Archive for April 2015
Kurt Seligmann: The Magus in the Mirror
The Surrealist painter and occultist writer Kurt Seligmann is having his first retrospective in 55 years.
Read MoreWood Sculpture: In the American Grain
Contemporary wood artists are letting their medium escape from functionality and traditional craft concepts into realms of pure form, texture, and color.
Read MoreCzech Art Glass Movement: All-Star Cast
Nurtured by a Communist regime in the mid-20th century, the Czech art glass movement continues to astound the world in the 21st.
Read MoreChicago Museums: Windy City Wonders
From Audubon prints to Imagist painting to Asian antiquities, Chicago has offerings for all tastes.
Read MoreSebastiao Salgado: The Eye of the Heart
Sebastião Salgado’s visually stunning photographs accord equal respect to suffering humanity and primal nature.
Read MorePeter Paul Rubens: Weaving a Narrative
In the service of the Catholic Church and the Spanish royal family, Peter Paul Rubens conceived a cycle of religious images, painted them, and had them rendered as sumptuous tapestries, now on view in a once-in-a lifetime traveling exhibition.
Read MoreJohn Marin: The Romantic Cubist
Rejecting urbanism and irony, John Marin used European avant-garde methods to make a quintessentially American art.
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