Of Peaches, Pears, and Politics
March 30, 2017
Patricia Mainardi– Traviès’s 1831 lithograph shows a man gesturing towards a display of caricatures while saying “You have to admit that the head of state looks pretty funny”. It could… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
The Joys of Being a Natural History Artist
March 24, 2017
Debby Kaspari— I’m a natural history artist, and try to draw and paint from living animals whenever possible. Some of what I do in the field might turn out to… READ MORE
Spotlight on Josef and Anni Albers
Ivy Sanders Schneider– Josef Albers was a hugely influential German-born American artist and educator. This week — between March 19th, the day he was born in 1888, and March 25, the… READ MORE
A Multimedia Exploration of Thomas Wilfred’s Art of Light
March 22, 2017
“[G]limmers of unfathomable light” … a “yolk-colored blob” … “a sensuous array of abstract composition moving in suspended and unknowable sequence” … “vivid tendrils and clouds, soaring and seeping like… READ MORE
William H. Gerdts on Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting
March 15, 2017
As many who are attentive to art world goings-on are aware, collectors Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs recently promised to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a trove of spectacular still… READ MORE
An interview with Dana Miller, curator of Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight
March 9, 2017
Ivy Sanders Schneider– Carmen Herrera, who will celebrate her 102nd birthday this year, is finally a household name. Born in Havana, Cuba, Herrera has lived and worked in New York… READ MORE
On His Way to The Met: Max Beckmann in New York with Sabine Rewald
February 12, 2017
From our colleagues at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, here’s a great interview between Rachel High, Publishing and Marketing Assistant in the Met’s editorial department, and Sabine Rewald, curator of the… READ MORE
Anni and Josef Albers and the art they collected
February 2, 2017
Anni and Josef Albers were two of the most influential figures of 20th-century modernism. Anni was a textile artist, and Josef was a professor and artist in glass, metal, wood,… READ MORE
James S. Ackerman: Origins, Invention, Revision
January 11, 2017
On the last day of 2016, we lost one of the world’s foremost architectural historians when James Sloss Ackerman died at age 97. Ackerman was a consummate, and widely esteemed,… READ MORE
Cuba Libre: Art in Tumultuous Times; Interview with Abigail McEwen by David Ebony
January 6, 2017
David Ebony– Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba, a new book by University of Maryland professor and Latin American art scholar Abigail McEwen, could hardly have appeared at… READ MORE
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