OMNP has been bubbling recently over the paintings of Anne Connell. Our colleague Stephen Ongpin just turned us on to some of her recent Renaissance-inspired work, which will be exhibited at his London gallery this upcoming Monday, November 2nd through Saturday, November 21st.
Formalist concerns have been ever apparent in contemporary painting’s dialogue with Old Masters. The gravity of past artistic greatness weighs [...]

As the feature of an exhibition,16th century religious altarpieces by Paolo Veronese can make for arcane subject matter. This is all well and good for the Old Masters connoisseur. But how does one reach the interests of the masses, whose knowledge of art history is scant at best?
Such an exhibition is currently ongoing at the [...]

These days, announcements of Leonardo discoveries are rather routine. Details surrounding two of the latest cases however-the sudden cooperation of the notorious Italian bureacracy on a long delayed Leonardo excavation, and the use of forensic technology to confirm a previously dubious claim, continue to have us expecting the unexpected.
In 1563, [...]

Families murdered, judges assassinated, and a masterpiece ruined…in a tale fit for a Scorcese flick, Jonathan Jones spares none of the gruesome details surrounding one of the most notorious art crimes in history: the theft of Caravaggio’s “Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence.”
The masterpiece that may never be seen again [Jonathan Jones, Guardian UK]
Caravaggio, [...]

Health care reform may be dead in the water, but at least the ripple effect of a new US administration has stirred up some priceless works of art. In a motion symbolizing the “strong ties of friendship that continue to bind both countries,” the French Embassy has made the gracious decision to give one of [...]