The newly expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is a fitting showcase for Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, an exhibition of 25 rarely seen preparatory drawings for the frescos on the ceiling of Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel by art history’s archetypal Renaissance man.
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ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents a curated selection from the museum's Inuit collection, thoughtfully arranged by Inuk artist, filmmaker, and guest curator asinnajaq, in collaboration with Jacques Des Rochers and Léuli Eshrāghi.
Famous for founding the Stewart Gardner Museum with her husband John L. “Jack” Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) was a renowned nineteenth and early twentieth-century Boston art collector, art patron, and philanthropist known for her keen love of and appreciation for art, culture, and architecture.
Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous, recognizable, and copied artwork, has a storied history. Painted between 1503 and 1519, it was owned by French royalty for centuries. Liberated by Revolutionary forces, the painting briefly adorned Napoleon’s bedroom, then was installed in the Louvre.
Looking at art, one cannot ignore how important architecture is to the experience. Recently, the Brooklyn-based architecture firm, Peterson Rich Office, designed a new building centrally located on campus at the prestigious Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut called the Pruzan Art Center.
A cultural anchor, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) promotes continuous experimentation in contemporary art, advances new scholarship, and fosters the exchange of art and ideas throughout the Miami region and internationally. Launched in 2014, ICA Miami opened its current home in Miami’s Design District in 2017.
Founded in 1913 “for the benefit of all the people forever,” the Cleveland Museum of Art opened in 1916. With more than 600,000 people visiting each year, the CMA is one of the most visited art museums in the world.
Outside the Denver Art Museum (DAM), a banner printed with a detail from an Alma Thomas (1891-1978) painting proclaims one of the celebrated artist’s quotes: “Light is the mother of color.”
Though often overshadowed by the grand architectural and artistic achievements of the Roman period, the artists and craftspeople of the British Iron Age produced some of the most technically impressive materials in European history.
Just four hours from New York City, and serving as the main art institution for schools like Williams College and Bennington, The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts has just received an enormous posthumous donation from the Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O. Tavitian.
