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Artist Ray Simon of Ohio releases the print “Forged in Freedom” for the US 250th anniversary

In the small hours of Monday, Donald Trump posted an image of a very strange painting, captioned "Great painting!!" and without the artist's name. The canvas heaps together George Washington, the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, an astronaut on the Moon, the Statue of

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Saint Augustine in His Cell

Saint Augustine in his cell. Fresco in the church of Ognissanti in Florence, painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1480

Gilded wooden cross-shaped panel with the crucified Christ and figures of the Virgin and Saint John at his sides, hanging on a museum wall.

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Processional crucifix by an Umbrian painter of 1260–1270 in the Vatican Pinacoteca

Processional Crucifix painted by an Umbrian artist, 1260–1270. Vatican Pinacoteca

In the Press · Art · Observations · Society · Humour

Former Art Basel head Marc Spiegler writes a column on the dangers of commercialising art

I read a column by Marc Spiegler, who ran Art Basel from 2007 to 2022. A comical piece. He laments that galleries are struggling, that the market shrank by some ten per cent in 2024, and that young investors are buying bitcoin instead of paintings. Duremar, having caught a pond

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Education · Saint Petersburg

Elizaveta Zvantseva's art school exhibition at the Museum of Russian Impressionism to 4 October

In the house at 35 Tavricheskaya, one floor below Vyacheslav Ivanov's "Tower", where all Symbolist Petersburg gathered on Wednesdays, a drawing school operated from 1906. The school was founded by Elizaveta Zvantseva, a pupil of Repin and Serov. By the turn of the century the Academy

Coming Up · Art · London · Monarchies

On 1 July Sotheby's in London will offer an amber heart-shaped pendant with a carved portrait of Elizabeth I

The appraisers expect £100,000 to £150,000. Yet last November an anonymous collector bought this pendant at auction in Edinburgh for £5,588, as a mere old article of amber. After careful attribution, the inconspicuous trinket was recognised as a Renaissance jewel bearing a portrait of Elizabeth, which added

Art · Madrid · Museums

"Venus and Cupid" by Peter Paul Rubens, painted in 1606-1611 under the impression of the same subject as executed by Titian

Collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid

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David Hockney and His Painting "Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool" in Los Angeles in 1966

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Jan Gossaert's 1508 journey to Rome and his four surviving Roman drawings

The outstanding Netherlandish painter and draughtsman of the 15th and 16th centuries Jan Gossaert, also known as Mabuse or Johannes Malbodius, travelled to Rome in the autumn of 1508 in the retinue of Philip of Burgundy. Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, had sent Philip as ambassador to Pope

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This week's five exhibitions on time, and on how the living and the man-made deceive it

This week's five exhibitions are about time, and about how the living and the man-made deceive it. There is an artistic dynasty across four generations, newsreel film that stopped the moment, the faces of the theatre, deception as an engine of evolution and, to make up the

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“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by the French artist Georges Seurat, 1880s

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Daniil Kudryashov gathers speed at the exhibition of the project “Everything Will Stay Between the Houses” by the Shapito gallery, shown in the space of the Korney gallery