Senior paintings conservator Pam Skiles and DAM director Christoph Heinrich discuss the role of varnish on paintings and why Monet and other Impressionists preferred matte finishes over varnish. See…
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Call and Response, Betye Saar’s current exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is a small but poignant portrait of the world Saar created over the course of her half century…
Exploring the history of St Michael Defeating the Devil by the Master of Belmonte from 1450-1500.
The aim of CIBO is to remind us that food is the unique and yet universal component that connects human beings across the globe.
Alexander Noelle, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, provides an introduction to the exhibition 'Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence' on view at The Frick Collection…
Eve Arnold was a woman in a profession dominated by men. She strongly opposed the label of “woman photographer” because she simply wanted to be recognized as a photographer who happened to be a woman.
To ready Paula Modersohn-Becker's "Self Portrait" (1907) for MoMA's reopening in October, conservator Diana Hartman tackles the question of how to repair holes in the painting’s canvas.
Female artists are taking over the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in a new exhibition addressing the pernicious problem of underrepresentation in art museums.
Go behind the scenes with contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, who discusses the inspiration and making of The NewOnes, will free Us, an exhibition of four sculpture that inaugurate The Met's annual…
When asked if his work was inspired by God, Matisse replied, “Yes, but that god is me.”
Enjoy a private showing with Tom Scott as he uncovers the fascinating history behind the Louvre's largest painting, The Wedding Feast at Cana. Tom takes you through the painting's ups and downs…
Although revered by his contemporaries, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the fiercely independent Hyman Bloom was relegated to the sidelines due in part to his mystical nature and reticence to…
In her genre-bending sculptures, Natalie Ball is playing with what we think we know. Subverting tropes about Native American identity and art by repurposing familiar materials, Ball points out the…
Senior staff members describe the demanding process of restoring the work, from matching its distinctive red color—a signature of Calder’s—to adjusting how its leaf-like plates “branch out” and move…
See how a plaster cast copy of Adriaen de Vries’ Seated Girl is brought to life. Requiring the creation of multiple parts which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, the moulding process contains many…
