Illustration by Nash Weerasekera The scene is the invitation-only preview of the European Fine Art Fair, colloquially known as TEFAF, in New York in May. A savvy American collector who has known his way around the art world for decades is admiring a headless torso, gracefully chiseled in marble. All that’s left of the statue’s
Dollhouses, Monopoly pieces, action figures, Lilliputians, “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.” What is it about tiny things that tickle, and toy with, our imaginations? “Miniatures are both appealing and sometimes unsettling,” mused Courtney Harris, Museum of Fine Arts assistant curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe. “They can be cute and whimsical, but also
UCL Arts & Humanities is delighted to announce that renowned contemporary artist and lecturer in Fine Art, Mary Evans, will take up the post of Director of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art from 4 October 2023. She will succeed Slade Professor Kieren Reed, who has served a five-year tenure as Director since September
When Gabi Jimenez, a French Spanish Romani painter, first heard several years ago that a major museum in France was planning an exhibition on Romani culture and history, he said he thought it would be “a mess.” The story of the Roma, Jimenez said, has long been told by outsiders who depict them at best
Throughout the 20th-century the Czech art scene has battled censorship, as such, it hasn’t been given the international stage it deserved. A new wave of contemporary Czech artists are proving their worth and gaining global recognition. We profile contemporary Czech artists to know, from the controversial creations of renowned sculptor David Černý to the street
Mona Kuhn’s Kings Road and the adjacent Icons exhibition of Bastiaan Woudt and George Hoyningen-Huene, both at Jackson Fine Art through August 5, are distinctly European collisions of fantasy and reality, history and imagination. But the types of collision are very different. Kuhn moved to Los Angeles in 2005 and was transfixed by the 1922
Christie’s landmark Rothschild Masterpieces auction series — the first of its kind in North America — finished in triumphant style, totaling $62,656,516 and illustrating the continued global appeal of ‘le Goût Rothschild’ along the way. The series continues in Paris this Classics Week featuring seven sales, from 2–22 November, each containing lots from the Rothschild
A festival promoter told Delbert Anderson he didn’t present as Indigenous enough. The trumpeter and his group, DDAT, showed up to the State Fair of Texas in what he calls “the Native American section” — filled with dancers in traditional garb, among other signifiers. DDAT, for their part, donned suits. “They immediately assumed that we had some
How to Read European Decorative Arts, the latest volume in The Met’s How to Read series, illuminates European artistry and ingenuity in decorative arts from the High Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution through forty exemplary objects. I spoke with curator and author Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide about the categorization of fine and decorative arts, the role of
An all-star extravaganza of outstanding art spanning four centuries, “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection” is eliciting broad appeal among visitors attending the new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. So many famous names adorn the list of artists as well as subjects in this show, a social media