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It is an unfortunate fact of art history reporting that artists about whom little is known often stay that way, largely because a lack of juicy details about their lives often makes for dull articles.
These liminal areas have been the focus of attention in recent years and the surprising setting for a thrilling revival of excavation in Pompeii. Not since the 1980s has there been an archaeological dig that has broken the seal of the undisturbed layers of volcanic deposits with the hefty blow of a pickaxe.
An initiative to feature a selection of women on U.S. quarters has so far approved two barrier-breaking Americans: Sally Ride and Maya Angelou.
The exhibition takes inspiration from a 1920s children’s periodical which was widely regarded in children’s literature as the pioneering effort to feature positive, contemporary content and imagery of African-American culture.
The Swedish jewelry brand AWNL prides itself in geometry art by unconventionally installing the pyramid—a three-sided polygon with three vertices—into a meteorite so as to bestow special beauty on the wearer.
This summer, Colnaghi gallery presents a major survey of Latin American art from the Viceregal period, assembled in collaboration with Jaime Eguiguren, the world’s preeminent expert on viceregal art.
Sotheby’s blended in-person and digital experiences to execute three sales on the evening of May 12 with stunning results including the five-person bid over a star piece, Claude Monet’s Le Bassin aux nymphéas.
The Gilda Oliver artistic team, Marc and Gil Oliver are Baltimore-based painters, sculpture, and digital computer mixed media artists. Gil Oliver is a graduate of Alfred University & Cranbrook Academy of Art. Marc Oliver is a self-taught artist.
It is fascinatingly unpredictable how some of the biggest brouhahas among cultural critics can be preserved for history, while others are so quickly lost to time.
The exhibition takes Fishing Boats at Étretat (1885), the only work by Claude Monet in SAM’s collection, as inspiration, presenting it alongside ten other paintings by Monet from his visits to the village as well as five paintings by his contemporaries.