Riding the waves of history and biography, Annette Hur gives shape to passion, disillusion, longing, fear, and self-realization. Bridging her native South Korea and her adopted hometown of New York, she has embarked on a watery route from shore to shore, holding the extremities apart and in place, secured by an unbreakable psychological magnetism and the gravitational pull of the moon.
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Rome’s Trevi Fountain is the city’s largest Baroque fountain and a symbol of the revival of Ancient Roman technology and aesthetics. Connected to the city’s awe-inspiring ancient waterways, the fountain is an architectural wonder.
The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic and political movement that redefined Blackness in the United States as an act of liberation from post-antebellum discrimination and stereotypes, evidenced by Jim Crow laws and an abundance of blackface on-screen. Within this movement, Harlem in New York City served as the epicenter of Black philosophy, art, and music from the mid-1920s through the 1930s.
From Michelangelo's marble masterpiece to equally amazing but lesser-known works, here are some of the most fascinating representations of David in Renaissance and Baroque arts
I’d always been interested in Northern European painting, the earliest practitioners like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and all the supernumeraries that circulated around the Eyckian solar system—painting and sculpture from the Netherlands and Germany between 1330 to 1520 or so. As a painter myself during college and after, I had a great interest in the technical underpinnings as well as the subject matter.
In the spirit of the English poet Alexander Pope, art springs eternal, much like hope. Many artists have recognized the uplifting power of spring, particularly in times of societal and political upheaval. These ten artworks remind us that spring always follows winter's dark days of snow and ice.
A monumental 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas, Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), heads to Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction this May with an estimate of $45 million.
If you’ve ever attempted to take a photo of a work of art inside a museum, you’ll know that it isn’t always easy. How do you avoid the glare of a glazed painting? Will the power of an installation translate in your Instagram feed? And should you attempt to edit out the crowds standing around the object in question?
Acclaimed American sculptor, activist, and arts educator Augusta Savage (1892—1962) was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance who fought for equal rights for African American artists and inspired future generations as a teacher.
Gallery Despite their differences, both men are seen as highly original painters who challenged artistic norms. Their innovations raised the bar for landscape painting, inspiring their contemporaries Géricault and Delacroix, as well as the entire Barbizon School and the French Impressionists.
