#art-history

#art-history

For more than a decade, Rosen has sought out chattering macaws, cockatoos with fluffy, blush-colored plumage, and ornery owls, which she pairs with patterned papers and textiles. An African penguin, for example, stares curiously at its pink-and-white striped surroundings, while a Lady Amherst's pheasant trots across ornate brocade. The resulting portraits are meditations on notions of beauty and the relationship between nature and culture, particularly as we've reproduced imagery of the former throughout centuries of art and design.

Wally Caruana was the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia between 1984 and 2001. His book provides a concise survey exploring how the diverse works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists has continually developed and responded to change. He considers the impact of urban living, the growth of local art centres that support the artists in these communities, and the recognition of women artists.

"The Bayeux Tapestry is a unique work of art. It has no equivalent, not even the Mona Lisa, of which there are several paintings."

Paco Pomet's rise to international recognition was catalyzed by controversies such as his gallery's expulsion from ARCO, highlighting challenges in the art world.

The recently identified portrait of Konstantinos XI Palaiologos in a monastery church provides new insights into Byzantine art and its historical context, particularly during the mid-Byzantine period.

"The same institution that values tradition above almost everything else has quietly acknowledged that artistic merit isn't about the tools you use - it's about what you create with them."

Nieves González constructs a visual terrain where the legacies of pictorial memory intersect with contemporary urgency, revealing new anatomies of the present.

"Vincent described the scene thus: A red vineyard, completely red like red wine. In the distance it became yellow, and then a green sky with a sun..."

Celia Paul, known for her haunting portraits and landscapes, trained at the Slade and had a ten-year relationship with Lucian Freud, resulting in their son Frank.

The restoration confirmed previous reports that Raphael wished to paint imagery directly onto the walls of the four rooms. Two female figures, uncovered during a previous restoration and attributed to Raphael, were found to be painted in this way-supporting the fact they are indeed by the master.

Ali Smith's essay on Edvard Munch is a door opener for understanding the artist's immediate approach to painting. The gift of Munch is that he strips back everything that is not important.

Here are the career highlights, flashing by at warp speed in the necessarily dense retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie.

"A lot of people say that the varnish should never be removed, that that's a patina that is on the surface of the painting and that it adds to the painting's quality: it makes the painting look better, it makes it look more serious," says Baumgartner.

People should know that Mildred is firmly rooted in representing African American life and culture, from the historic to the contemporary, said Cheryl Ward, a San Francisco art collector.

In 1968 Celmins's medium shifted. "I dropped paint," she says, "because I was not satisfied with it. I fell for the pencil-maybe so I could explore its ability to be dense yet precise."

The newly projected Museo Casa Kahlo, or Casa Roja, will showcase Frida Kahlo's formative years and is the first museum run by her descendants.

What is even less widely known is that, in the past, two ambassadors have brought their Van Gogh masterpieces with them to enhance the house's reception rooms.

Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' sparked outrage in Parisian society for its radical departure from traditional representation of nude figures in art.

The central theme of the 2025 Jubilee Year at Sienna's Duomo is 'Hope,' symbolized by a unique marble inlay designed for the occasion.

Thomas, the first Black woman to have her work enter the White House's permanent collection, lived and worked at this address for almost 70 years.

"Majerus had been the subject of a solo museum exhibition in Switzerland, in 1996, and he'd created a major installation for the Venice Biennale, in 1999."

Weston was central to the movement to elevate photography beyond its documentary origins, championing pure photography with sharp focus, detail, and unmanipulated imagery.

Clive Phillpot, who became the director of the library at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1977, was the first to curate an exhibition on the subject.