She looks sideways at the viewer, limpid dark pools for eyes, strawberry curls setting off the flush of her cheeks and lips of faded fuschia. Who is she? She is the Lady in White. More than that, none can say. Sprung from the brush of Tiziano Vecelli, or Titian, she was referred to by the artist as “my most beloved object” and “a portrait of she who is the absolute mistress of my soul.” Some say she is an idealized figure of feminine beauty, others a favorite model, and still more think she is the artist’s eldest daughter, Lavinia, on her wedding day.
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Through textiles, drawings and comics, Jessica Campbell uses humor to shed light on her experiences and Emily Carr’s, both female artists striving to express themselves in a world dominated by male voices.
British ceramic artist Claire Partington’s site-specific installation Taking Tea is adding a new dimension to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM)’s popular Porcelain Room.
Following years of research, the DMA presents Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow which reunites over 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings by the artist and is accompanied by a catalogue constituting the first publication devoted to the life and artwork of Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe (1889-1961).
On the occasion of the Whitney’s major Andy Warhol retrospective, artists and curators, cultural producers and influencers talk about Warhol, his work, and his continued influence and relevance to our culture today.
In this episode, we examine how Warhol worked, and the ways he "did things that artists don't do."
Mark Bradford's exhibition for the 2017 Venice Biennale, Tomorrow Is Another Day, reflects the artist's longstanding belief in art’s ability to expose contradictory histories and inspire action in the present day.
The body of work is installed at the Baltimore Museum of Art through March 3, 2019.
As soon as you enter the first gallery at the North Carolina Museum of Art that holds Candida Höfer’s large format photographs, you are transported. Commanding the space, her mostly symmetrical compositions contain no people, only lavish interiors that bear evidence of devotion as well as secular daily ritual.
Before she was world-renowned as a pioneering feminist artist, Judy Chicago worked in abstraction, using pastel hues to form geometric patterns. A new survey at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, shows the artist moving into figurative works, finding a clear voice to explore the feminist themes that would come to define her work.
After several planned unveilings, the Louvre Abu Dhabi has so far declined to display Salvator Mundi — or even confirm its whereabouts.
Join curators Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić as they examine the architecture that emerged in Yugoslavia in the decades following WWII—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”—manifestations of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself.
