One of the joys of spending time in a record store is not knowing what to choose. For those who go in “just to have a browse,” the risk is to spend hours flipping through countless records. Yet, the quest might end when your eyes get caught by an image, a design, or a color on one of the covers. The art created for record covers is revelatory: it presents the artist, their music, and the ideas behind that particular album.
Art News
By the time the British Museum’s doors opened to ticket holders for a lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah on June 11, the event had already been postponed once and embroiled in a fierce debate over institutional barriers to free speech.
On May 14, 2025, Miss January, an oil on canvas by the South African artist Marlene Dumas, sold at Christie’s New York for $13.6 million, the highest price ever achieved at auction by a living female artist. Dumas’s painting had been consigned by Mera and Don Rubell, founders of the Rubell Museum in Miami, and the proceeds of the sale will allow the couple to continue collecting and supporting emerging artists.
On a quiet residential corner in the Coyoacán section of Mexico City sits the cobalt blue house where Frida Kahlo was born, painted, and lived for more than four decades. The Casa Azul is at once a home and a monument: its courtyard garden hums with fountains and dappled shade, while its rooms hold the intimate wreckage and triumph of a singular life.
Categorized as an Old Master within the canon of art history, Sir Peter Paul Rubens' work is characterized by a high concentration of color, movement, and form. Surpassing visual dynamism, many of his masterpieces aptly convey key socio-religious conflicts of the period.
Experience the wonder of summer through an enchanting exhibition at Munson Museum of Art in downtown, Utica, NY. Watercolor Stories: The Art of Charles E. Burchfield opens Friday, June 12, and remains on view through September 13.
The backroom work of conservation is increasingly becoming a form of public engagement and education at museums that have turned the restoration of their greatest works into forms of theater. Conservators lean in with swabs of cotton and tiny brushes to restore paintings inch by inch, while museumgoers peer through plexiglass as if at the zoo.
It has been roughly 10 years since data artist Refik Anadol opened his studio in Los Angeles, leaving an indelible mark on the city.
Joan Miró, the Catalan painter, had a successful retrospective at MoMA in 1941 and an exhibit with his dealer, Pierre Matisse (Matisse’s son), in 1945. Miró first visited the United States in 1947—one of seven visits to the States—and was included in the New American Paintings at MoMA in 1991.
Orphism seemed to stem from Cubism, in part, because it shared the desire to break down solid objects and challenge human perceptions of time, space, and volume. And yet, this “offshoot” of Cubism specifically placed color and lyricism at center stage.
