In satirist James Gillray’s 1801 illustration A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique, the expert’s body is a stand-in for his skill. His…
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What is a studio? We might wonder, as we examine how and where James Hyde conceives and produces his probing and various artworks. When it comes to the Brooklyn-based artist’s…
A good art magazine should do more than show beautiful things. It should help readers understand why those things matter.
The art world is full of wonderful things to discover, but it can also be hard to keep up. New exhibitions open, artists gain attention, auctions make headlines, museums announce major shows…
The Louvre has weathered both revolutions and…
This past February, the Art Institute of Chicago became the recipient of a transformational gift, approximately 2,250 works of French art spanning the 16th through 19th centuries,…
The word salon has a rich history of its own and was even used to indicate several different things within France in this period including an elite social gathering often led by a woman, a large…
As the final stretch to the Winter Olympics comes into…
From New York and Detroit to London and Basel, leading museums are staging major exhibitions devoted to canonical modernist masters at a moment when our world is as uncertain and…
Imagine that you have just purchased the most eye-catching painting you’ve ever seen. It’s a beauty, a…
Upon reopening this April, The Frick Collection in New York will welcome visitors to climb its grand staircase—or ride one of its newly-installed elevators—to the second floor for…
A fascinating exhibition at the Tate Modern in London reflected on the history of art and electronics before the advent of the internet. Electric Dreams…
With its origins in late Medieval art and religious culture, the word “Gothic” conjures the dark, the mysterious, or the otherworldly. A international exhibition, Gothic Modern: From Darkness…
Born in the late nineteenth century, Modernism sought to challenge conventional institutions of its time. The late nineteenth century saw a shifting European political structure, with the birth of…
“In this search for my own identity, I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind and the enigma of the horizon…
