Archive for September 2014
The Eye in the Wild State
A new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art searches for the surrealistic touches in photography of the 1920s through ’40s.
Read MoreThe Purist
Abstractionist Tomma Abts lets her paintings paint themselves, and the results are intricate, challenging, and beautiful.
Read MoreThe Lalique Mystique
French designer-entrepreneur René Lalique was a wizard who could make glass do just about anything—and die-hard devotees of his works will do just about anything to get them.
Read MoreSolo Goya
A new exhibition explores the variety of Goya’s preoccupations—from war to witchcraft, royalty to riffraff.
Read MoreThe Aristocrats
They were wealthy, privileged, and rigorously formalist. But the “Park Avenue Cubists” believed that the most sophisticated art should be available to everyone.
Read MoreCharles Burchfield: Back to Nature
After a detour into social realism, Charles Burchfield returned to his first love, landscape painting, but with new techniques that let the viewer partake of the artist’s mystical, multi-sensory experience.
Read MoreInterior Design
During the Italian Renaissance, artists indulged their love of architecture by building elaborate structures in paint.
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