More recent cave painting discoveries, like a 2014 revelation of cave art in Indonesia, believed to be at least 36,000 years old, have altered our understanding of early humans altogether.
December 2020 Art News
They started out as a secret society. So secret that, when they signed their paintings ‘P.R.B.’, a rumour spread that those initials stood for ‘Please Ring the Bell’. They actually stood for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: a group of seven artists who held their first meeting in 1848 and wouldn’t remain in the shadows for long. Join Sarah Reynolds, Specialist and Head of Sale, British Art for a Pre-Raphaelite Collecting Guide.
Five New Auction Records Set for Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Amy Sherald, Jadé Fadojutimi, & Vaughn Spann
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a landmark gift from Ronald S. Lauder of 91 objects from his collection of arms and armor.
Long fascinated and inspired by Edvard Munch’s work, Tracey Emin has chosen a selection of his masterpieces to accompany her own works.
For nearly four decades, Joan Nelson has been reverently and subversively painting landscapes.
"Joan Mitchell's work is both abstract and emotionally precise. She had this idea that at certain moments, daily situations could be filled with a higher life. And it's that higher life that she was attempting to convey in her work." Patricia Albers, author of "Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter," reflects on these two staggering works painted more than 20 years apart.
Creating colorful narratives about erotic encounters from needle and thread, Sophia Narrett makes fascinating embroidered artworks that are fueled by love and desire.
The Connecticut Art Trail is celebrating twenty-five years of guiding art aficionados on a journey that includes twenty-two world-class museums and historic sites.
Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change will explore the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience.
