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Anyone familiar with the art market will still recall with shock that day in 2007, when the media-friendly collector Steve Wynn proudly unveiled a voluptuous canvas by Picasso from 1932 entitled "The Dream", only to hit his elbow against the artwork, causing a tear in the canvas. The painting is now part of an extraordinary exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris...

The October 22 program in the Sunday at The Met series will complement the exhibition Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection with a discussion and live demonstration that explore the techniques of bamboo basketry.

The London art market’s major annual event is the Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park sharing the park for the sixth year running with Frieze Masters: 6000 years of history and 130 exhibitors of a more classical nature. The first observation on entering the fair is that the larger art dealers have gone to tremendous efforts...

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is an artist of pleasure and pictorial sensuality. It was with great impatience that we awaited the opening of a Gauguin exhibition in Paris at the Grand Palais. Alas, despite the greatness of this painter-traveller, the exhibition is technical and needy.

How do you define a good fair? A commercial event dedicated to art, which offers such diversity and quality in a single setting that it allows the collector to avoid having to do the rounds of the other next fairs. The 2017 edition of the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) is a feast for the eyes, first and foremost due to its extreme diversity.

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 13, 2017, through February 12, 2018, will present a stunning range and number of works by the artist: 128 of his drawings, 3 of his marble sculptures, his earliest painting, and his wood architectural model for a chapel vault.

The words of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Russian Federation Li Hui about the new special issue “China - Russia: On the Crossroads of Cultures”.

The words of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People’s Republic of China Dr. Andrei Denisov about the new special issue “China - Russia: On the Crossroads of Cultures”.

This exhibition celebrates Shozo Michikawa’s life as a potter, featuring forty ceramics.
n the near future, the new 56th issue of the journal "The Tretyakov Gallery" (#3 2017) will be published. This is a special issue edition of the “Tretyakov Gallery” Magazine from its series “Crossroads of Cultures”, in which the cultural traditions of two great civilizations, Russia and China, are organically combined.

On 11 October an exhibition of 200 artworks opened at the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris to tell the story of Moma in New York, from its opening in 1929 up until its expansion in 2019. It was the perfect opportunity to put five key questions to the head of Moma in New York, Glenn Lowry, who was more than willing to play the game...

Self-Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed (1940–43) was one of his final such works and it serves as a lens to reassess Munch's oeuvre.

The fall 2017 retrospective at The Met Breuer, Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs, will situate Singh's photographic work at the intersection of Western modernism and traditional South Asian modes of picturing the world.

As Indian summer hits Moscow, Garage is deep into installation mode in preparation for the first major survey of Takashi Murakami in Russia which opens this Friday, September 29.

Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 4, presents 60 masterpieces of European drawing spanning the Renaissance to the Modern age.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been named the world's #1 museum in the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice® awards for an unprecedented third consecutive year, making it the only museum to receive the valued ranking for three years in a row.

An American flag. A target. A sequence of numbers. Are these simple subjects for a simple painter? Not at all. Since the 1950s, Jasper Johns' vision is so powerful that paintings of these subjects have now become synonymous with none other than… Jasper Johns.

Chantilly is the name given to a sublime variety of whipped cream, for which France is envied the world over. But it shares its name with another French speciality: a Renaissance château, home to a long forgotten art history treasure trove.

In 1908, The Metropolitan Museum of Art began to excavate late-antique sites in the Kharga Oasis, located in Egypt’s Western Desert.

In an unprecedented collaboration, three major London galleries - the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, and National Gallery - will open three distinct exhibitions of work by artist Tacita Dean (b.1965).










