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Young Victorian Punks
Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art mounts a sweeping exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—the first U.S. retrospective of its kind.
Helen Frankenthaler: Beyond the Sea
The late Helen Frankenthaler famously “departed” from Jackson Pollock with her early stain paintings in the 1950s, but she kept on making departures for the rest of her long, innovative career.
Dynamic Ceramics
With changing tastes, growing interest from China’s middle class and ancient objects emerging from the ground, there are some new opportunities in the hugely diverse realm of Chinese earthenware.
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.
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