The ritual of ecstatic frenzy induced by followers of Bacchus was seen as a way to free yourself from self-consciousness, as well as suppression by the powerful. The Roman…
Dian Parker
The exhibition, Painting Without Rules, is not only an immersion into American …
Utagawa Hiroshige, born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797, was the creator of over 5,000 designs for color woodblock prints, hundreds of …
Let us start with black and red, galactic black and blue-based crimson– void and blood, dead and living. Add to that, intense emotion: horror and ecstasy, revulsion and reverence, debauchery…
Mary Cassatt’s oil painting, Little Girl in a Blue…
Through their backstories and brushstrokes, the likeness of these two painters made a lasting impact on the art world.
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Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) through August 12, 2023, presents 120 of the artist’s works on paper including charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and…
Often an artist finds their voice through decades of work. A unique signature is created. Even though the focus may shift and bend, the inimitable remains. There is no one like her…
Attention to detail, subtle shifts of perspective, angles of surface, and objects overlapping or jutted up against one another; Giorgio Morandi’s sheer inventiveness with ordinary objects is…
The largest Vermeer exhibition ever staged just opened at the Rijk in Amersterdam. Gathering 28 of his 37 paintings, the exhibition is a closer than ever look into Vermeer’s artistic practice.
Hilton Als is many things: author, curator, critic, teacher, and winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Art & Object spoke to Als about his…
