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Norman Bluhm: The Greatest Abstract Expressionist You’ve Never Heard Of
Norman Bluhm is the greatest Abstract Expressionist painters you’ve never heard of. Or if you have heard of him, you’re part of a select group of aficionados.
Forging a New Art
What happens when artists imitate their imitators? By Jonathon Keats In the first few months of 1963, the Mona Lisa was seen by nearly two million people in New York and Washington, D.C. Shipped to the United States on a diplomatic mission – escorted by the French culture minister and received by President John F….
It’s Complicated
Wristwatches that do a lot more than tell time are very much of the moment. By Jonathon Keats On Christmas Day, 1969, Seiko introduced the Astron, the world’s first quartz wristwatch. While it wasn’t cheap—at 450,000 yen, it cost the same as a new Toyota—within several years, inexpensive Japanese quartz threatened to put traditional Swiss…
Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective: National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
In the National Gallery’s huge Lichtenstein retrospective, the iconic Pop images are just the opening frames of the artist’s lifelong comic strip.
Haarlem Renaissance
Cornelis van Haarlem, the “Dutch Michelangelo,” made history by painting it.
Swirling Silver
Art Nouveau metalworkers reveled in vines, leaves, fruit and the human figure, bringing nature’s forms to the dinner table.
Lucid Dreams & Nightmares
The intricate art of ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints, depicts the gruesome and the eerie in vivid, gorgeous detail.
Out of Darkness, Light
Born from the trauma of World War II, a unique kind of painting took form in San Francisco in the ’40s—abstract, expressionist, but totally different from the New York School.
The Storyteller
Romare Bearden, whose centennial celebration continues this fall, collaged diverse elements—visual, musical, literary and historical—into a unique American art.
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