In 2016 LACMA acquired a monumental painting by the Mexican artist Antonio de Torres, which was originally commissioned for the Franciscan convent of San Luis Potosí. Torres was part of a circle of artists interested in the renewal of painting in eighteenth-century Mexico. The film documents the painting’s history and process of conservation, providing insight into Torres's remarkable proficiency.
August 2019 Art News
Award-winning photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to document the world’s dwindling wildlife population.
Multiple records for artists and for individual prints were set in Heritage Auctions’ Urban Art Auction, which realized a total of $2,737,160 in Chicago.
Discover Antonio Tempesta’s The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea, a visceral rendering of the biblical passage in which Moses and the Israelites pass through the Red Sea while the Egyptian army is destroyed. Masterfully executed in oil on Italian red marble, the work’s magnificence lies in the way the artist incorporates vivid patterns of the stone into the image.
The new Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies will allow the Institute to preserve and honor the art of Bayer, who designed the Institute’s historic campus and whose prolific work represents the fullest expression of the Bauhaus movement in America.
In this video, listen to sculptor Robert Laurent (1890–1970) tell his story of emigrating from Brittany, France to New York City in the early twentieth century. His home movies, featured in this video, show the artist at work in his studio and at the school he co-founded in Ogunquit, Maine. Curator Elizabeth Kornhauser discusses the relationship between Laurent’s carved chest from 1911 and the traditions of American Folk Art.
Landscape with Three Trees, Rembrandt’s largest etched landscape, a masterful combination of technical virtuosity and skillful composition, was recently acquired by the Princeton University Art Museum, which holds 70 of the 300 prints Rembrandt created during his long career.
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities open a collaborative exhibition titled Colorado Abstract +10: A History & A Survey at both locations to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the stunning book, Colorado Abstract: Paintings and Sculpture.
Two lots from the most famous vampire movie ever made emerged as the two most expensive lobby cards ever sold and claimed the top two results in Heritage Auctions’ Movie Posters Auction July 27-28 in Dallas, Texas. The sale totaled $1,975,550 and boasted stellar sell-through rates of 98.7% by value and 96.7% by lots sold.
We sat down, virtually speaking, with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) founder and President Paula Wallace to talk about art education, and how her life changed directions when she founded SCAD in 1978.
