BY VICTORIA ROMEO
The Winter Antiques Show, going on now through January 31 at the Park Avenue Armory, has a wide variety of treasures worth checking out.  The annual event serves as both art fair and charity benefit, with some of the proceeds going to the South Bronx not-for-profit organization, the East [...]

OMNP takes a look at some of the highlights of Old Master paintings up for auction this week at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York.
A fantastic selection of works on both sides, however Sotheby’s is offering a veritable cornucopia from all ages and periods; headed up by a Mannerist masterpiece by Hendrick Goltzius, (lot [...]

OMNP highlights select lots from today’s sale of Old Master drawings at Sotheby’s New York. Highlights include a preparatory sketch by the famous sculptor Giambologna who rarely worked from drawings,  fantastical beasts of the underworld by Il Volterrano (lot 20) the efficient use of penmark by Tiepolo  in a preparatory drawing for an altarpiece (lot [...]

Sunday marked the final day for Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus” at the Art Institute of Chicago, before its  departure back across the pond to the National Gallery of London. OMNP had the chance to swoop by the Institute to see it last week, and what an understated pleasure it was.
It’s not as if you would expect a big crowd [...]

OMNP is finding galleries to be clearly outgunning the auction houses for this year’s crop of works for sale at Old Master Drawings Week in New York. Among the highlights below, we see the flair that Delacroix had for equine subjects, in “A Bugler on Horseback, Accompanied by a Hound,” being exhibited by Stephen Ongpin. [...]

BY VICTORIA ROMEO
Amidst the multitude of horrors that characterize World War II, the Nazis’ systematic plundering of some of the world’s greatest works of art is one of the lesser known histories.  The Rape of Europa tells this complex tale and its resonating effects in a compelling and eloquent manner.  The film, released in [...]

BY BLAIR LEAKE
January is the month of short days, little light and grim weather. While most people spend this month hibernating, in eager anticipation of Spring. There is, nevertheless, one event in January which promises to shake weather-intrepid art connoisseurs from their Winter blues. The fourth annual Master Drawings Week (January 23rd-30th) is a showcase [...]

BY  CAROLINE LAGNADO
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, now in its final days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the development of this young country’s identity, and the role artists played in defining it. Culled from 45 prestigious collections, the exhibitions  presents some of America’s fundamental themes: family, community, citizenship, race, and the [...]

BY KIRSTEN BENGTSON-LYKOUDIS
It might come as a surprise to anyone who has never visited Florida’s West Coast to learn from art historian Aaron H. De Groft, that “the only large painting cycle by Peter Paul Rubens outside of Europe” is housed not at a place like the Met or the Getty, but at the John [...]

BY TAYLOR HOBSON
In a post-modern age in which art of appropriation can seem bogged down by its own complacence in referencing the past, Jeff Wall’s scenes have the ability to make sometimes overt quotations from art history without sacrificing any sense of the artworks’ novelty or innovation.  Not all of his compositions directly reference the [...]

OMNP reviews, “Medieval Art and Contemporary Spirit,” at the Richard L. Feigen & Co. gallery in New York