Although he made his name in the 1950s and ‘60s as an Abstract Expressionist, Philip Guston is now best remembered for the dark humor conveyed in the cartoon-like figurative paintings and drawings that he prolifically produced during the last twelve years of his life, which ended in 1980.
July 2020 Art News
This magnificent watercolour by J.M.W. Turner exquisitely captures the romantic painter's love for the North of England. Discover how the "painter of light" depicted the sheer essence of time and atmosphere in this sumptuous watercolour of "God's Own Country". Gledhow Hall, Yorkshire is just one of the splendid works on offer by Turner and other distinguished artists in Sotheby's upcoming Old Masters Day Sale (20 - 29 July | London).
A collaboration with the Richmond Symphony's "Comfort and Joy!" – the Beethoven Summer Series, this video explores connections between the composer and Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's "Portrait of Joseph-Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil", from VMFA's collection.
Scoping out the budding gallery scene, we round-up three must-see shows currently on view in the Hamptons’ freshest spaces.
From July 2 to September 12, 2020, Throckmorton Fine Arts, the New York City art gallery, presents for the first time some of the photographs that Dimitris Yeros has taken in the island of Lesbos during the past 30 years.
Joost Joustra, The Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellow in Art and Religion, decodes paintings of angels.
The FBI recovered paintings in the process of being altered as well as an array of sports memorabilia in a recent raid on a Michigan farm.
Art critic Alastair Sooke and specialist Michael Jefferson reveal four furniture designers who turned crisis into a new direction in their career and work.
Beyond restricting social interactions and physical mobility, global stay-at-home orders impacted the work of contemporary artists around the world in a number of ways.
As a child, Marc Chagall would marvel at the traveling acrobatic troupes that passed through his Village. The animals, dancers and musicians of the circus seemed to conjure a distinct joy that would consistently manifest itself throughout the artist’s career.
