Old Masters

Art, nature, and a sense of timelessness converge at quiet Meridiano, a contemplative, experimental, open-air art gallery in Mexico’s Oaxaca region By Jean Nayar Completed only two years ago, Meridiano, an enchanting new exhibition space in Mexico, looks as though it could have been constructed by the region’s indigenous Zapotecs, when they flourished in Oaxaca…

Three masterful still lifes by the 17th-century master of the genre, Pieter Claesz, are now on display at the Kunsthistoriches Museum, in Vienna, each relating an active story  By David Masello There’s an art to setting the table and Pieter Claesz knew how to do it. In his home and painting studio in Haarlem in…

Grandma Moses became every American’s grandma through her quaint and poignant depictions of American life and landscapes By Ashley Busby In her 1952 autobiography, My Life’s History, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, wrote, “If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens. I could still do it now. I would never sit back in a…

Cakes & Pies (1995) Self-described “art thief” Wayne Thiebaud made a case for appropriating from masterworks and styles—as a way to forge his own iteration of art. By Patti Zielinski “It’s hard for me to think of artists who weren’t influential on me because I’m such an obsessive thief,” Wayne Thiebaud once unapologetically told The…

A lotus-inspired design for a competition commemorating the 2500th anniversary of the birth of Buddhism in New Delhi Marking its 40th anniversary, The Noguchi Museum in New York revisits the original vision of its founder, Isamu Noguchi By Fred Voon Scattered across Western Europe are single-artist museums that were founded by 20th-century masters during their…

Summer Stillness (16” x 24”) By David Masello Andrew Orr spends much time with his subjects before committing them to a gesso- or oil-primed panel. While the painter of landscapes might initially be captivated by a stand of trees reflected in a river or clouds hitting a mountain or the circuitous path a dirt road…

It might have taken a few centuries, but works by the Dutch flower painter Rachel Ruysch are now in full bloom in a traveling exhibition that celebrates her legacy By Ashley Busby In 1750, just months before her death, a book of poems celebrated the life and accomplishments of flower painter Rachel Ruysch, heaping praise…

Art Deco celebrates its centennial this year. Art & Antiques’s DAVID MASELLO examines the effect the movement first had on him in Chicago and how it affects him still in his long-adopted city of New York where the style is omnipresent. It’s one of Chicago’s most alluring sites: the limestone facade of the Chicago Board…

Whenever she is painting, Vivian Tsao is immersed in deep conversation. It’s not with a fellow artist or even with herself, but, rather, with the natural light that streams through the windows of her Brooklyn home, a century-old, two-story townhouse on a shady street in the neighborhood known as Windsor Terrace. “I am always dialoguing…