The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced the purchase of two extraordinary works of Italian art.
October 2019 Art News
Based in Amsterdam, the artist collective Studio Drift defies labels while pushing the boundaries of technology to realize their meditative ideas based on natural forms.
Watch a video about the conservation of Albrecht Dürer's Arch of Honor of Maximilian I, also known as The Triumphal Arch, a monumental woodblock print made up of thirty-six sheets of paper. Assembled, it is one of the largest prints of its time.
Monument Valley, an ambitious group exhibition, calls into question the complicated cultural legacy of the American West, confronting issues within the country's past that continue to affect politics, social issues, and attitudes about the natural environment.
Vasilis Zografos' pale, warm, clay-colored objects from some ill-defined cultural past seem to be suspended on softly muted blue-grey-green backgrounds, reinforcing the idea that these objects are untethered from their original use and meaning.
Yesterday in London the much-anticipated sale of Banksy's 2009 Devolved Parliament set a remarkable new record for the artist at auction.
While he’s best known as two-time Oscar-nominated director for such lauded films as Good Will Hunting and Milk, Gus Van Sant began his creative life as an art student at Rhode Island School of Design before switching majors to film.
Senior paintings conservator Pam Skiles and DAM director Christoph Heinrich discuss the role of varnish on paintings and why Monet and other Impressionists preferred matte finishes over varnish. See more than 120 works by Monet in "Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature" only at the Denver Art Museum, October 21, 2019-February 2, 2020.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591– 1666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural virtuoso who created brilliant drawings in a broad range of media.
This year, four stellar artists were given the financial and career boosts that come with the “Genius” title. Learn more about them here.
