Art News

This summer, the Yale Center for British Art will present an exhibition devoted to one of the earliest forms of photography and a British invention. Salt and Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860 will explore the dissemination of salt prints across early centers of photographic production in Europe and North America.

Trevor Paglen blurs the lines between art, science, and investigative journalism to construct unfamiliar and at times unsettling ways to see and interpret the world around us. Inspired by the landscape tradition, he captures the same horizon seen by American photographers Timothy O’Sullivan in the nineteenth century and Ansel Adams in the twentieth.

Dr. Christopher D.M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Dr. Beth Harris discuss Rogier van der Weyden's The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning  (c. 1460, oil on panel, left panel 180.3 × 92.2 cm, right panel 180.3 × 92.5 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art).

The Brooklyn Museum is proud to announce the reinstallment of its acclaimed relief sculpture The Resurrection of Christ, by Renaissance artist Giovanni della Robbia, on view now in the Museum's 3rd floor Focus Gallery.  The Resurrection was created around 1520 and was commissioned by the Antinori family, historical Tuscan vintners since 1385. Nearly 400 years later, The Resurrection became the first Renaissance work to enter the Museum's collection when it was acquired in 1899. 

This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016), a masterful video installation by artist, filmmaker, and award-winning cinematographer Arthur Jafa.

A powerful new exhibition at New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery, Ravelled Threads brings together work by ten African artists utilizing fabric in different ways. Cloth has cultural and spiritual significance throughout Africa, with a long history of use in storytelling, historical record keeping, political activism, and cultural expression.

Sir Quentin Blake, the illustrator of Roald Dahl's 'The Big Friendly Giant', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and many other books offers us a rare glimpse of his creative process.

At an exhibition opening this week, the Broad Museum of Art celebrates some of its latest acquisitions. Having only opened in 2015, the Broad has a collection of more than 2,000 contemporary works, including some of the most prominent artists working today. A Journey That Wasn't groups together 50 works representing 20 artists in the permanent collection, several of which are being displayed in the museum for the first time.

This weekend, the Walker Art Center will commission French conceptual artist Daniel Buren to design and produce "Voile/Toile – Toile/Voile" specifically for Minneapolis, a city known for its urban lakes, waterfalls and rivers. Its first US premiere, this two-part work will be comprised of a public performance in the form of a sailboat regatta on Lake Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska, featuring the artist’s custom-made, signature-striped sails, and an outdoor installation of the sails, hanging in the Cowles Pavilion in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

An exhibition that defies patriarchal modes of looking, Multiply, Identify, Her is currently on view at the International Center of Photography. Curated by Marina Chao, who was inspired by late photographer and Chicana feminist Laura Aguilar, the exhibition assembles portrait, photo collage, and video among other digital media.