At Large
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 the attention of…
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-…
The White House’s recent push to reshape President Donald Trump’s image at the National Portrait Gallery raises questions about who gets to write history and who gets to erase it. A series of…
In October 1900, a 19-year-old Picasso first arrived in Paris to visit the World’s Fair while simultaneously navigating the road to recognition in the city’s art scene. His first sale—three…
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 Frieze compete for dominance outside slower American and European markets. Despite the Middle…
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, said to be the…
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 itself to become an…
I grew up in New York with parents who were early collectors of modern and contemporary art. In the 1970s, I would accompany them to SoHo to visit galleries like Pace, Mary Boone, and Castelli. We…
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…
Dib Bangkok Provides a Home for Contemporary Art in Thailand
As the final stretch to the Winter Olympics comes into view, the world’s eyes turn once more to the city of Milan. Just weeks after the city closed out its annual Fashion Week, runways are being…
From New York and Detroit to London and Basel, leading museums are staging major exhibitions devoted to canonical modernist masters at a moment when our world is as uncertain and tension-wrought as…
