Echoing a pilot program launched in 1950, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will now allow cardholders to borrow select pieces of art for up to three weeks, as of November 3rd.
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Leonardo Drew is the embodiment of form and content. His expansive personality explodes with associations and ebullience; so does his art. “Superadditive,” he calls it. There really don’t seem to be any limits to his art, which is free-form yet meticulously crafted.
While Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer was sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million after a 20 minute bidding war, a solid gold toilet, titled America by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, drew far less fanfare at Sotheby’s recent auction.
As empires fell and made way for nation-states, dissolving Medieval social structures, rapid industrialization led to the development of Realism, a period from the mid-to-late nineteenth century that rejected the conservative and elitist structure of the Neoclassical movement that had ruled since the Renaissance.
Last summer, a small American museum made history by becoming the first institution in the country to return one of the fabled Benin bronzes. Officials of the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art traveled to Benin City, in southern Nigeria, to meet with the Oba, the hereditary ruler of the Edo people, and formally hand over one bronze plaque, as well as a wooden altarpiece, both of which had been in the museum’s collection for decades.
As the orginal "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci’s works have influenced artists, scientists, architects, and great thinkers for centuries. Along with the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, his Vitruvian Man drawing is one of the most iconic images in the history of Western art.
When I went to first grade, as an only child, my mother, Arlene Schnitzer, enrolled in the Portland Art School. Her teachers complained to her that there was no contemporary art gallery there. This was the early 1960s. So she opened the Fountain Gallery of Art, to concentrate on artists of the Pacific Northwest and the San Francisco Bay area. As a third-grader, I was looking into a corner and there was a funny cabinet there: I saw that there were these tiny print drawers. I pulled one out and started looking at a beautiful fuchsia print.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was born and died in Vienna, where he helped found the Vienna Secession, a contemporary art movement closely related to Art Nouveau. He received formal training at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts.
The recent discovery of a 16th century merchant ship in French territorial waters and the positive identification of an early 18th century Spanish galleon off the coast of Colombia have sparked renewed conversations about maritime cultural heritage preservation.
In a talk at TEDx Nuremberg in July 2022, Dr. Carina Popovici posed the question, “Can AI detect forged art?” Using a work by Impressionist painter Eugène Boudin as an example, she highlighted the cumbersome, time-intensive, and sometimes biased work of art authentication, suggesting instead that artificial-intelligence platforms would revolutionize the field.
