The Baltic, a region typically seen as encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, has always boasted a dynamic art scene in Europe. One of its foremost contemporary art exhibitions, the Baltic Triennial, taps into that landscape of talent every three years—its 14th edition just opened this June in Vilnius, Lithuania. Since 1979, the Baltic Triennial has brought together these nations’ diverse yet overlapping art scenes, which ...
If you’re shooting with 35mm film in this digital age, you likely have a specific artistic application for the medium. To match your vision, it’s important to pick the right kind of film. Shopping for color negative film can be more challenging than for black-and-white film, even though there aren’t that many competitors on the market. Each brand manufactures its own emulsion formula that ...
The late Texas philanthropist Anne Marion, who accrued her $1.1 billion net worth by expanding her family’s oil and ranching empire, amassed an era-defining collection of American postwar art, and it will soon head to auction. “She had a great eye and she had no hesitation when she saw something that she liked,” Marla Price, the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art director of ...
Dragons, sexy maidens, and epic sword fights are getting the fine-art treatment in Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, Taschen’s new 532-page illustrated tome celebrating the genre. Lest you think fantasy art is nothing more than a lightweight endeavor, the massive volume weighs a hefty 16 pounds. Tracing the evolution of the genre from 1400 to the present, it showcases the works of Old Masters Jan Van ...
Written by Sarah Urist GreenThe following artcile is an edited excerpt from the book "You are an artist," by curator Sarah Urist Green and published by Penguin Books. Gina Beavers's art changed dramatically in 2010. She had been making hard-edged abstract paintings and was unenthused about them, especially after admiring several racks of T-shirts in a store with screen-printed abstractions on them. Beavers liked ...
After months spent sheltering in place, the art world was out in full force on Saturday, gathering in sites across New York and cities across the country for the Wide Awakes march. The activist event, which was at once a cry for justice, a joyful celebration, and a push to get out the vote, also marked an important, little-known moment in US history. On ...
Best known for his abstract art, Philip Guston also dipped into figurative painting with a repeating motif of white-hooded Ku Klux Klan members. Now these images have caused the postponement of a major retrospective to honour him – and a heated row within the art world.Four institutions – the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of ...