A stunning painting by one of the world’s most celebrated artists has gone on display this weekend (Friday 8 June) at the Ulster Museum. Amedeo Modigliani’s 1916 masterwork, Female Nude, is noted as one of the most arresting and powerful works of the early 20th century. Modigliani’s Female Nude is on loan from The Courtauld Gallery and is part of an ongoing collaboration which aims to share The Courtauld’s collections with audiences across the UK, particularly in areas where Courtaulds Ltd. once had a significant industrial presence. In Northern Ireland, its major factory opened in Carrickfergus in 1951 and at its height employed 2,000 people. The Modigliani painting takes centre stage with other works from National Museum NI’s collections, each of which explores the relationship between artist and sitter. Alongside the Modigliani are works including William Orpen’s Resting (1905), Study of Elizabeth Sidd

From June 8 to September 12, 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the work of the Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966)—the first major museum exhibition in the United States in more than 15 years dedicated to the Swiss-born artist. Installed within the museum’s rotunda, Giacometti examines this preeminent modernist who is renowned for the distinctive figurative sculptures that he produced in reaction to the trauma and anguish of World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men, and expressive bust-length portraits. The exhibition encompasses the entirety of the artist’s career, featuring nearly 200 sculptures, paintings, and drawings, some of which have never before been shown in the United States, as well as archival photographs and ephemera. Giacometti is organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Catherine Grenier, Direc

Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations, opening at the McNay Art Museum on June 7 and continuing through September 2, transforms the Tobin Exhibition Galleries into a unique interactive environment — one that invites visitors to immerse themselves in the distinct visions of four highly original artists. Organized in conjunction with the San Antonio Tricentennial celebrations and the 50th anniversary of HemisFair ’68, the exhibition features installations by Yayoi Kusama and Philip Worthington, a film by Andy Warhol, and a new commission by San Antonio-based artist Chris Sauter. “Our founder, Marion Koogler McNay, was devoted to showcasing the art of her time right here in her home in San Antonio,” says Richard Aste, Director of the McNay. “This summer, the McNay Art Museum very proudly upholds her commitment to both local and global contemporary art through Immersed, a special presentation of four mesmerizing

A painting by a young Vincent Van Gogh was sold at an auction in Paris Monday for more than seven million euros ($8.2 million), the Artcurial auction house said. “Raccommodeuses de filets dans les dunes” (Women mending nets in the fields) dates from 1882 and was bought by an American collector in a hot bidding battle that boosted the selling price far above the estimated value of between three to five million euros. “It’s a world record for a Van Gogh landscape, in the Dutch period, sold at auction,” Artcurial said. “There are no more than two or three auctions of Van Gogh works in the world each year,” the auction house added. In France, Monday’s event was the first auction of a painting by the Dutch artist in more than two decades. Van Gogh painted the work early in his career when he was 29 years old. “We already find all the characteristics of a Vincent