Art News

On July 19, New Orleans Auction Galleries' Fine Art Auction will host its annual Modern and Contemporary Fine Art Auction. The sale will feature works by artists such as Fernand Leger, Milton Avery, Martha Walter, Dorothy Hood, Louise Nevelson, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Yvonne Canu, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Toots Zynsky, Olaf Wieghorst, Futura 2000, Lin Emery, Wolf Kahn, William J. McCloskey, Enrique Alferez, Ida Kohlmeyer, George Dureau, Laurie Simmons, Salvador Dali, Ashley Longshore, Alexandra Nechita and George Rodrigue among many others.

Artists have abandoned artworks for many reasons throughout history. Guest host John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks and explains why they resonate with him so deeply. Featuring work by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, Alice Neel, Kerry James Marshall, and very many presidential portraits.

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.

The Vikings are coming... again! In 2014 The British Museum followed on from the success of Pompeii Live with another live broadcast- this time from the exhibition Vikings: life and legend. Here is that broadcast, presented by Bettany Hughes and Michael Wood, featuring the largest Viking warship ever found, Roskilde 6 along with interviews with Viking scholars from across the world. Michael and Bettany explore the viking world from the homelands to its farthest reaches, Viking ship craft, trading, warfare and religion are brought to life through the spectacular objects that were brought together for this blockbuster exhibition.

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.

As art exhibitions have begun to reopen amidst the continuing coronavirus pandemic, we’ve discovered that a number of American galleries are highlighting abstraction, even though figuration is what’s generally trending today.  Whether it’s a stylistic shift or merely a coincidence, we’ll have to wait and see in order to further evaluate, but what we can uncover now is that regardless of gender or age, abstraction still holds a fascination with artists and continues to convey a pictorial language that takes viewers beyond their day to day existence.

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.

In new community guidelines released this week, Facebook announced a new policy meant to halt the sales of looted artifacts on its platform.

Influenced by the movements of color field and action painting, Francine Tint’s paintings are the result of a process of disclosure, drawn from her own life events, dreams, and literature.

From the anatomical features of Da Vinci to the fractured features of modernist portraiture, the human head has reigned supreme in Art History.