Art News

Host Jennifer Dasal explores the history behind Munch's "The Scream" in this episode of A Little Curious

Statue of a Victorious Youth, one of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s prized possessions, is facing a new threat after 40 years at the Villa. Earlier this week Italy’s supreme court, the Court of Cassation, ordered the Getty to return the bronze statue, dated to 300-100 B.C., claiming the object as belonging to Italy’s cultural heritage. 

This week the Tate Britain announced Charlotte Prodger as the winner of its 34th annual Turner Prize, which is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year.

In this rare interview, photographer Robert Frank discusses his seminal book The Americans (1958). He reflects on specific images from the series and gives insight into his process at the time.

Alex Da Corte creates vibrant and immersive large-scale installations that include wall-based works, sculptures, and videos. Colorful and surreal, his work combines personal narrative, art-historical references, pop-culture characters, and the glossy aesthetics of commercial advertising to reveal the humor, absurdity, and psychological complexity of the images and stories that pervade our culture.

Explore Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" up close, and see how it's different (and not) from a high-res 3D print of the painting. We visit the Mauritshuis in The Hague and learn what happens when conservation scientists study the painting with today's most advanced technology.

Where do artists come from? An answer explored through paper, percussion, and one provocative artist.

This famous image is packed with meaning. Find out what each of these objects symbolizes, and how they relate to the overall theme of melancholy.

In this episode of The ArtCurious Podcast, host Jennifer Dasal explores the shocking history of Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son."

The Art History Babes take it back to pre-history and discuss the work of our earliest art makers. Join us for some notable examples of Paleolithic art including: Venus of Willendorf, Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine, the Lascaux Caves and more.