Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

The divine Raphael. Only Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci stand with him in the trinity of the Italian High Renaissance art. Through June 28, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is hosting Raphael: Sublime Poetry, an exhibition of over 170 works by the master, many of them not seen in this country before. The show has drawn predictably huge crowds.

Who’s the greatest American artist of the late 19th century? I think you have to leave John Singer Sargent out of the running: though he had American citizenship, he was born in Italy, trained in France, and spent most of his life in Europe. Sargent aside, I suspect that most art histori...

“The report of my death was an exaggeration,” Mark Twain said in 1897, replying to queries from American reporters who were investigating reports of Twain’s death on a visit to England. It’s the same with the art world: troughs inevitably follow peaks, and doomsayers proclaim the end of the market. 2025 had been unexciting, when it was not horrendous (