Fin de siècle Vienna. A city fizzing with avant-garde intellectualism and “new” music. The city of Freud, Mahler and Schoenberg….
Art & Architecture
Who Are You?, the question that forms the title of this new exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery, is one,…
His hand rests affectionately on her bosom; she acknowledges his gesture with a gentle caress. Although it’s called “The Jewish…
The wide-ranging influence of Victorian designer, artist, furniture-maker, poet and social reformer William Morris is explored in a new exhibition…
Typical. You wait ages for an exhibition to do with a major post-1945 German artist, then two arrive at once….
“David Bowie Is” Chicago Exhibit Reveals a Cultural Icon, Beyond the Pop David Bowie was born September 16, 1965. Actually,…
Anselm Kiefer was born in Germany in 1945. A war baby (just) he grew up among the ruins of a…
My favorite anecdote about the painter John Constable (1776-1837) concerns the hare that can be seen running across the foreground…
Come the end of this year, London will have hosted three major exhibitions focusing on the late works of three…
The work of a Chicago artist who won national and international fame is settled in at a small museum…
London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM London) has reopened after a £40 million ($68 million) refurbishment, its first since the 1980s….
Ultramarine is a blue pigment derived from a semi-precious stone, lapis lazuli. During the Renaissance period, lapis lazuli was more…
There’s something deeply reassuring about a show that has been held every year, without interruption, since 1769. Wars and revolutions…
While the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. D. C. is being renovated, the de Young…