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Featuring 283 top galleries from 43 countries and territories, the 2025 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach returned to the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 3 to 7, welcoming over 80,000 visitors— including representatives from more than 240 museums and foundations— during its VIP and public days.

The Art Dealers Association of America’s (ADAA) decision to shutter The Art Show and launch a new fair in November 2026 marks a quiet end to one of the art world’s longest-running philanthropic partnerships. ADAA Fair will assume the original show’s home in New York’s Park Avenue Armory and channel proceeds to both the organization’s

With its origins in late Medieval art and religious culture, the word “Gothic” conjures the dark, the mysterious, or the otherworldly. A international exhibition, Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light, not only broadly explores such popular associations but also provides a ground-breaking examination of later 19th- and early 20th-century artistic fascinations with the era, all while complicating traditional narratives of the history of Modernism.

As the hype fades following the record-breaking $54.7 million sale at Sotheby’s in November 2025 of Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, El sueño (La cama), becoming the most expensive artwork by a female artist ever sold at auction, let’s pause and consider the facts.

Born in the late nineteenth century, Modernism sought to challenge conventional institutions of its time. The late nineteenth century saw a shifting European political structure, with the birth of nation-states rising from the ashes of empires. This period was also significant in academic achievements and rapid industrialization.

Echoing a pilot program launched in 1950, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will now allow cardholders to borrow select pieces of art for up to three weeks, as of November 3rd.

Leonardo Drew is the embodiment of form and content. His expansive personality explodes with associations and ebullience; so does his art. “Superadditive,” he calls it. There really don’t seem to be any limits to his art, which is free-form yet meticulously crafted.

While Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer was sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million after a 20 minute bidding war, a solid gold toilet, titled America by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, drew far less fanfare at Sotheby’s recent auction.

As empires fell and made way for nation-states, dissolving Medieval social structures, rapid industrialization led to the development of Realism, a period from the mid-to-late nineteenth century that rejected the conservative and elitist structure of the Neoclassical movement that had ruled since the Renaissance.

Last summer, a small American museum made history by becoming the first institution in the country to return one of the fabled Benin bronzes. Officials of the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art traveled to Benin City, in southern Nigeria, to meet with the Oba, the hereditary ruler of the Edo people, and formally hand over one bronze plaque, as well as a wooden altarpiece, both of which had been in the museum’s collection for decades.