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November 20, 2024
A $6.2 Million Banana: Cattelan's 'Comedian' Goes Bananas Again
Maurizio Cattelan's banana-taped-to-a-wall sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby's — then the crypto-billionaire buyer promp…
November 9, 2024
The Great Mughals: The V&A Conjures an Empire of Splendour
The Victoria and Albert Museum's 'The Great Mughals' immersed visitors in the dazzling art, jewels and painting of one…
October 18, 2024
Art Basel Paris Moves Into the Restored Grand Palais
Art Basel's Paris fair claimed its full name and a spectacular new home in 2024 — the freshly restored, glass-domed Gra…
October 8, 2024
Painting Modern Men: Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay's 2024 Caillebotte exhibition reframed the Impressionist as a fascinating chronicler of masculinity a…
September 14, 2024
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers — The National Gallery's First-Ever Solo Show for Vincent
More than a century after it bought his Sunflowers, the National Gallery finally gave Vincent van Gogh a show of his ow…
September 4, 2024
100 Years of Dreams: Surrealism Turns a Century
In 2024 the art world marked 100 years since the Surrealist Manifesto, with major exhibitions across Europe celebrating…
August 9, 2024
Banksy's Summer Safari: A Wave of Animal Murals Across London
Over nine days in August 2024, Banksy released a new animal artwork across London each day — a goat, elephants, monkeys…
May 27, 2024
The Caravaggio That Almost Sold for €1,500
A painting nearly auctioned in Madrid in 2021 for a few hundred euros was identified as a lost Caravaggio — and went on…
May 14, 2024
Seeing Red: Jonathan Yeo's Striking First Portrait of King Charles III
The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation — a near-monochrome blaze of red by Jonath…
May 10, 2024
London's National Gallery Turns 200 — and Throws Open Its Doors
Two hundred years after a banker's collection became a museum for everyone, the National Gallery marked its bicentenary…
May 4, 2024
Frank Stella, Who Reinvented Abstraction, Dies at 87
Frank Stella, the restless American who moved from severe black stripes to riotous three-dimensional explosions, died i…
May 2, 2024
Michelangelo: The British Museum Follows a Titan Into Old Age
The British Museum's 2024 exhibition explored the final, spiritually charged decades of Michelangelo — through his extr…