The course of this global pandemic has left many feeling shattered and searching for distraction. Derived from two small Japanese words meaning golden and joining, kintsugi is fundamentally about ‘beautifully mending a broken thing.’
July 2025 Art News
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci’s most notable works, it would be easy to assume the women behind the Mona Lisa or Lady with an Ermine were his muses. One may therefore be surprised to discover that his pupils, Gian Giacomo Caprotti and Francesco Melzi, have the honor of this distinguishment.
Summertime’s gardens have long inspired artists and botanists. Botanical illustration emerged around the time of Plato, more than 2,000 years ago. The medium launched not as a fine art, but as a record-keeping device and a teaching tool. At the time, botany and medicine essentially were one and the same.
If it’s true that the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long, then Noah Davis is that flame. He arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 21, sold his first painting by the time he was 25, and 400 artworks later, was dead of cancer at 32.
Delmas Howe: The Lithographs, opens on Saturday, July 12, from 6 to 9 pm, at RioBravoFineArt, 110 North Broadway, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. This show includes a complete inventory of Howe’s lithographs plus a limited number of some never-before exhibited sketches from the RioBravoFineArt archives. Although Howe’s lithographs are a lesser-known part of an oeuvre that is almost exclusively painted canvas, his lithographs include some of his most iconic images.
Since its 1996 debut, Pokémon has grown into a worldwide, pop-cultural phenomenon. For Japanese fans, however, Pokémon carries far more cultural significance due to its strong connection to the still widely practiced Shinto faith.
Agora Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of new works by artist Mark Schiff at Booth 219 during the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, taking place July 10–13, 2025 at the Southampton Fairgrounds. This marks an exciting opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to engage with Schiff’s dynamic paintings in a focused solo presentation that underscores the evolution and range of his practice.
After having the highest value-added tax (VAT) rate for art in the European Union, Italy has just reduced it to 5%, the new European low.
Beneath the shade of pine and myrtle, researchers from the Casa della Regina Carolina Excavation (Cornell University; Bologna University; Harvard University) in Pompeii, Italy were hard at work again this summer. One of the project’s main goals this year was to further uncover the ancient garden that was once planted and maintained by the Roman inhabitants.
This modest-size, thoughtful, insightful, and shapely show, celebrating the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, established in 1996 by philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg, is testimony to the Grey Art Museum’s long-time director Lynn Gumpert on the occasion of her well-earned retirement. The gathering was organized by curator, writer, and editor Nancy Princenthal and curator Vesela Sretenovi´c.
