It took Horace Pippin 43 years to complete his first oil painting. Why so long? Because poverty, hard physical work, war, and disabilities got in his way.
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi,’ a masterpiece that has captivated the art world for centuries, took a remarkable journey from obscurity to the limelight in the mid-2000s.
Vincent van Gogh, the enigmatic Dutch post-impressionist painter, is revered for his emotive works that capture the essence of human experience and the beauty found in the ordinary.
Reza Abbasi (Riza yi-Abbasi or Reza-e Abbasi) was born in 1565 and was an important miniaturist, calligrapher, and painter. His work is categorized by the period known as Safavid, a time when the Shiite dynasty of the same name dominated Persia (between 1501 and 1736).
But what if the parquet is so worn out that it can no longer be sanded? What if it has swelled due to bad foundations, inexpensive construction, and moisture?
On 11 September 1973, military jets bombed the presidential palace in Chile’s capital of Santiago. The attack was part of a coup, headed by army chief Augusto Pinochet.
The seven recipients of the Loewe Foundation / Studio Voltaire Award’s third edition are the painter and drag performer Lulu Bennett; installation artist Chaney Diao; photographer Jesse Glazzard; visual and sound artist, writer and listener Taey Iohe; michael.
The opportunity for Ukrainian Nikita Kadan to show at Kyiv’s National Art Museum is one of the more obscure consequences of the 2022 fullscale invasion of his country.
The first works of art in Britta’s long-standing artistic work were Expressionist and Impressionist in character, inspired by her role models Monet, Macke, Münter, Kandinsky, and the entire Blue Rider group.
New scholarship suggests that a pivotal Pablo Picasso painting—one that helped spur on modernism more broadly—may have been inspired by Medieval church frescoes in the Spanish Pyrenees rather than African art, as many art historians have previously suggested.
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Hidden Battles / Hondo dzakavanzika, Portia Zvavahera’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.