This Exhibition Dedicated to the Boldest Hue Will Have You Seeing Red
The Nassau County Museum of Art is opening a show dedicated to the ubiquity of red. The vast differences in how artists have deployed the colour in their works over the years will be explored, from Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s muted portrait of a young girl wearing a brick-red dress, to the vibrant silkscreen print by Andy […]
Art Bites: The Fire That Destroyed MoMA’s First Monet Acquisition
MoMA owns four Monets. Three are on view in the permanent collection galleries on the fifth floor, the largest of which is a sprawling, curved display from the French Impressionist’s Water Lilies series. But, the famous canvas wasn’t the museum’s first choice. In 1955, MoMA became the first U.S. institution to acquire one of Monet’s […]
The Honolulu School That Quietly Nurtured Hawaiis Top Artists Gets a Museum Tribute
The school that has nurtured some of Hawaii’s most prominent artistic talents is coming to the fore at two companion shows at the Honolulu Museum of Art. The museum will be presenting “Home of the Tigers,” a tribute to McKinley High School in Honolulu, which boasts an alumni including artists Satoru Abe, Raymond Han, and […]
Divers Discover Carvings of Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs in the Nile
A joint team of Egyptian-French archaeologists has uncovered paintings, carvings, and miniatures of numerous ancient Egyptian pharaohs in the waters of the Nile south of Aswan. The diving expedition was conducted as part of ongoing efforts to identify and record archaeological sites of interest that were flooded during the building of the Aswan High Dam, […]
‘The Rainbow Is a Bridge:’ How Ugo Rondinone Imbues Outer Landscapes With Inner Worlds
Ugo Rondinone’s triumphant thirty-year retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Luzern is an ode to Switzerland’s majestic overlapping mountains and verdant terrain. “Cry Me a River” ranges from his early to most current work, reflecting themes that have been a consistent inspiration. The same reverence for nature that inspired his 1990s large-scale black and white landscape drawings […]
Eureka: The Deep Symbolism Behind Gerhard Richter’s Candles
At a glance, Gerhard Richter’s images of candles look like blurred photographs. In truth, they are meticulously crafted paintings that manage to recreate the effect of a camera shooting its subject slightly out of focus. Richter’s candles—one of which, titled Kerze, sold in 2011 for more than $13 million—hover between reality and illusion, objectivity and […]