Arhat (Luohan), Liao Dynasty, c. 1000, glazed stoneware, 41¼” h., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Eric Parker via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is running a series of short videos called “82nd & Fifth” that feature a curator talking about a work of art in the museum. The videos are beautifully produced with incredible photographic details of the … Continue reading
Robert Capa, D-Day: June 6, 1944: Allied Invasion of Normandy, Photo by Templar1307 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.
In the early morning of D-Day, Robert Capa arrived at Omaha Beach on a landing craft to photograph Company E as it attacked the German troops that were firing machine guns from somewhere amid clouds of smoke on the French … Continue reading
James Turrell, Skyspace, Air Apparent, ASU Campus, Tempe, AZ, Photo by pweil via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribition Non-Commercial 2.0 Generic License.
From June 21st through September 25th 2013, James Turrell will sheath Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda inside the Guggenheim Museum in New York City with a massive work of art. Turrell, who explores visual perceptions of light and color in … Continue reading
Philip Johnson and Mark Rothko, The Rothko Chapel, 1971, Houston, TX, Photo by Darren Milligan via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
If you find yourself in Houston, TX, where there is a lot of great art to see, consider making the time to visit the Rothko Chapel. The famous modern architect Philip Johnson designed the octagonal building, but the building is … Continue reading
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It looks like this refined watercolor of a clump of turf was done on the spot – the artist, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, sitting outside in a meadow; however, Dürer painted it in his studio probably after arranging the … Continue reading
Portrait of the Roman Emperor Caligula, 37-41 CE, marble, 13” x 8¼” x 9¼”, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Photo by Jacqueline Poggi via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.
After nearly ten years years, Yale University has opened the doors to a $135 million renovation and expansion of their art museum that combines three older art galleries into one, creating one space of over 64,000 square feet in which … Continue reading
Jasper Johns, Map, 1961, oil on canvas, 6' 6" x 10' 3 1/8", Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo by neutralSurface via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.
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Glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly set in the Dallas Arboretum, Photo by chrissam42 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2.0 Generic License.
The exhibition of Dale Chihuly’s gorgeous glass sculptures at the Dallas Arboretum that was slated to close next week now will be open through the end of the year. Brian Shivers, chairman of the board for the Dallas Arboretum, said the extension … Continue reading
William Hogarth, Tête à Tête from Marriage à la Mode, 1743, oil on canvas, 27.6” x 35.8”, National Gallery of Art, London, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
William Hogarth was a rebel. He rebelled against the art academy and he had something to say about London society in the mid-eighteenth century. He didn’t like the nouveau-riche middle class, nor did he care for the gentry. His mode … Continue reading
Madinat al-Zahara workshop, Al-Mughira’s pyxis, 968 CE, ivory, 5.9” high, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The Musée du Louvre recently opened the doors to their new 32,000 square foot gallery space filled with Islamic art. It is the first big addition to the building since I. M. Pei’s glass pyramids were finished in 1993. Nearly … Continue reading
Winslow Homer, The Fox Hunt, 1893, oil on canvas, 38” x 68½”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Winslow Homer, the American Realist painter, lived and worked in his studio at Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine for nearly thirty years before he died, creating many of his most memorable paintings such as The Fox Hunt. Today, this studio will … Continue reading
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962, each canvas 20” x 16”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo by Gwenaël Piser via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.
Next week on September 18th, an exhibition entitled, “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibition explores Andy Warhol’s influence on contemporary art with many works by Warhol himself … Continue reading