“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” — George Bernard Shaw Conservative media person Jesse Kelly tweeted: “People love to sound sophisticated and brag about European art and architecture. I’ve seen America’s and I’ve seen what they’ve got. Theirs can’t touch ours.” To illustrate his

Naomi Campbell (2023). Photo by Marco Bahler for V&A. Art lovers the world over will be swarming Europe next year for the Venice Biennale, which as per usual boasts dozens of national pavilions and the highly anticipated main exhibition, “Foreigners Everywhere,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Anyone hoping to stay on for an early vacation is

About the Exhibit This exhibition features a selection of paintings by the prominent artist Natalya Nesterova (1944-2022), which offers a glimpse into her creative process and celebrates her artistic journey. Drawing inspiration from a variety of sources, including French modernism and works of the primitivist painter Niko Pirosmanishvili, Nesterova painted in a realistic manner, combining

David Stephen Johnson, whose latest exhibit was during Miami Art Week’s last edition in December 2019, will present a selection of his recent works from December 7th to the end of January 2021 in a group exhibition called Year Representation at Galerie Sonia Monti. This up and coming gallery is based in the exclusive 8th Arrondissement in

Never mind exhibition of the year, the Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer extravaganza was billed as the show to end them all. Just like the Dutch master’s jewel-like paintings, each one an invitation to enter a world of sensuous mystery and delight, the biggest Vermeer exhibition ever staged was a work in miniature, comprising 28 of 37 surviving

What would Christmas be without the humble Christmas card? It’s hard to think of a more quintessentially British seasonal tradition than propping up colourful bits of stiff paper on your mantelpiece, but in fact we wouldn’t be sending each other bits of stiff paper were it not for a feat of pan-European collaboration – and

Coming to the Portland Art Museum this summer from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, the exhibition features paintings and sculpture ranging

It should come as no surprise that wine has been a worldwide source of artistic inspiration for millennia. It’s there in ancient Egyptian tombs. In Islamic works as a metaphor for both the divine and the debased. In dramatic depictions of class struggle in Central and South Asian art. In the religious art of the

It should come as no surprise that wine has been a worldwide source of artistic inspiration for millennia. It’s there in ancient Egyptian tombs. In Islamic works as a metaphor for both the divine and the debased. In dramatic depictions of class struggle in Central and South Asian art. In the religious art of the

The Captured Runaway, 1856, by William Gale, British, 1823–1909. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Museum Purchase, Jane H. and Charles E. Parker Jr. Art Acquisition Fund, 2021.48. On January 25, 2024, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open “The Book of Two Hemispheres:” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the United States and Europe. This exhibition