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Gillian Laub, Mom and Dad with the wedding planner, 2008.
Gillian Laub Captures Sad Yet Familiar Familial Fracturing at ICP
“Look at those vulgar women in their fancy fur coats,” one of Gillian Laub’s photography classmates sneered during a smoke break. Laub nodded in agreement, that is, until the group excitedly rushed…
Alphonse Mucha, detail of Self-portrait with posters for Sarah Bernhardt at the studio in rue du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, circa 1901. Modern print from original glass plate negative. 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.
NCMA’s Dazzling Alphonse Mucha Show Lauds Art Nouveau Visionary
Through more than 100 objects thoughtfully selected from the Mucha Trust Collection, an illuminating spotlight is placed on lesser-known aspects of Alphonse Mucha—whose interests extended beyond the…
Jerrell Gibbs. I Only Have A Minute, 60 Seconds In It… Portrait of the Honorable Elijah Cummings. 2021. 
Courtesy of Jerrell Gibbs and Mariane Ibrahim
U. S. Capitol Portrait of the Late Elijah Cummings to Debut in Baltimore
The portrait was commissioned by Rockeymoore Cummings, his widow, in March 2021 and painted by Jerrell Gibbs, a Baltimore-based artist known for his portraits of African Americans. Gibbs was selected…
Hans Holbein the Younger, Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519. Mixed technique on panel 29.9 × 28.3 cm (11 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.).
Hans Holbein the Younger’s Timelessness Visible at the Getty
“A Holbein portrait is a very precise object,” says curator Anne Wollett. “It’s telling that when it comes to identity and the process of finding the right elements to include in the portrait some…
Robert Doisneau, Le baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris 1950.
Robert Doisneau is the Fisherman of Moments at Palazzo Roverella
Robert Doisneau, born in 1912 in Gentilly, became an amateur photographer at the age of sixteen. Throughout life, he was able to create and record a world full of wonder and possibilities, a state of…
Installation view Surrealism Beyond Borders.
Met's Ambitious "Surrealism Beyond Borders" Lacks Organization
Like politics, all art is local until it isn’t anymore, a point driven home by Surrealism Beyond Borders, the Met’s tour d’horizon of the global, half-century-long spread of Surrealism from its…
the Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center
Denver Art Museum Polishes Architectural Gems Old & New
The largest, most prevalent treasures of the Denver Art Museum are the DAM’s buildings designed by renowned architects: Gio Ponti and Daniel Libeskind. Ponti’s tile-covered high-rise with unusually…
©Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery
A Marvellous Entanglement: Isaac Julien & Lina Bo Bardi
By layering Bo Bardi’s own words with images of her buildings and artist interacting with them, Julien creates a non-linear biography, one that eschews straight facts in favor of feeling, allowing us…
Anna Burkhardt looks at Clara Porset’s Butaque
A Window into Latin American Craft Traditions

 

MoMA's Anna Burkhardt looks at Clara Porset’s Butaque (c. 1957) and sees both a pivotal Latin American design object and a window into the Mexican craft traditions that inspired it…

Installation View of Fervor: Illuminating the Spirit of Nature
Ana María Hernando & Yoshitomo Saito Exhibitions Inspire Comparison
In a perfectly paired yin-yang juxtaposition of exhibitions, two artists—Ana María Hernando and Yoshitomo Saito—show works inspired by nature, yet rendered in extremely different media.…
Jasper Johns, Flashlight, 1960 (cast c. 1979). Bronze and glass, 4 3/4 × 7 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (12.1 × 19.7 × 10.8 cm). Ed. no. 2/3.
“Mind/Mirror” Distills Jasper Johns’ Tantalizingly Enigmatic Oeuvre
Halfway through the sixth decade of his career, Jasper Johns’s output has been prodigious enough to demand a retrospective hosted by not one, but two institutions: The Whitney and The Philadelphia…
"To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour"
How Chance Can Bring Unexpected Delights - Marcel Duchamp

 

Emily Bahret, production assistant on MoMA's Creative Team, talks about her first encounter with Marcel Duchamp’s "To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye,…

glass display at museum
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano

 

detail of rock photograph
Photography Collecting Tips at the VMFA

Here's a look at 5 photographs with Studio School instructor Frank Saunders at the VMFA.

the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Premiers After Long Stall
After numerous delays due to COVID and personnel changes, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally opened on September 30 after a weeklong lead-up that included a gala, an opening night party…