Essential viewing for anyone with an interest in landscape painting, this exhibit explores the creative process behind the artist's work.
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
My favorite anecdote about the painter John Constable (1776-1837) concerns the hare that can be seen running across the foreground of his large watercolor "Stonehenge" (1835), one of the highlights of this new show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ...
The exhibition includes some of the most audacious later works by the British painter who paved the way for the Impressionists and Abstract-Expressionists.
Frances WilsonLondon,
Come the end of this year, London will have hosted three major exhibitions focusing on the late works of three highly significant artists — Rembrandt, Matisse and Turner — offering audiences and critics the opportunity to appreciate and reflect on ...
Ed Paschke’s Art Finds a New Home in His Old Neighborhood
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
The work of a Chicago artist who won national and international fame is settled in at a small museum on the far northwest side of Chicago, the neighborhood where he grew up.
Ed Paschke, whose vividly colored and brilliantly ...
The newly refurbished museum's First World War Galleries invite visitors to explore and ponder the "war to end all wars."
Frances WilsonLondon,
London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM London) has reopened after a £40 million ($68 million) refurbishment, its first since the 1980s. The result is a sleek, lofty interior designed by Foster & Partners housing a spacious and attractive museum that invites ...
This interesting (if scientific) exhibit offers a workmanlike description of how colors are achieved in many art forms – with little exploration of the creative process that informs the use of color in those fields.
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
Ultramarine is a blue pigment derived from a semi-precious stone, lapis lazuli. During the Renaissance period, lapis lazuli was more highly prized than gold, and with good reason: its only source was in the remote province of Badhakhshan in northeast ...
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
There's something deeply reassuring about a show that has been held every year, without interruption, since 1769. Wars and revolutions may come and go — indeed, entire civilizations may rise and fall — but the annual Royal Academy of Arts ...
Emily S. MendelCA,
While the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. D. C. is being renovated, the de Young Museum is the fortunate venue of the outstanding modern art collection donated by real estate developer, Robert Meyerhoff and his ...
A Scavenger Hunt for Visitors, Fans and Obsessives
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Chicago is known for its iconic classic and contemporary architecture, as well as for its famous and eccentric architects, such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Perhaps because of that environment, many Chicagoans are ...
This compact examination of how Italian artists tackled architecture demonstrates that buildings played a more important role in 14th- to 16th-century art than previously thought.
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
"Building the Picture" is about the bit of an Italian Renaissance painting that often seems to be jostling with the figures for pictorial space: the architectural background. In fact, as curators Amanda Lillie and Caroline Campbell convincingly demonstrate, buildings played ...
Tate Modern and MoMA offer a comprehensive exhibit of the artist's breakout technique.
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
Old age is no respecter of genius. True, there have been some artists — Goya, for example, or Monet — who managed one final great surge of creativity, but the sad fact is that far more end up plagiarizing themselves, ...
