Through May 12 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Paris 1900: City of Entertainment introduces visitors to Paris during the Belle Époque (“Beautiful Era”) of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Few cities have the allure of Paris. Known as the City of Light, it has attracted tourists, artists and free thinkers for hundreds of years.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of 105 glass plate holograms by 20 artists related to the C-Project, a collaboration developed in the early 1990s between a select group of internationally renowned contemporary artists and holographers who experimented with the hologram process.
Later this year, the long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open its doors on Miracle Mile in Los Angeles. Situated next door to LACMA in a city that happens to be the number two tourist destination in the country, the new museum should draw plenty of traffic, but beyond a screening series and a few old props and posters under glass, the script has yet to be written on what a motion picture museum should be.
ATLANTA – This spring, the High Museum of Art will present “Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads,” an exhibition that celebrates the region’s self-taught artists and offers a rare look at how their worlds converged with contemporary American photography and literature.
From March 4-10, Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art Department is pleased to present Paper Jam: Contemporary Works on Paper, a curated exhibition of works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, George Condo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder and Eva Hesse.
Corrie & Nat break down Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "The Swing". The Babes discuss everything from the frilly pink dress to the clever details to the complicated story of the commission. Plus Corrie gets real into her feels about this cornerstone of the Rococo.
Moove over, Manhattan, cow coming through! And not just any cow, this one’s a molded plaster bovine sculpture drawn and painted by beloved children’s author/illustrator Maurice Sendak in the manner of his Caldecott Medal-winning book, Where the Wild Things Are.
Now in its 19th year at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, SCOPE is renowned for bringing cutting-edge contemporary artists and movements to the forefront. With 60 international exhibitors, talent from around the globe will be on show from March 7-10 in New York. Here is a sampling of 10 artists on the rise at this year’s SCOPE.
There is much to celebrate about the life and work of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the famed Dutch master. Prolific and ground-breaking in drawing, printmaking and painting, Rembrandt was adept at any of the subjects he tackled, from portraits, to still lives, landscapes and Biblical scenes. The Dutch are especially proud of their countryman, who despite never having left the Netherlands in his lifetime, has had a global influence.
On February 27, Freemans’s sold a rare work by the Master of the Embroidered Foliage for an impressive $2,470,000, setting a new world auction record for such a work. One of only 10 works attributed to the Master, the “Nursing Madonna” generated a great deal of inquiries from around the world.
