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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Chasing Light: Artists and Collectors in the Summer Season

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Artists with A Summer Palette One of the greatest joys of the summer season is the way the landscape changes into a kaleidoscope of colours that come to life in the season’s shimmering sunshine and long shadows. Artist Pierre Bonnard exemplified this palette-powered energy. Fairfield Porter – Girl in a Landscape.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Art Newspaper

In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. The history of the Kunsthalle has been a very Eurocentric, very white history,” she says.

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Nadira Azzouz – An Iraqi Woman Artist Rediscovered

Mark Hill

Early in 2020, I bid on and bought a mid-century modern abstract oil on board painting at auction totally sight-unseen, because it looked like it might be the work of an artist I collect right now. Stupid, I know, for all the reasons and especially stupid because, when I went to collect it, it wasn’t by the artist I collect at all.

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Selling American Paintings to Buyers Doesn’t Have to be Hard. Read These 5 Tips

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

It has a wide array of influences and draws on traditions from Europe, Native Americans, Africa, and Asia. American art collectors can be a diverse lot and they take a wide-ranging interest in artists ranging from John Singer Sargent to Georgia OKeefe. The fame of the artist also plays an important role in the paintings value.

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In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited section offers visions of utopia

The Art Newspaper

It’s also about being an artist.” David Owens Alia Farid Elsewhere: Cuba (2025) Sfeir-Semler “Farid is one of the important artists from the Middle East. David Owens Andrea Büttner Shame Punishments (2022-25) Hollybush Gardens, David Kordansky, Jan Mot, Tschudi “Büttner is well-known for her prints and a real artist-researcher.

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The Beauty of Botanical Illustration: Capturing the Flora of the Natural World

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Botanical illustrations offer a unique combination of scientific study and artistic allure. Pietro Andrea Mattioli – 4 folios from “Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedacius Dioscorides Anazarbeus on Medical Material,” 1565. Sold for $60 USD via Ripley Auctions (February 2024).