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.
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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.
"Dive into the creative journey of David Whitburn, the 1st legacy artist for Artist Resource Transnational. In collaboration with the David Barnett Gallery, this special episode celebrates Whitburn’s visionary work and the artists who shaped his path." - David Barnett Gallery
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.
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.
Our 2026 ranking includes many familiar schools throughout the country, from SCAD and Mass Art, to Yale and SAIC. We’ve used the same criteria as in our previous lists to reach our conclusions, weighing tuition costs, ranges of majors, endowments, post-graduation employment rates, diversity and inclusion levels, student-faculty ratios, and standards of living in the surrounding cities and towns. We’ve also considered social and environmental aspects, such as a school’s reputation, its surrounding art community, and affiliated museums.
