Before she was world-renowned as a pioneering feminist artist, Judy Chicago worked in abstraction, using pastel hues to form geometric patterns. A new survey at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, shows the artist moving into figurative works, finding a clear voice to explore the feminist themes that would come to define her work.
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After several planned unveilings, the Louvre Abu Dhabi has so far declined to display Salvator Mundi — or even confirm its whereabouts.
Join curators Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić as they examine the architecture that emerged in Yugoslavia in the decades following WWII—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”—manifestations of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself.
Curator Nicole Rousmaniere discusses the Manga collected by the British Museum.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery follows two popular exhibitions with the ninth installment of their invitational biennial. Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 continues the work of WONDER (their debut exhibit after a years-long renovation, which filled the museum with large-scale installations) and No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man (on view through January 21, 2019) by continuing to redefine craft.
Curator Sushma Jansari reckons she's in charge of 'one of the most important objects in the entire British Museum' - and she's not wrong. The Bimaran Casket currently holds the record for the earliest dateable depiction of the Buddha in human form.
The magnificence of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the great repositories of the world’s cultures as expressed in its art and material objects, defies the limits of categorization. Its treasures reach across the millennia and around the globe in its effort to capture every type of art, in every medium, made by humans since before recorded history. Now, in one exhibition, Jewelry, the Body Transformed, it has attempted to bring all of those disparate cultures together in one overarching exhibition.
How do conservators attribute paintings to artists? Zahira Bomford, senior conservator of paintings, discusses "Kitchen Maid," a 17th-century painting that has been in the MFAH collection for decades but only recently was firmly attributed to Spanish master Diego Velázquez.
The seams of high fashion, fine art and edgy architecture overlap at Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) recently unveiled exclusive exhibition: Dior: From Paris to the World. The first major House of Dior retrospective in the U.S. runs through March 3, spotlighting 70 years of Dior with more than 200 haute couture dresses, glamorous accessories, legendary fashion photography and coordinated paintings.
Gustav Klimt’s richly decorative painting style and exquisite draughtsmanship made him one of the most distinctive artists of early Modernism. Step into his world in this short video, presented by the Royal Academy's Artistic Director Tim Marlow.