Impressionism

A survey of late paintings and sculptures by Mokha Laget is on view in Washington, D.C. By D. Dominick Lombardi The summer of 2022 is a very special time for Mokha Laget. Her first exhibition in a commercial gallery was held in 1981 at the Jack Rasmussen Gallery in Washington, D.C. Today, Jack Rasmussen is…

Lush and enchanting gardens were a continual muse for Spanish artists Sorolla and Vicente whose careers spanned different centuries. By Lilly Wei “The Light in the Garden” is a beguiling title for this equally beguiling exhibition of garden paintings. It should be especially welcomed by all of us eager to return to lazy summer days…

The exhibition Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America recounts an oft-overlooked area of art history. By James D. Balestrieri “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800”, the new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), doesn’t trade in cautionary tales—indeed, it takes pains not…

In the early 20th-century, American modernists challenged conventional art norms by painting emotional and design-filled images of the times. By Barbara A. MacAdam At the “Dawn of a New Age: Early 20th-Century American Modernism” opened May 7 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This illuminating show of modernist American works created between 1900 and…

The artistic and cultural exchanges between Iran, Greece and Rome are demonstrated in the artworks they produced. By Henry Adams The artistic riches of the Persian Empire, which dominated western Asia for over a thousand years, form the subject of the exhibition “Persia: Ancient Iran and theClassical World” that just opened at the Getty Villa…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition on Winslow Homer situates his artwork within its period and reflects on history By Sarah Bochicchio For over a century, Winslow Homer has been canonized as one of the great American painters, if not the single greatest among them. His brooding Turner-esque seascapes, his seemingly playful images of beachside…

The American abstract painter Paul Jenkins pulled streams of color through his canvases in a quest to depict the ever-changing nature of reality. By Rebecca Allan Paul Jenkins (1923–2012) liberated the materials of his art in such a way that oil, watercolor, and acrylic paints and canvases became mutable elements for the expression of his…

A once-in-a-generation retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago invites us to contemplate  the reasons for Cézanne’s profound and ongoing influence. By Rebecca Allan In Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park with George, the character of Dot, an artist’s model, sings to the painter Georges Seurat, “Give us more to see!” Dot’s understanding of…

The martial aesthetic of the samurai is the theme of a new museum opening this month in Berlin. By John Dorfman In a utilitarian age, it is hard for us to imagine that the accoutrements of war could be beautiful. But for the Japanese in the age of feudalism, arms and armor were the subject…