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Francis Bacon

The Skeletons in Francis Bacon’s Studio

Oak Spring Garden Foundation

The Life and Horticultural Art of Rachel “Bunny” Mellon

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

The Magical Paintings of René Magritte

Agnes Pelton, The Ray Serene, 1925.

Agnes Pelton: The Forgotten Woman Modernist Inspired by Nature’s Unseen Forces

Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus, 1863.

The Many Faces of the Venus in Art History

Design

Architectural rendering of Princeton's new art museum, a modern building

Princeton Reveals Adjaye’s Design for its New Art Museum

Architecture Unleashed: Designs for Dogs

Reopened Dallas Museum of Art to Debut New Acquisitions

Drawing

Hugo Wilson sitting in front of work in his UK studio

Studio Visit with Artist Hugo Wilson

Evenso: The Common & The Curious

Piranesi’s Visions of Rome

Auction

Andy Warhol orange and blue portrait of Keith Haring and Juan DuBose

Inside Keith Haring's Personal Collection, now at Sotheby's

Qing Wonder Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century

Pieter Brueghel’s Masterful Lampoon of the Legal Profession

Photography

Ansel Adams black and white photograph of a river with mountains

Ansel Adams in Our Time

Have a Laugh with the Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020

How Victorian Cabinet Cards Led to the Age of the Selfie

Modern

Photograph of Wilhelm and Henny Hansen smoking in front of water

Gauguin and the Impressionists: Origins of Ordrupgaard

The Skeletons in Francis Bacon’s Studio

Gauguin and His Circle in the Ordrupgaard Collection

Gallery

installation view, brightly colored tall paintings in a gallery with white walls

Reality Rendered Raw: 6 New York Solo Shows

3 Los Angeles Exhibitions Exploring the Nature of Things

Figurative and Abstract Paintings Brighten NY Galleries

Ancient

Bringing Looted Etruscan Art Home

An Ancient Vessel Forged from Fires of the Warring States

The Meroe Head of Augustus

Museum

narodakini british museum crop

Exploring Tantra at the British Museum

Marking Time: Art from Behind Bars at MoMA PS1

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle at The Met

Renaissance

Da Vinci's Vitruvian man from the chest up- a figure of a man with four arms in a circle

The History and Influence of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man

Holbein's Ambassadors: Theories and Questions

Art Historian Decodes Angel Paintings

Painting

John William Waterhouse painting of a woman in a white gown with long flowing red head looking distraught in a small boat

Meet the Femme Fragile, the Femme Fatale's Counterpart

Henri Matisse’s Divine Dancer

Paul Klee: A Primer

Contemporary

billboard with three works of art

Billboards Feature Art4Equality

Betye Saar: Call and Response

Collect Like an Expert: How to Find Great Emerging Artists

Fair

Frieze New York

Frieze New York 2020 Canceled

SCOPE 2020: The Sexy Art Fair

Independent 2020: A Cornucopia of Leading-Edge Art

Sculpture

View of "Two Forms (Divided Circle)" in garden at Hepworth Museum

Explaining Barbara Hepworth's Two Forms (Divided Circle)

Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin Upside Down

Contemporary Art In Spain: Street Art to Sculpture

Antiques

Viking Metal Engraved Bowl

Viking Objects at the British Museum

Isamu Noguchi Masters the Art of the Ashtray

How Folk Art Tells the American Story

Asian

Hokusai Great Wave print

Lost Hokusai Drawings find home at British Museum

Jade: The Invaluable Stone

Xiaoxiao Xu: A Photographic Journey Along the Great Wall