Old Masters

Preston Singletary: Native Language

Preston Singletary merges contemporary art glass with Northwest Coast tradition.

In Japan, a veteran collector preserves ancient artworks and an aesthete’s sensibility.

From classic to contemporary, regional to global, discoveries abound in the Southeast’s art capital.

The first major retrospective of Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo comes to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Classical Chinese ink-and-brush paintings embody millennia of tradition as well as the freshness of the human encounter with nature.

The painters of the Hudson River School helped define who we are as Americans, as a comprehensive exhibition makes luminously clear.

Enrico Donati, acclaimed as “The Last Surrealist,” kept the impulse of Surrealism flowing through eight decades of work in a plethora of styles.

In an “atemporal” age, a new exhibition proposes, painters can—and do—make art from an anything-goes grab bag of styles and attitudes.

Pushing their materials and sometimes their bodies to the limits, Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga helped redefine art in postwar Japan.