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COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO 2025 AUCTIONS
While Christie's 2022 sale Visionary: G. Paul Allen Collection, which made $1.6 billion, still reigns supreme as the most lucrative single-owner auction of all time, 2024 had exciting moments of its own.
VERSUS
An exhibition at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden juxtaposes concepts of Modernism and modernity
GOING WITH YOUR GUT
HOW DO MICROBES AFFECT OUR HEALTH? LET'S COUNT THE WAYS...
B.C. NOWLIN & SHARI LYON Skyward
C. Nowlin is, and always has been, unapologetically true to himself. In high school, he got kicked out of art class because he insisted on painting burning buses to illustrate a school field trip.
A Historic Tradition
Salmagundi Club presents the 148th annual exhibition of works in black and white.
Close to Home
For Spencer Simmons, 2018 was a milestone year. Only 24 at the time and a few years after earning a fine art degree from Arizona State University, Simmons won the Donald Jurney Traveling Fellowship which enabled him to paint and study in Europe for several months.
Art for the Soul
The 35th edition of Celebration of Fine Art upholds its mission of connectivity through interactive programming and inspiring artwork.The 35th edition of Celebration of Fine Art upholds its mission of connectivity through interactive programming and inspiring artwork.
Roadside America
This January, Altamira Fine Art will be hosting a solo exhibition for Scottsdale, Arizona-based artist Geoffrey Gersten.
Dream-like Aura
There is something simultaneously haunting and beautiful about the paintings of Stephen Mackey.
FROZEN IN TIME
For the past two decades a floating cosmonaut has appeared as a recurring character in the stilled dramas of Jeremy Geddes’ paintings, an isolated observer examining the urban landscapes of modern municipal bedroom communities, the iconic weightlessness of this airy astronaut emphasizing the lonely emptiness of the cityscape.
Putting the Pieces Together
Americans needed to begin to put the past behind them, come together, and plan for the future in the spring of 1865. But Abraham Lincoln, the man best equipped to lead them and who had hoped to restore the country as smoothly and peacefully as possible, had been assassinated.
A Helping Hand
The spring season is hard in any agricultural society. Plants and animals are too small to eat.
Getting Started
Beginning in April 1861, two armies— both made up of American soldiers—began fighting each other in the Civil War.
PEACE TALKS
The fall of Fort Fisher made clear that the Confederacy’s days were numbered. Southerners were tired and hungry.
LAST SHOTS
The last Confederate forces in the Civil War didn’t surrender in the spring of 1865 or on a battlefield.
If everything the human brain does is basically sets of electrical impulses, how exactly does that translate into a state of mind?
You're not the only one asking this question. Every neuroscientist in the world is wondering the exact same thing, says Zach Mainen
A 12-Year-Old Girl's Election Sticker Is a Winner
VOTING IS A FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM FOR AMERICANS, A MEANS OF DOING ONE'S CIVIC DUTY AND A WAY AN INDIVIDUAL CAN EXPRESS THEIR VOICE. In 1971, the United States lowered its voting age to 18. But that doesn't mean kids and teens under 18 can't participate in elections in various ways.
EARTH'S TINIEST BUILDERS
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF MICROBES IN THE EARTH'S CRUST
MUMMIES SPEAK
ABOUT MICROBES, MIGRATION, AND MORE
Luxury, Rarity, Exclusivity
The Palm Beach Show stuns West Palm Beach, Florida, with remarkable displays of fine art, antiques and jewelry
BUG Detective
A burglar sneaks into a house on a quiet street in New York City. He walks through the house, touching countertops and door handles. Finally, he steals a single card from a full deck. Then he leaves.
RECASTING THE PAST
The Smithsonian explores how American sculpture has shaped the ways generations visualize and conceptualize
Preserving a Legacy
The 70th anniversary of the Washington Winter Show is set for January 10 to 12 in Washington, D.C.
A World of Culture
The Winter Show prepares for its 71st edition, featuring high caliber fine art, antiques and design
Tangible Light
The Mattatuck Museum showcases works of American Tonalism soon to become part of the institution's collection
PASSION PROJECT
Dyana Hesson continues her mission to preserve Arizona's native blooms in paint.
Through the Mirror
It’s been said that art is a mirror for the person looking into it. The viewer sees themselves. Even when the subject doesn’t look like them, or is even human, or is even living. Artists may be painting very specific things from their own being, but the viewer can instantly rewire that to fit their lives with just one glance.
Epic Proportions
Grrowing up on a farm in West Texas, Michael Tole was perusing his family's 1956 Collier's Encyclopedia when the color plates of Baroque paintings caught his attention. Today, he paints inventive Baroque and Rococo figurative extravaganzas that look like they could be part of a Renaissance art collection.
THE ART LOVER'S GUIDE TO COLLECTING FINE ART IN ARIZONA
A barren, inhospitable desert. The Phoenix sprawl. Insufferable heat. Saguaros.
A Sense of Nostalgia
Objects tell stories, going far beyond their practical uses and surface-level beauty. Still life painter Leslie Lewis Sigler is drawn to domestic objects made of precious metals like silverware molds and vessels, “because they have a kind of eternal life.”