Now on view at the Met, Sargent & Paris, as the title eludes, explores artist John Singer Sargent’s time living in Paris from 1874 through 1885, before he moved to London.
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The internet age has made full-color imagery overwhelmingly accessible. This is to such an extent that it can be difficult to remember that, at the time these featured illustrations were created, today's accessibility to color did not exist.
203 Fine Art and the Estates of Lee Mullican & Luchita Hurtado present a selection of paintings from the 1950s by the celebrated Taos Modern, Lee Mullican (1919-1998). These abstracted paintings, dated 1956 to 1958, were created shortly after Mullican’s move to Los Angeles, marking a subtle yet striking shift in his practice.
The artistic creations and advancements of Ancient Greece have undoubtedly had profound and lasting effects on the development of later art production, particularly within the western canon.
In June of 1972, a photograph was snapped as a group of children charged through the streets near the town of Trảng Bàng in Vietnam. The terror in their faces depicts the aftermath of a napalm bomb dropped by a plane from the South Vietnam Air Force on a group of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
Multi-dimensional artist Kiah Celeste (1994) reappropriates found objects, gleaning material from urban and industrial environments, to build sculpture and framed wall pieces into surreal amalgamations that seem at once organic and urbane. Her sculptural process can be very physically demanding, and this physicality is an important part of her creation process.
Art Nouveau was inspired by nature, spurred on by the Arts and Crafts movement, and served as a fundamental reaction against Industrialization.
Internationally renowned Ugandan multidisciplinary artist Acaye Kerunen combines storytelling, writing, acting, and activism in her performances and installations. Kerunen collaborated with Collin Sekajugo on the Uganda Pavilion’s inaugural installation at the 2022 Venice Biennale, for which they received the Special Mention award for Best National Participation.
Pharaoh Hatshepsut (Hat-shep-soot) (c. 1505–1458 BC), who ruled Egypt over 3,500 years ago, commissioned art and architecture as a part of her leadership strategy. She was the wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II who ironically had fallen to the wayside of history due to the greater visibility of his more illustrious father, Thutmose I, and Hatshepsut. History rarely favors the wives of famous men.
Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art Sales are taking place this week at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Tonight, May 14th, the auction house’s 21st Century Evening Sale is expected to witness a revolutionary record-break by South African artist and painter Marlene Dumas.
