Posts by Art & Antiques Magazine
Pre-Raphaelite Drawing
Released in conjunction with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery’s major exhibition “The Poetry of Drawing,” the book reproduces the most comprehensive assembly of pre-Raphaelite works on paper to date.
Read MoreWe’ll Always Have Paris
“For the perfect flaneur,” wrote Charles Baudelaire in The Painter of Modern Life (1863), “for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”
Read MoreLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press
Sons of famous fathers have a hard time. Typically the old lion cuffs the cub for daring to innovate, but in the case of Lucien Pissarro (1863–1944) the problem was just the opposite: His father, Camille, the West Indies-born Franco-Jewish Impressionist, repeatedly scolded him for being old-fashioned.
Read MoreMr. Deeds Goes to Town
At the Outsider Art Fair in New York this past February, a new artist made a much-heralded debut appearance. Of course, he wasn’t exactly new, considering that the drawings were obviously made before World War II, but his work had remained outside the Outsider scene until quite recently.
Read MoreInto The Woods
Inside the Kröller-Müller Museum, deep in the Dutch countryside, lies one of the world’s great Van Gogh collections, and behind it lies one of the great stories of 20th-century collecting.
Read MoreThe Afterlife of Eva Hesse
The mutable materials of the artist’s sculptures are continuing the creative process that she began.
Read MoreWhat’s On Your Plate?
Bookplates are tiny marvels of the printmaker’s art, and a fascinating adjunct to rare-book collecting.
Read MoreCreation and Conservation
Art & Antiques visits the New York studio of Daisy Craddock, where art and art restoration go hand in hand.
Read MoreRomantic Russia
Technically masterful and emotionally rich, late 19th-century Russian painting drew on tradition while foreshadowing the avant garde.
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