude Monet, Fishing Boats, 1883.
Monet’s Letters Paint a Picture of the Man Behind the Masterpieces
What Monet’s correspondence tells us about the Impressionist master
Elizabeth Siddal is the model in Ophelia by John Everett Millais, 1865-66.
The Women of Pre-Raphaelite Art
More than just muses, the models that made Pre-Raphaelite art a success had artistic ambitions of their own.
detail of matisse divine dancer
Henri Matisse’s Divine Dancer
Unseen since 1949 and set to appear at auction for the first time, this beautiful work is a quintessential example of Henri Matisse’s sensuous odalisques.