Categorized as an Old Master within the canon of art history, Sir Peter Paul Rubens' work is characterized by a high concentration of color, movement, and form. Surpassing visual dynamism, many of his masterpieces aptly convey key socio-religious conflicts of the period.
June 2026 Art News
Experience the wonder of summer through an enchanting exhibition at Munson Museum of Art in downtown, Utica, NY. Watercolor Stories: The Art of Charles E. Burchfield opens Friday, June 12, and remains on view through September 13.
The backroom work of conservation is increasingly becoming a form of public engagement and education at museums that have turned the restoration of their greatest works into forms of theater. Conservators lean in with swabs of cotton and tiny brushes to restore paintings inch by inch, while museumgoers peer through plexiglass as if at the zoo.
It has been roughly 10 years since data artist Refik Anadol opened his studio in Los Angeles, leaving an indelible mark on the city.
Orphism seemed to stem from Cubism, in part, because it shared the desire to break down solid objects and challenge human perceptions of time, space, and volume. And yet, this “offshoot” of Cubism specifically placed color and lyricism at center stage.
Mary Abbott (1921-2019) loved the water. Her father, Lt. Commander Henry Livermore Abbott, was a decorated submarine commander in the first World War and a Naval advisor to FDR during WWII. She inherited his love of the sea. A native New Yorker (and sometimes cover girl), she came of age there as an artist in the late 1940s, joining the ranks of the new Abstract Expressionist movement. Her contemporary alignments included David Hare, Barnett Newman, and Willem de Kooning.
New York’s marquee spring auctions have wrapped with a combined $2.5 billion in sales across Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips.
What is a studio? We might wonder, as we examine how and where James Hyde conceives and produces his probing and various artworks. When it comes to the Brooklyn-based artist’s recent work, the path to a completed painting runs from the studio through the museum and back again.
There is a mystical aura that surrounds Celia Paul’s paintings, as if they lived in another atmosphere. The air around and within them emanates a different frequency: vibrations almost not human. Her figures are not corporal; they’re more like music, phrases in the air. Even the colors are not flesh, as if in a dream. Each painting, whether figure or object, seascape or self-portrait, is distinctly hers.
