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The folksy charm of Margaret Kilgallen will be on display starting this week in the first posthumous museum exhibition of the Mission School artist’s work, opening Friday at the Aspen Art Museum.
Skinner, Inc. will hold an auction on January 12, 2019, of European Furniture & Decorative Arts. With over 500 lots on offer, the auction features fine ceramics and silver as well as European furniture and decorative arts of the 18th through 20th centuries.
It is iconic, incredible, and unforgettable-- but is the work on view in Paris's Louvre Museum today the real deal?
Reginald Marsh captures the excitement of 1930's Coney Island in his dramatic depiction of a steeplechase, Wooden Horses (1936). Curator Erin Monroe discusses this moment in American history perfectly captured in tempera paint at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced this week that it welcomed 7.36 million visitors to its three locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer—in 2018, an increase over the 7 million it reported for 2017.
In a new body of work from Dawoud Bey, the prolific portrait photographer explores blackness from a new angle: landscapes set at twilight. Night Coming Tenderly, Black, originally commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial of International Art, and opening this week at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) shows Bey working with landscapes in the same intimate way he usually photographs people.
Should form always follow function? Find out why Modern architecture can be so divisive.
This episode of the ArtCurious podcast explores the history behind Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a work that shocked the world.
Christie’s announces Property from the Collection of Richard L. Feigen, the renowned and influential American art dealer. Featuring early Italian and Baroque paintings, as well as 18thcentury British landscapes, several paintings from the Collection will be offered in the Old Masters sale in New York on May 2, 2019.
