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.
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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.
Success in the business of making, selling, or collecting art demands an entrepreneurial mindset. To be an entrepreneur requires original thinking and the ability to transform an idea into an enterprise or product that creates value—economic, social, cultural, or intellectual.
“What belongs to one, belongs to almost no one,” said Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida, who dedicated a significant portion of his practice to public works. Too big to travel, you won’t see any public works at the new show, Eduardo Chillida: Convergence, the largest North American survey of his work in 40 years, at the San Diego Museum of Art through February 8th.
The theft of royal jewelry, collectively valued at $102 million, from the Louvre Museum’s Apollo Gallery on October 19 has sparked everything from memes to heated debate over the museum’s security infrastructure.
In June this year, a colossal ancient marble head was discovered in Rome. Presumably once part of a larger, full-body statue, the identity of the bust is yet to be determined. Although it was found in the forum of Trajan, it does not resemble the emperor, who reigned from AD 98-117, and might be a portrait of his predecessor Nerva. In any case, this is the latest in a series of similar finds from excavations in Trajan’s Forum, as marble heads of the god Dionysus and the emperor Augustus were unearthed nearby in 2019.
In 1943, the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García sketched a map of South America with the continent turned upside down, so that its southern tip was at the top, marked “South Pole.” Titled América Invertida, the drawing was intended as a declaration of independence for all Latin American artists, expressing the belief that in order to fulfill their destiny, they must stop seeing themselves as peripheral.
