Rembrandt van Rijn, widely regarded as one of history’s best painters, also made about 350 exquisite prints lavish with painterly qualities. To commemorate next year’s 350th anniversary of the Dutch artist’s death, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) is exhibiting Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker September 16, 2018, to January 6, 2019.
September 2018 Art News
For the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history, two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos will be reunited in a special exhibition at The Frick Collection.
Petah Coyne’s first New York solo exhibition in nearly a decade, Having Gone I Will Return is now at Galerie Lelong & Co, showcasing new and recent work: the gorgeous baroque installations she is known for.
Commissioned to celebrate the crucial alliance between the British crown and the House of Orange, this intimate ad vivum (from life) portrait of Princess Mary, the finest portrait of the type, is remarkable for its royal provenance, the superb quality of its draughtsmanship and its exceptional condition. It is one of the most important European Royal Portraits to come to auction for a generation.
Bay Area Conceptual artist Paul Kos finds inspiration by visiting the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains. Being immersed in nature not only sparks his creative process, but also frees him from the stresses of urban life.
Through her iconic casts of domestic objects and spaces, Rachel Whiteread has created a language of her own, one that subtly tells stories about the quiet moments of our lives and the places they are lived out. Through the more than 100 objects on display in her survey at the National Gallery of Art, it is clear that throughout her 30-year career, Whiteread has honed this voice, and used it to tap into our intimate memories and feelings related to home.
The Museum of Modern Art presents "Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done," a major exhibition that looks anew at the formative moment in the 1960s when a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers, and filmmakers made use of a local church to present groundbreaking cross-disciplinary performances.
Every fall, Asian Art Week brings a gorgeous array of treasures from the East to auction houses in New York and across the country. Here some highlights of pieces sold at auction last week.
On October 4, Sotheby’s will offer works from the collection of Robin Williams and his wife of over 20 years, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams. Join Marsha and their daughter Zelda Williams as they lovingly recount a lifetime of collecting and living with the iconic entertainer.
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Robert A M Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them, and asks them how and why Postmodernism came about, and what it means to be Postmodern.
