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Asian Art

Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1874. Oil on canvas. 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Life and Art of Edgar Degas

Kintsugi Pottery Mending: Fragile Art for the Anxious Mind

Art 101: What was Art Nouveau?

Photography

Noah Davis, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 8–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane.

The Life and Art of Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum

World Press Photo Questions Authorship of “Napalm Girl” Image

These Photographers Stunningly Capture Climate Change

Latin American Art

Frida Stays Forever, 2020. License

Director Carla Gutierrez Examines Frida Kahlo’s Life Through Film

8 Latin American Artists You Should Know More About

ARTBO Celebrates 20 Years of Colombian Art

Gallery

Frankenthaler in her Third Avenue studio with Alassio (1960, in progress), New York, 1960. Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Archives, New York.

The Beauty Behind Helen Frankenthaler’s Art

Examining Humanity Through Eduardo Chillida’s Sculptures

Jeffrey Gibson’s Celebrated Venice Biennale Exhibit at The Broad

LGBTQ Artists

Frances Cranmer Greenman, Self Portrait, 1923. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Jennifer Dasal’s New Book on The American Girls’ Club for Artists

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

Contemporary Art

Alex Anderson ceramic sculpture

Collect Like an Expert: How to Find Great Emerging Artists

Squeak Carnwath: Life in Layers of Paint

Highlights from Art Dubai and UAE Biennials

Drawing

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective (installation view, SFMOMA); artwork: © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., courtesy David Zwirner; backdrop photograph: © 2025 Rondal Partridge Archives; photo: Henrik Kam

Ruth Asawa’s Retrospective of Looped Wires

Botanical Illustration: Where Science and Art Meet

The History of Copying Art: A Learning Tool or a Cheat?

Fair

0. Installation view, Ellen Harvey, Winter in the Summer House, 2025. Part of "What's Missing? Artworks in the Olana Landscape," Olana's summer 2025 outdoor site-specific exhibition. Photo: Peter Aaron / OTTO. Courtesy Olana.

Highlights From Upstate Art Weekend 2025

An Overview of This Year’s Hamptons Fine Art Fair

Highlights from Art Basel 2025

Auction

Digital artwork by Mike Winkelmann showing a giant white and orange torus with greebles in a barren landscape that also features a tree and a man approaching the torus. One of the images used in Everydays: The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann (known professionally as Beeple). License

What Is the Future of NFTs and Digital Art?

Turner’s First Exhibited Painting Rediscovered after 150 Years

Marlene Dumas Painting Expected to Break Auction Record

Sculpture

Installation view of Sam Moyer: Ferns Teeth at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (June 30–September 29, 2024). Sam Moyer, Fern Friend Grief Growth, 2024.

Sam Moyer’s Marble “Paintings” Confront the Mysteries of Nature

Sol LeWitt Sculpture Needs Rebuild After Unannounced Removal

The Art of “Anonymous Was a Woman”

Antiques

Euros bills hanging to dry on a clothes line

How Money Laundering Works In The Art World

Maison Gerard Celebrates 50 Years With Historic Art Deco Pieces on View

Remembering Sanford Smith: Art Lover, Collector, and Businessman

Museum

Crowds in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris

Are Influencers Changing the Museum Experience?

An Inside Look at the History of the Louvre

Emily Sargent’s Introspective Paintings at The Met

Design

The Making of Spider-Man - Marvel Anatomy

Art, Anatomy, and Humanity with Jonah Lobe

A Colorful Exhibition of Hiroshige’s Woodblock Prints

Nedra Matteucci Galleries and Garden: A Must-See Destination

Ancient Art

A replica coin necklace of the Roman Emperor Vespasian by Atelier Divin.

Consider this Before Buying an Ancient Coin Necklace or Jewelry

The Iconography of Zoroastrianism, the Oldest Monotheistic Religion

Etruscan Jewelry and the Charm of Gold in Antiquity

Women Artists

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916, by Robert Henri.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculptor, Collector, Museum Founder

8 Artists Who Took Their Mothers' Names

Ithell Colquhoun at the Tate: A Feminist Take on Surrealism

Painting

Batten, Karin - Ballet, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 66 inches

Karin Batten's "Swimming on Mars": Paintings and Sculpture

Art 101: Impressionism

Northern Lights: A Celebration of Northern Landscapes

Indigenous Art

Merina [Pop Chalee] Lujan, Taos, 1906 – 1993, Yellow Horse, gouache on paper, 13 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (33.3 x 46 cm.) Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000

Indigenous and Native American Art at Santa Fe Auction

History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth?

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Highlights Inuit Cultural Identity

Renaissance

Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse]. 1474/1478. Leonardo da Vinci. Oil on Panel. Ailsa Mellon Brue Fund, National Gallery of Art.

The Theories Behind Da Vinci’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”

Artist Workshops: Their History, Benefits, & Drawbacks

The Surreal Life of Hieronymus Bosch

Black Artists

Kulimushi "Kuli" Barongozi, Time, 2025. For Mrs. Syla Artis Branch. "She was an original, and people knew it."

An Intimate Exploration of Culture and Memory at NXTHVN

Fabiola Jean-Louis on the Language of Fashion

The Whitney Reintroduces Amy Sherald: The New Miss Americana

Modern Art

Plage de la Côte Normande. Blanche Hoschede-Monet (1865-1947). Early 20th century. Oil on Canvas. Musée Blanche-Hoschedé-Monet. Credit: Musée Blanche-Hoschedé-Monet.

The Forgotten Art of Impressionist Blanche Hoschedé-Monet

American Impressionism Takes the Stage at the Tampa Museum of Art

11 Lesser-Known Women Artists from Art History