Metamorphosis of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth.’ c. 1670 – 83. Cleveland Museum of Art : John L. Severance Fund 2019.9 Cleveland Museum of Art Anyone expecting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s groundbreaking survey of European women artists from 1400-1800 to simply ascend a group of overlooked female painters to a heightened status equal that of
The artist Robert Motherwell was a bridge between continents: at once a spokesman for the New York School and a conduit for the theories of European modernists. And yet, there has not been a retrospective of his work in Europe since 1998. In Austria, the last major Motherwell exhibit took place in the 1970s. That
This fall, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts’ temporary galleries will feature more than 30 exquisite paintings on loan from the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. On view from October 13, 2023, through January 7, 2024, European Splendors: Old Master Paintings from the Kress Collection contains works from Columbia’s Kress Collection along
One day, in the late 1970s, while walking the streets of Pigalle in Paris, the American painter Barkley L. Hendricks noticed several well-dressed Black men and women. As Hendricks later explained, he was particularly struck by the fashion sense of two African men. He spent time photographing them in different postures and situations, as was
Daniel Fulco, Ph.D. As summer concludes, the museum is preparing for an exciting fall exhibition schedule. “Picasso on Paper: The Artist as Printmaker, 1923–72” will be at the museum Nov. 11 through March 3. The first exhibition at the museum devoted to Spanish-born artist Pablo Picasso since 1972, “Picasso on Paper” features 62 etchings, engravings,
People visit the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris, France, Sept. 17, 2023. The annual European Heritage Days took place on Sept. 16 and 17 this year, during which nearly 20,000 historical sites were opened to the public for free in France. (Xinhua/Gao Jing) People visit the National School of Fine Arts in
©Firelei Báez/Photo Amilcar Navarro/Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Firelei Báez, an artist whose lush paintings and sculptural installations have been seen widely in recent years, has joined Hauser & Wirth, the market juggernaut with more than a dozen galleries worldwide. Hauser & Wirth will show and sell Báez’s art globally, meaning that her longtime representative, New
CNN — Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand visual narratives of humanity’s inception — and all its triumphs, beauty, tragedies and meaning — they likely look very White. This is because, for centuries, the artistic traditions
Opulently clad in a crimson tunic, the subject of Jan Jansz Mostaert’s “Portrait of an African Man” looks pensively, even imperiously, into the distance, his cream-gloved hands clasping a sword and purse — symbols of status and wealth. Captured in oils in 1525-30, he poses hand on hip with the “Renaissance elbow”, commanding space. Thought
Wisteria pearl and bronze earrings and Inca cuff. Greg Milano Studio Julie Cohn has been creating her art jewelry collections in her studio in Dallas, Texas, since 2011, a space she describes as an “artistic collective,” staffed with young artists she mentors as they take their first steps into creative careers. Inspired by the natural