1 hr ago | Sag Harbor Online
Digging for Gold in the Archives
Helen A. Harrison When the Archives of American Art invited me to be the guest curator of a show celebrating Jackson Pollock's 100 th birthday, I jumped at the chance to dig into the original documents.
3 hrs ago | Deseret News
Chicago's MCA debuts 1980s exhibit
A new exhibit about the 1980s is opening at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring interpretations of icons like Ronald Reagan, Andy Warhol and Jesse Jackson, along with pieces that reflect on important issues from the decade: drug use, nuclear proliferation, AIDS and feminism.
3 hrs ago | LA Weekly
What Happens When You Look at One Painting for an Hour?
Seven years ago, artist Nuttaphol Ma spent three hours staring at a painting he hated.
7 hrs ago | Star-Telegram.com
Double dose of Russell watercolors is revealing
The artwork of Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington is often lumped together in a giant mass -- a herd of Western art -- mixing oil paints with watercolors, drawings with bronzes and letting the whole R&R brand represent the genre.
9 hrs ago | Marion Star
Celebration of self-taught Ohio mosaic artist
CHILLICOTHE - Throughout the past 52 years, self-taught mosaic artist Phil Evanoff quietly has amassed a staggering body of work in the basement of his Chillicothe home.
13 hrs ago | The Digital Collegian
Pair of painting exhibits on display at Palmer Museum of Art
According to the Palmer Museum's official website, the former is a collection of American Scene paintings that date from the early to In a didactic panel, or a plaque that provides information about the artwork on display, Palmer Museum of Art Curator Joyce Robinson said the artwork represents "a diverse array of Depression-era figurative paintings ... (more)
WHEN she left North Carolina 23 years ago, Beverly McIver never imagined returning.
Painting Long Beach In Positive Perspectives
Long Beach has a distinctly vibrant art community, and one of its members who emerged there during the 1970s played a significant role in putting it on the aesthetic map.
Nazi-looted painting must go back to heirs
A painting seized from a Florida museum must be returned to the heirs of its former Jewish owner, a court ruled.
French painting by Jean-Honor Fragonard to be on display at Kimbell Art Museum
Jean-HonorA© Fragonard, The Warrior , c. 1769, oil on canvas. A© Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
I don't know if Joerg knew at the time he first tweeted about it--he is plugged in and German, so who knows?--but I certainly had no idea when I picked up on the topic of Gerhard Richter "destroying" paintings by painting over them.
Six historical paintings at Houston's federal courthouse have raised some hackles with two federal judges, who believe the paintings dredge up offensive imagery of slavery.
Shena Bulcock at The Gallery, Chard
Shena Bulcock, who has lived in the area since 1971, was welcomed to the launch of the exhibition on Tuesday, January 31, by a number of supporters and members of the art community.
Staniar Gallery Presents Trisha Orr's Poem Paintings
The exhibition Painted Words: From Object to Subject, featuring works by Charlottesville artist Trisha Orr, opens in Washington and Lee's Staniar Gallery on Feb.
'There's nothing traditional left in Murcia - no earrings or jewelry . . . everything is lost, nothing remains, not even a simple cap I'd hoped to find." So wrote the Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, in 1918, to his wife, Clotilde.
Conservatives Worry Romney's Vision Is Cloudy
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's losses on Tuesday, while not very meaningful in the race to accumulate delegates, have raised questions once again about his ability to inspire passion from his party's base and about his viability in the general election.
NY Historical Society paintings at CBMAA
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will show 45 masterworks by Hudson River School artists when "The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision" opens May 5 in the temporary galleries where Wonder World is now.
Seven decades of Lucian Freud on show in London
Britain's National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud's work on Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made him one of the world's most revered artists in his lifetime.
Censored Chinese artist's photos coming to NYC
Liu Xia is a forbidden artist whose work is censored in her native China. The photographer, who is under house arrest, uses life-like dolls as metaphors for the pain and suffering of the Chinese people.
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