357 articles tagged "contemporary art" / Art movement and style

The collector couple created one of the world's most important collections of African-American art and cultural heritage, bequeathed in part to the...

Günther Uecker's appearance on the French market is a rare event. His works are prized by European and American collectors who are extremely... sha...

The powerful 20th-century works mirror the actor’s personality. Sculpture and Eugène Leroy took center stage.

Dating to the early 1960s, the artist's most sought-after period, this composition hails from the former Michel Gaudet Collection.

For the first time ever, the auction house is taking part in an exhibition at a national museum—an unprecedented event.

"Jean, I’m going to eat you. To take your strength. … Through my new works … you are still here, even though these paintings do not look like you."

With Juan Genovés (1930-2020), one must look beyond the surface to grasp the world’s complexity.

Ensconced in his Aix-en-Provence studio, the Irish-American artist continues exploring the meanders of the abstract art that has been his trademark...

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mamac) in Nice and Thu-Van Tran: a great collaboration which started in 2018, during the group exhibition...

From a new fair in Ibiza to the buzz Hauser & Wirth has brought to Menorca, the trendier-than-ever Spanish archipelago offers a different way to see...

Mayor Jean Bousquet opened the new contemporary art museum in the heart of the ancient Roman city before a crowd of well-wishers on a sunny day in May...

No, the Guggenheim Bilbao is not drowning in Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots. This retrospective dedicated to Kusama probes the various facets of her creative...

For the past 10 years post-war icon, Christopher Wool, born in 1955 in Chicago, has witnessed a lightning ascent in art galleries and cultural institutions following...

The actor is the artistic director of the Music Festival Les Millésimes de Tonnerre (“The Vintage of Tonnerre”) in the Yonne, a French department, which...

Allegories of the Nile and the Tiber, a carnivorous theropod from the Upper Jurassic period and a whispered word.

Who says temptation must be resisted? This sale of 17 carefully chosen lots, including a meteorite, a portrait by Modigliani, and a 154-million-year-old...

The Château du Rivau could well have inspired a few fairy-tale writers with its Renaissance architecture flanked by lofty towers and the atmosphere...

In a perfect world, anything would be possible as the saying goes.

Curator of the Pinault Collection Jean-Marie Gallais sets out to create a mise en abyme of the Villa Carmignac’s island setting. Nestled on the island...

This 1962 oil on canvas by the Gutai master Kazuo Shiraga, which has never come up for sale before, is a performance painting, a hand-to-hand combat...