At Large
The Berkshires, a lush region of mountains, rolling green hills, and picturesque farmland in western Massachusetts, has long attracted artists looking to escape the summer heat and the frenetic year-…
Last year, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron signed a historic agreement allowing the Bayeux Tapestry—a 230-foot-long strip of medieval cloth embroidered with…
For artistically-minded people, the golden ratio—or better yet, the divine proportion—might be easier to understand visually. Here are several examples of how the golden ratio can be applied to works…
The summer of 2026 has been an unusually successful one for museum thieves as European institutions grapple with a rising number of break-ins and heists.
The artist used traditional symbols but also created his own, referencing the Bible and Flemish folklore to create unique visual manifestations of established metaphors and puns.
In its third iteration, a six-person variation of anyyywayyy whatever was commissioned and performed at Amant in Brooklyn near the start of the autumnal equinox season. The artist…
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of history's best-known artists. Despite struggles with depression and psychosis Van Gogh became a master of Post-Impressionism. Van Gogh paintings like …
Eight prints from Henri Matisse’s celebrated 1947 Jazz series, valued at about $190,000, are back in the hands of Brazilian authorities after being recovered from an apartment…
Caspar David Friedrich, like other Romantic painters, established landscape paintings as a dominant genre in Western art. Friedrich’s coming of age was during a time when materialistic society began…
New York–based artist and landscape designer Paula Hayes (1958) just unveiled her first-ever permanent public landscape installation at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York. Designated a…
Between 1897 and 1926, Claude Monet painted approximately 250 waterscapes of his favorite subject towards the end of his life: Water lilies. The latter half of these paintings in particular are…
From coconut palm leaves folded into ceremonial forms in Bali to brown ash splints woven into baskets in Maine and wool blankets woven across the Navajo Nation, a younger generation of artists is…
In the late 17th century, the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I purchased, in the words of Dutch Golden Age painter and biographer Arnoldus Houbraken, “a sublime work consisting of flowers,…
Originally, the mask was adorned by members of all socioeconomic classes to conceal identity. This was necessary since most legal and moral boundaries were blurred during this period, and so were the…
From Naoshima to Chicago, Art & Object brings you eleven popular and thought-provoking public artworks around the world.
