Artistic patronage did not flee Rome following its traumatic sack by mutinous Spanish and German soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire in 1527. Seven years later, Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549) was elected Pope Paul III and sponsored a series of urban projects intended to revitalize the scarred city.
March 2025 Art News
DOOM: House of Hope is a three hour long performance by Anne Imhof at the Park Avenue Armory, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. It opened to the public on March 3rd and will run through the 12th.
A trove of ancient gold jewelry was unearthed in an excavation by the Egyptian-French Centre for the Study of Karnak Temples working alongside the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
On a visit to a museum, one usually hones in on the quest to take in as much art as possible. As one walks between galleries, absorbing centuries of art, an expected but often overlooked constant emerges—the picture frame.
There is no doubt that the golden ratio runs rampant through the art of the sixteenth century and on. The most evident manifestation of the ratio lies in the composition of paintings and cutting of canvases
Over the past few weeks, mass layoffs have plagued the country across various sectors— from the National Park Services to acclaimed museums.
Around 1908, Vanessa Bell began a painting that she would call Poppies and Poison. In it, she limns a tabletop in cool-toned whites, set against a striped, cream-colored wall. A small green vial sits beside a pharmacist’s jar and a bowl. In the foreground, three poppies—two white, one red—reach across the canvas. They are carefully placed; their crooked stems have been pulled straight, as parallel as possible.
ACA Galleries is delighted to present Augustus Francis: Materia Prima, his debut solo exhibition in New York City. Featuring two new bodies of work that embrace the contradictions and dualities inherent to his practice.
