At Large
The artistic creations and advancements of Ancient Greece have undoubtedly had profound and lasting effects on the development of later art production, particularly within the western canon.
In June of 1972, a photograph was snapped as a group of children charged through the streets near the town of Trảng Bàng in Vietnam. The terror in their faces depicts the aftermath of a napalm…
Multi-dimensional artist Kiah Celeste (1994) reappropriates found objects, gleaning material from urban and industrial environments, to build sculpture and framed wall pieces into surreal…
Art Nouveau was inspired by nature, spurred on by the Arts and Crafts movement, and served as a fundamental reaction against Industrialization.
Internationally renowned Ugandan multidisciplinary artist Acaye Kerunen combines storytelling, writing, acting, and activism in her performances and installations. Kerunen collaborated with Collin…
Pharaoh Hatshepsut (Hat-shep-soot) (c. 1505–1458 BC), who ruled Egypt over 3,500 years ago, commissioned art and architecture as a part of her leadership strategy. She was the wife of Pharaoh…
Throughout history, cultures and artists have faced upheavals and catastrophes and reflected them through their work. Here we look at ten great works of art created in uncertain times.
These eight artists bent the rules when branding themselves. Although they worked across two centuries, all chose to adopt their mother’s family names instead of abiding by the traditional patriarchy…
While Rembrandt and Vermeer remain perhaps the most famous painters of the era, there are a plentitude of other Dutch Golden Age artists worth remembering.
This past Friday, the Trump administration issued a proposal to eradicate numerous arts-centered agencies from the federal budget. These “small agency eliminations” include the National…
The first Haitian female artist to exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art–with her remarkable paper dress sculpture, Justice of Ezili–conceptual artist Fabiola Jean-Louis (…
If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to…
Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media–including textiles…
Stories featured in the spring edition of Art & Object magazine.
In both comical and calamitous fashion, it was recently revealed that a valuable silkscreen print by Andy Warhol was accidentally thrown into the garbage at a town hall in the Dutch municipality…
