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Asher B. Durand, Summer Evening, 1865.
10 Paintings That Capture the Art of Summer

Sun, sand, sky, water, and women predominate as subject matter when artists throughout history turned their attention to communicating the light, languid heat, and soft sensuality of long…

Gallery view of Vermeer's Love Letters
The Frick Sustains its Oldest Affair in Vermeer’s Love Letters

Just two months ago, New York City’s Frick Collection…

Caravaggio 2025 Installation View
Caravaggio: The Shakespeare of Painting

Let us start with black and red, galactic black and blue-based crimson– void and blood, dead and living. Add to that, intense emotion: horror and ecstasy, revulsion and reverence, debauchery…

Milt Kobayashi Lavender and Strawberries Oil 18” x 18” $12,300
Meyer Gallery's Summer Exhibition Series

This summer, Meyer Gallery presents four solo exhibitions by Eric G. Thompson, Milt  Kobayashi, William C. Hook, and Francis Livingston. Each show highlights a painter whose…

Two of the four lions in Trafalgar Square, one of the Landseer’s most famous works. At the base of Nelson's Column, 2021. License
An Exploration of Edwin Landseer’s “Man Proposes, God Disposes”

During the Victorian era, one name constantly echoed within the walls of every English art enthusiast was Edwin Landseer (1802 – 1873). Son of John Landseer, an engraver and writer…

Installation view of Sargent and Paris , on view April 27 – August 3, 2025 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Hyla Skopitz , courtesy of The Met
Sargent & Paris: The Early Days of a Painter

Now on view at the Met, Sargent & Paris, as the…

Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan, New York.
Marlene Dumas Painting Expected to Break Auction Record

Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art Sales are…

The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives at Dovecot Studios.
Scottish Colourists: Challenging Conventional Art

The exhibition Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives opened at Dovecot…

Amy Sherald, American Grit, 2024. Oil on linen, 95 × 76 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (241.3 × 194.3 × 6.35 cm).
The Whitney Reintroduces Amy Sherald: The New Miss Americana

This April, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens Amy Sherald: American Sublime, and…

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. March 30, 2025 to September 7, 2025, Ann and Graham Gund Gallery
A Revisioning of Van Gogh’s Portraiture at MFA Boston

On March 30, 2025, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston…

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Café at Royan, Royan, 15 August 1940, Oil on canvas 97 × 130 cm, Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979.
A Compilation of Sketches in "Picasso: The Royan Sketchbooks"

It was 1939, just two years after Picasso painted his anti-war…

Christina Ramberg, Untitled (Hair), 1968, Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's hand painted wood frame, 17.8 × 51.5 cm (7×20 1/4 in.)
Fashioning Christina Ramberg’s Paintings

The visual directness of Christina Ramberg’s paintings can be misleading. Take Shady Lacy (1971), which shows the back of a shapely figure dressed in a…

Keita MorimotoUnseen Passage, 2025Acrylic and oil on linen162 x 259 x 4 cm63 3/4 x 102 x 1 1/2 in
Keita Morimoto Captures Urban Nightscapes in To Nowhere and Back

Japanese painter Keita Morimoto's first solo exhibition, To…

Third Way, oil and acrylic paint, putty, shellac on canvas, 2023
A Multimedia Art Talk with Jim Shrosbree

Iowa-based multimedia artist Jim Shrosbree won a prestigious …

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, detail of The Glorification of the Royal Hungarian Saints, ca. 1772–73
A Brief History of the Grisaille Technique
Grisaille made a name for itself in European artwork. Literally meaning “greyness” in French from the prefix gris, the method reached its peak of prominence during the sixteenth century. The…