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 lauded as stunning feats in compositional experimentation and innovation.
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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 returning to textile techniques their ancestors perfected centuries ago. Museums, galleries, and design houses are all taking notice.
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, arms, eagles, crowns, decorated in foliage, of woven silk in a rustic manner, for which more than four thousand guilders were given.” That was more than double the sum of money that
My first exposure to Dan Flavin’s classic fluorescent works was in 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. As a young student, I was mesmerized by the exuberant colors and equally puzzled by the use of commercial lighting. Art or hardware?
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 Venetian Republic’s rules regarding upper and lower social classes intermingling. Originating in the fourteenth century, the Venetian mask was originally intended to serve as a method of inclusiveness.
Staff at both the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) voted to strike over pay and working conditions in late July as European cities recover from a record-breaking heatwave that put long-standing employee concerns in the spotlight. Questions about how prepared many European museums are to withstand extreme climatic events are being raised.
From Naoshima to Chicago, Art & Object brings you eleven popular and thought-provoking public artworks around the world.
The Canton Museum of Art is proud to present Good Times: The Artistic Journey of Ernie Barnes in collaboration with the Ernie Barnes Estate, Ortuzar, New York, and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, coming August 18 – November 1, 2026. In pop culture Barnes’ artwork appears on album covers, television, and movies, especially his iconic dance hall scene, The Sugar Shack (1976).
Don Nice (1932–2019) was a relatively unknown, idiosyncratic artist whose roots spread across the American art landscape from 1960s Pop art back to mid-20th-century American modernism.
As we're now deep into the warm summer months, we're feeling the importance of the sun. Here's a brief look at the sun as a symbol throughout art history.
