Art News

Jonah Lobe is responsible for some of the most iconic characters in the video game phenomena Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4– including the Skyrim Dragon and the Fallout Deathclaw.

Gold is perhaps the most iconic metal—an immortal symbol of wealth. Even in the ancient world, this precious resource was an object of great attention, highly desired yet hard to find. The Romans and Greeks were able to locate it in its purest form, however, only in a limited number of areas and in the form of nuggets from mines or small particles collected from rivers or desert sand.

It takes a brave collector to acquire artwork by an emerging artist.

In the Palestre Grande of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, a new exhibit–Essere Donna Nell’antica (To Be a Woman in Antiquity)– offers visitors a glimpse into what life was like for the women of the ancient city.

Santa Fe Art Auction’s annual Native Market sale will be held this year from August 12th through 14th, prior to SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market—a vibrant, renowned annual event and the largest market for Indigenous art in the world. Native Market will feature many fine works by Pueblo and Indigenous artists, spanning from traditional pieces from the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary art from Native artists practicing today, many of whom have exhibited and won awards at Indian Market.

Lines in Four Directions is a 90-by-72-foot sculpture by the late artist Sol LeWitt. It was mounted on the west-facing side of a building owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) at 10 W Jackson Blvd in Chicago’s Loop District. 

Utagawa Hiroshige, born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797, was the creator of over 5,000 designs for color woodblock prints, hundreds of paintings, and dozens of illustrated books.

When artist Ruth Asawa was a little girl, she and her siblings killed time on the family farm sitting on horse-drawn carts and tracing hourglass patterns in the dirt with their toes, a shape that turns in on itself, blurring the distinction between inner and outer borders. Other times, she unwound wire tags labeling crates and then reshaped them into bracelets, rings, and figures.

Nestled against the Sangre de Cristo mountains in downtown Santa Fe, Nedra Matteucci Galleries is a 15,000 square-foot adobe building housing one of the most stunning collections in the region. Its prominence as a respected art institution and one-of-a-kind character has led to its legacy as a legendary Santa Fe landmark for over 50 years. 

Even as the art world continues to make strides toward gender equity, its history still holds major gaps. One such gap is the work of artist Jeanne Coppel. The Romanian-born French painter was a trailblazer in the use of abstraction in the 20th century.