Surrealism became the focus of many art institutions in 2024 in response to the 100th anniversary of the 1924 publication of Andre Breton’s (1896-1966) Surrealist Manifesto. Now, in a moment when female visionary artists like Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) are being rediscovered, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) stands out.
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The first Haitian female artist to exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art–with her remarkable paper dress sculpture, Justice of Ezili–conceptual artist Fabiola Jean-Louis (b. 1978) captures viewers’ attention with her Afro Surrealist creations.
If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to the twenty-first century CE.
Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media–including textiles, video, watercolor, and collage.
In both comical and calamitous fashion, it was recently revealed that a valuable silkscreen print by Andy Warhol was accidentally thrown into the garbage at a town hall in the Dutch municipality of Maashorst.
Santa Fe Art Auction's Art of the West sale will be held this year on May 7th and 8th and will feature an exceptional selection of Western artwork that celebrates the region's rich heritage. This auction anticipates the Rodeo de Santa Fe each year and will include a wide selection of artworks that express the unique character of the American West, and all that makes it wild, rugged, and markedly collectable.
This richly illustrated book provides an interdisciplinary understanding of jewelry and art
The contemporary art scene in the United Arab Emirates is flourishing. With Art Dubai (April 16-20, 2025) at the center of this spring’s art activities, bookended by the neighboring Sharjah Biennial (February 6–June 15, 2025) and the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial (November 15, 2024–April 30, 2025), the UAE was bustling with art dealers, curators, critics, and collectors this month.
The exhibition Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives opened at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 7th.
On a map of the United States, Louisiana appears to splinter off into the ocean, breaking apart into thousands of tiny, marshy pieces. And with every year, those pieces of wetland grow smaller and farther apart.
