Founded in 1966, the David Barnett Gallery has become Wisconsin’s premier fine art gallery, representing over 600 artists. Originally showcasing works by local college students, it now features masterpieces by Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Lichtenstein, and others, spanning paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and photography. Its diverse collection includes European, American, Latin American, Asian, and ethnographic art. Renowned nationally for its Picasso ceramics and Milton Avery oils, the gallery presents four major exhibitions annually, drawing visitors worldwide.
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The opening show at RioBravoFineArt for Art Hop on November 8 is for a truly astounding quilt maker, Yadi Flannery. Yadi is one of those artists who firmly secure her fiber art in the realm of fine art.
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.
Famously known as Grandma Moses, American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961) had a huge, and often unacknowledged, impact on American arts and culture. Frequently used as a prime example that it's never too late, the 79-year-old splashed onto the art scene in 1939, with three works in MOMA’s group show Contemporary Unknown American Painters, followed by a solo exhibition at Otto Kallir's New York Galerie St.
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.
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.
Santa Fe Art Auction is pleased to present its Signature Annual Live Sale on November 7th and 8th, the region’s premier auction and a long-time staple of the Western art circuit. Featuring the finest of the most popular categories that Santa Fe Art Auction brings to market throughout the year, the Signature Sale will comprise three expansive sessions that highlight the best of the Southwest and beyond.
