Once relegated to cheap newsprint created only as casual entertainment to be consumed primarily on Sundays—or alternatively, more transgressive subject matter hidden behind the…
At Large
Early eighteenth-century France saw the emergence of Rococo style—an offshoot of the Baroque movement. Also called late baroque, Rococo artwork, architecture, and decor maintained the exuberance and…
Charles Byrne, born in 1761 in Ulster, Ireland, was over 7 feet and 6 inches tall. By age 21, his health was deteriorating rapidly due to then unknown growth disorders which caught…
This list presents a handful of notable, historical moments from the institution's 150-plus years of existence. From the museum’s murky accession of its first artwork in 1870 to the ground-…
Ironically, the most iconic portrait of the president was never completed.
The Persian Gulf is witnessing unprecedented art fair expansions as major players like Art Basel and …
This past February, the Art Institute of Chicago became the recipient of a transformational gift, approximately 2,250 works of French art spanning the 16th through 19th centuries,…
Dadaism or Dada is an art movement of the early twentieth century characterized by irreverence, subversion, and nonsense. Dada art, performance, and poetry emerged in Zurich as a reaction to the…
The word salon has a rich history of its own and was even used to indicate several different things within France in this period including an elite social gathering often led by a woman, a large…
Los Angeles has long lived in the shadow of New York’s art world dominance, but with the opening of three major institutions this year, the city is strategically repositioning…
I grew up in New York with parents who were early collectors of modern and contemporary art. In the 1970s, I would accompany…
This constellation of artists was all occupied with the problem of how to best represent an experience or a three-dimensional subject and all the weight and movement it carried. All these artists…
