One of Rome’s restorative problems begins miles outside of the city.
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This September 2025, the Museum of Modern Art’s current director, Glenn D. Lowry, is retiring. Lowry acquired the honor of being the Museum’s longest-serving director, stepping into the position three decades ago in 1995. During his time at the MoMA, he has helped to initiate its tremendous growth–doubling the size of its galleries and expanding its endowments–and even created the education and research center.
The 2025 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong featured 240 galleries from 42 countries and territories, showcasing artistic practices demonstrating the show’s commitment to global diversity and regional representation.
Iowa-based multimedia artist Jim Shrosbree won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Focused on sculpture, drawing, and painting, Shrosbree’s work usually centers around abstract, primordial biomorphic forms. Mounted on the wall, or stacked on pedestals, his work interacts with the surrounding space in intriguing ways, creating a sense of mystery and wonder.
Grisaille made a name for itself in European artwork. Literally meaning “greyness” in French from the prefix gris, the method reached its peak of prominence during the sixteenth century. The technique was initially limited to underpainting but it soon took on a life of its own.
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.
After 90 years of questioning the fate of four frescoes by Maxine Albro (1893-1966), originally painted on the exterior walls of The Ebell of Los Angeles in 1933, the murals were finally uncovered behind multiple layers of paint.
Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into tapestries and installations–weaving together history, identity, resistance, and resilience.
Here are eight paintings found in unusual places that turned out to be worth more than anticipated.
For many, the term “printmaking” may conjure images of Enlightenment-era political cartoons or perhaps a Renaissance printing press, but printmaking is one of the oldest human art forms.
