Art History

August 19, 2020

Smithsonian Magazine - I will never forget the startling moment when I pulled Frida Kahlo’s (1907–1954) tiny, tin-framed painting, Survivor, out of a dirty, unlabeled cardboard box stacked in a closet in an un...

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conic Covid-19 images designed to create “a feeling of alarm” says CDC medical illustrator Dan Higgins

May 15, 2020

de zeen - A medical illustrator behind the first 3D images of the coronavirus particle has spoken to Dezeen about how his team branded an invisible disease that "needed an identity". - read more ...

The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre

November 26, 2019

The Art Newspaper -The celebrations of artists of the past have rarely acquired a political dimension, as has been the case with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). One may recall that the legacy of this universal ...

A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

May 22, 2019

Artnet - An academic in the UK has unraveled the mysteries of a coded medieval manuscript that has confounded experts for more than a century. Professional codebreakers, linguistics specialists, and computer pr...

Van Gogh’s Correspondence

May 21, 2019

The Art Newspaper - A tantalising and largely overlooked postscript in a letter suggests that Vincent van Gogh knew the young Victor Horta, who would eventually become the celebrated Art Nouveau and Art Deco ar...

Attributed to Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
Poppies, c. 1886-87
Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (54.6 x 45.1 cm)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Bequest of Anne Parrish Titzell, 1957.617

Fake no more: poppy painting in US museum is by Van Gogh—and has a surprise under the surface

March 23, 2019

The Art Newspaper- A still life of poppies which has been hidden away in storage for 30 years at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut has been authenticated, we can announce. Specialist...

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: Oliver Barker, Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, fields bids for Jenny Saville’s 1992 painting 'Propped', the work that propelled her to international acclaim at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Sotheby's on October 5, 2018 in London, England. The painting sold tonight at Sotheby’s in London for £9.5m / $12.4 million / €10.8 million, setting a new auction record for a work by a living female artist. The painting was part of the collection of David Teiger, visionary collector and patron of the arts. Proceeds from this and from other works from his collection will benefit the Teiger Foundation, soon to be one of the world’s largest and most significant contemporary art foundations. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's) *** Local Caption *** Oliver Barker

Jenny Saville Becomes Most Expensive Living Female Artist at £67.3 Million Sotheby’s Sale

October 11, 2018

Artsy - After an extended, five-person battle at Sotheby’s London Friday, Jenny Saville became the world’s most expensive living female artist when her painting Propped (1992) sold at the house’s New Bond Stre...

Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary takes over Venice

September 8, 2018

The Art Newspaper - Among the celebrated painters of 16th-century Venice, Tintoretto was the most Venetian. Jacopo Robusti (around 1518-94), nicknamed “the little dyer” after his father’s cloth-dying trade, is ...

Art Berlin moves to historic Tempelhof airport—but will it take off?