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Freedom of the Press
The publishers that fostered a printmaking renaissance in the 1960s are every bit as active today, helping artists create original works and bring them to an ever-wider public.
Writ in Water
Before there was photography there was watercolor, a demanding medium that British artists mastered while documenting life and landscape at home and abroad. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) The most portable of paints created centuries of enduring views. Since the 18th century, watercolorists have packed up their brushes and worked near and far, recreating everything…
Screen Stars
Japanese folding screens, delicate but durable, enshrine centuries of painting tradition.
But Is It Human?
New finds in the caves of Spain raise the question of whether Neanderthals made art.
Piero della Francesca: A Formal Introduction
Piero della Francesca, who channeled mathematics into shapes and colors, gets his first one-man show in America.
Ethnographic Art: The Afterlife of Objects
Ethnographic specimens, windows on the soul, or harbingers of modern art—tribal artworks have appeared in many ways to Western eyes, as seen in two current museum shows.
Jet-Set Gems
Estate jewelry from the ’60s and ’70s is bold, colorful and experimental, just like the era that created it.
Bernini in Action
A revelatory show and a new book of historical detection help us take a fresh perspective on an old master – Bernini.
Graphic Design: A Dual Retrospective of Seymour Chwast and Paula Scher
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has given graphic designers Seymour Chwast and Paula Scher a dual retrospective — and let them create the installation themselves. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) Bold orange, gray, black and white arrows and a shiny text bubble—the type that might appear over a cartoon character’s head—reading “Double Portrait” are arranged…
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