The family of Lilly Cassirer, the painting’s owner prior to World War II, has sought to reclaim Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain (1897) from Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection since 2000.
Interviews & Essays
In the early hours of July 18, a fire at the iconic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes shocked France.
Conservators at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) have discovered a treasure hidden in one of their most famous Picasso works.
The FBI recovered paintings in the process of being altered as well as an array of sports memorabilia in a recent raid on a Michigan farm.
Beyond restricting social interactions and physical mobility, global stay-at-home orders impacted the work of contemporary artists around the world in a number of ways.
For over sixty years, experts have searched for a monumental work missing from Frida Kahlo’s oeuvre: The Wounded Table.
In addition to protest art seen around the world, creative facemasks seen on social media and at protests are bringing inspired art to troubled times.
Works of art depicting the natural world have long proven to be a source of escapism for artists and audiences alike, proving that travel doesn’t have to be a physical activity in order to be fulfilling.
For six weeks in 2011, visitors to room 20 of the Parisian Musee d'Orsay didn't know what to look at first—Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde (1866), or the woman copying it at a nearby easel.
