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
I recently stumbled across a post claiming to state the “objective” differences between good art and bad art. As an ardent lover of art in all its forms – and who isn’t – I was very interested in seeing how this user quantified an inherently subjective topic. What I saw made me laugh. The user
(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Wed 6 September 2023 22:15, UK Stanley Kubrick‘s 1975 film Barry Lyndon is a masterclass in cinematography, an opulent visual spectacle that transports audiences into the 18th-century world of its protagonist. Yet what is equally fascinating is how it draws upon a rich tapestry of European fine art to create