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Artemisia Gentileschi: Painting Power in a Man’s WorldInternational Women’s Day serves as a powerful reminder for the art world to look again — and look more carefully — at the women who altered its course. Few figures demand that reconsideration more forcefully than Artemisia Gentileschi. A master of the Italian Baroque whose career spanned Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, and London, Artemisia transformed…
Art Guide, Art Market
Access, Power, and the Price of Participation – Art and Money Series Part 4In the last installment of ARTDEX’s Art and Money series, Why Art Valuation Is Never Just About Money – Art and Money Series Part 3, we challenge the idea that art valuation is simply about price. Moving beyond sticker shock and surface-level complexity, we reveal how art prices function as signals of confidence, trust, and…
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Why Art Valuation Is Never Just About Money – Art and Money Series Part 3Series Recap: From Sticker Shock to Structural Reality In Part 1, Why Is Art So Expensive?, we examined the initial reaction many people have when encountering famous artists’ art prices — sticker shock, disbelief, and the assumption that prices are inflated or arbitrary. In Part 2, Why It’s Complicated, we moved beyond surface reactions to…
Art World
Wifredo Lam: Decolonizing Modernism – A Vision Whose Time Has ComeThere are moments in the life of museums when an exhibition does more than bring together a celebrated body of work; it shifts an axis. Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream at the Museum of Modern Art reminds us that modernism was never a monolith — and that the imagination, when rooted in…
Art Market, Art World
Eternal Blue in the Realm of IKB: Yves Klein’s Vision Beyond the VisibleIn a dazzling Paris evening sale in October 2025, Yves Klein’s monumental California (IKB 71) (1961), a fourteen-foot expanse of pure ultramarine, sold for €18.4 million (about $21.4 million), the highest price ever paid for the artist in France. The work, created just a year before Klein’s untimely death, stands as both an apex of…
Art Guide, Art World
The Art of Blur: Man Ray and the Forgotten Movement Between Dada and SurrealismThe overlooked “blur” that linked Dada’s chaos with Surrealism’s dreamworld “Man Ray,” the poet André Breton once said, “is the quintessential modern artist — free, inventive, and forever unclassifiable.” That slipperiness is exactly what the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream brings into focus. Rather than slotting the artist neatly into…