Echoing a pilot program launched in 1950, the …
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When I went to first grade, as an only child, my mother, Arlene Schnitzer, enrolled in the Portland Art School. Her teachers complained to her that there was no contemporary art gallery there.…
Before he had reached the age of 30, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) did something that some of his fellow artists considered somewhat odd: Dürer, a highly skilled painter, devoted a…
Utagawa Hiroshige, born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797, was the creator of over 5,000 designs for color woodblock prints, hundreds of …
Summertime’s gardens have long inspired artists and botanists. Botanical illustration emerged around the time of Plato, more than 2,000 years ago. The medium launched not as a fine art, but as a…
Copying within the context of the art world has evolved over the centuries. What was once understood as a vital tool for study and learning is now often perceived, especially by laymen, as a kind of…
In both comical and calamitous fashion, it was recently revealed that a valuable silkscreen print by …
The 2025 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong featured 240 galleries…
The exhibition, Heart On, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art…
Art, Roy Lichtenstein’s unframed 1989 serigraph printed in recognition of The American Federation of Arts 80th anniversary, is priced at $15,000 at the online gallery …
An original Henri Matisse (1869-1954) etching, “La Cite-Notre Dame”, at $2,500 is one of the higher priced works recently added to the extensive inventory available for…
Mary Cassatt’s oil painting, Little Girl in a Blue…
In many cultures, green is the color of rebirth and prosperity, a harbinger of life and spring. However, placed within the context of the nineteenth century, green begins to represent the…
Two of Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe portraits are scheduled to go up for auction this May at two different, leading auction houses—Christie’s and Bonhams. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of…
Andy Warhol grew up skinny and badly-complected, but more pertinently Catholic and gay (conditions noticeably conjoined in art history) at a time when being either wasn’t welcome in mainstream…
