Lady Emma Bennet, an 18th-century aristocrat and plant enthusiast, amassed a collection of botanical paintings that remain a gem in the Kew Gardens archives. Despite efforts to preserve her collection, little was known about the botanist and discreet scientist until a historian…
Featuring pieces by Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Dorothea Tanning, 25 works from a San Francisco Bay Area collection will be auctioned at Christie’s in London in the coming months. The unnamed couple who amassed the collection over two decades became inspired…
The acclaimed actor earns millions from his celebrity portraits featuring Bob Marley and Heath Ledger. Having long captured the public’s attention with his high-profile film roles, growing musical ventures, and a highly-publicized recent divorce, Johnny Depp is now making headlines for the…
The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte’s work, believed to be a tribute to Vermeer, is among the key items for auction at Sotheby’s “Surrealism and its Legacy” sale in Paris on March 15th. Magritte’s La Leçon de Musique, from a Belgian private…
The use of art collections as collateral for loans is a rapidly growing sector as the worlds of finance and art converge. There are two main players in this market: specialist lenders and banks. Sotheby’s Financial Services is a leading specialist lender…
A new report by Artsy reveals that female artists only accounted for less than 10% of total art sold at auction in 2022, totalling $1 billion out of $11 billion. Despite the presence of women artists in art publications, exhibitions, and discussions,…
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious award in the field, has been awarded to British architect and city planner David Alan Chipperfield. He was honoured on Tuesday for his “commitment to an architecture that brings forth a transformative civic presence with…
According to one of its founders, a collaborative art initiative in two hospitals aims to enhance the well-being of patients and staff. The “take heART” project, launched by the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages Bedford and Luton & Dunstable Hospitals, seeks…
A sketchbook filled with drawings created by Queen Victoria will be rejoined with many of her other artworks in the Royal Collection Trust’s collection. The book was originally slated to be sold at an auction by Charterhouse Auctioneers in Sherborne, Dorset, for…
El Morgan, a fine art lecturer at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, has opened an exhibition to make sense of her experiences with IVF. After giving birth to twins in 2019, Morgan continues to pay to keep frozen embryos from her 2018 IVF…