November 2020 Art News

The Reading Public Museum is pleased to present Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau which includes more than 70 original works by the artist many consider the creator of the Art Nouveau style. From 1895 to 1910 Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) was one of the most significant artists in all of Europe.

For six months the 2020 iteration of Made in L.A. has been on ice. It is art without an audience, hanging in an existential funk.
Known for her symbolic use of the nude self-portrait, artist Julie Heffernan’s style can be described as a contemporary mix of Rococo, Surrealism, and Baroque, with a dash of the seventeenth-century Dutch still-life Masters.
In this short video, join experts at Bonhams as they discuss the lives and works of two 20th century painters, William Roberts and David Bomberg.
The Menil Collection is pleased to present Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century, the first large-scale survey of twentieth-century Italian drawings mounted in the United States.
The artworks, which are wide-ranging in their formal approach, media, and vision, expand SAMA’s growing photography collection and fulfill important mission-driven goals to enhance its holdings of works by women, artists of color, and those living in Texas.

 

The Column of Trajan, attributed to the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, was completed in 113 A.D. and stands at 126 feet tall. Here is the history of this iconic Roman monument.

Presenting colorful glass works from the past five years, The Desire for Transparency: Contemporary Artists Working with Glass offers a curated selection of innovative contemporary artists.
Working in an inventive, personal style that he boldly calls contemporary surrealism, Nigerian artist Kelechi Nwaneri creates beautifully bizarre imagery of fictional figures in landscapes, which are half-real and half-imagined.
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has added an important Dutch still life by a follower of Osias Beert I to its collection of seventeenth-century European art.