Hyperallergic - Rodin was solitary before fame came to him, and afterward he became perhaps still more solitary. For fame is ultimately the summary of all misunderstandings that crystallize around a new name. -...
Artsy - The term “stained glass” may trigger thoughts of dark gothic churches and staid biblical imagery of the medieval era. But as these modern and contemporary artists prove, stained glass windows can provid...
BBC - The portraits of the Earl and Countess of Carbery at Carmarthenshire County Museum had been attributed to Sir Peter Lely and 'artist unknown' respectively. But experts found the countess was painted by Br...
Hyperallergic — In early October 1889, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch left the city of Kristiania (now Oslo) for Paris. At age 25, he was more than ready to leave behind a scolding, pietistic father and the p...
The New York Times - Arlene Gottfried, whose arresting images of ordinary people in New York’s humbler neighborhoods earned her belated recognition as one of the finest street photographers of her generation, ...
The Art Newspaper - In the latest iteration of her ongoing Immigrant Movement International (IMI) project, the Cuban political artist Tania Bruguera has partnered with activist groups, government officials and...
Hyperalergic - In the opening of Ko Nakajima’s film “Mt. Fuji” (1984), you feel like you’re inside a Mt. Fuji–themed Rubik’s cube. Images of Japan’s highest mountain in different seasons and at different times ...
The Huffington Post - The first exhibition featuring the work of exclusively black women artists took place in New York in 1971 ― it was titled “Where We At.”
Artists Vivian E. Browne, Dindga McCan...
Hyperallergic - History always plays an important role in photography, often giving images greater significance as the decades roll by. As Susan Sontag wrote in On Photography: “To take a photograph is to parti...