Natasha H. Arora
A visual history of Zoroastrianism—allegedly humanity’s oldest monotheistic religion—materializes only to the most determined eyes. Buried under millennia of crucifixes, stars of David, and crescent…
Just two months ago, New York City’s Frick Collection reopened its doors after a five-year renovation and temporary residence on Madison Avenue.
This April, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens Amy Sherald: American Sublime, and consequently cements the artist as the new Miss Americana. This is Sherald’s debut solo exhibit…
In 1974, when most American Art Nouveau dealers held just a few Art Deco pieces in their inventories, Gerardus A. Widdershoven (1951 - 2020) took a gamble and opened a gallery on East 10th…
Twenty years ago, Los Angeles-based high school painting teacher Jennifer Rochlin accepted a $10,000 grant to teach ceramics, despite one minor setback: she had never touched clay. Yet, this summer,…
Petrit Halilaj dedicates his new installation, Abetare, to “kids who always know how to bring a brighter future,” as his belief in childlike wonder reigns over New York City’s…
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibition, defines the Black cultural movement as a contemporary force.
His Pioneering Works Depict Black subjects in the Tradition of European Old Masters
The popular imagination often dismisses Byzantium’s aesthetic as a static, even regressive contrast to classical technique. Sumptuous and flattened, Byzantine methods abhorred naturalism, and…
Considering Holi and Diwali’s spectacularity, and a growing number of Indian immigrants ebbing westward into American and British media, it is a small wonder that these two Hindu festivals have…
Portraits intend to be reflections of their subjects’ character, placing William Orpen’s self-portraits in the extraordinary position of being extensions of his identity.
The figure of Lucretia persists as equal parts myth and reality.
