In 2005, Ikea conducted an experiment on its customers in the pages of its annual catalogue. Near the end of the dining room and chairs section, on page 204, the company placed a rendering of the Alfons, a boxy and inexpensive pine chair, among photographs of other seating options. The marketing department wanted to see if anyone could tell the difference between pictures of ...
It seems fitting that the Phillips Collection’s centennial celebration would include a major exhibition of works by painter Jacob Lawrence, whose career was deeply entangled with the Washington, D.C., institution. Collector Duncan Phillips, who founded the museum with his mother, was one of the artist’s early champions who solidified his support by purchasing all odd-numbered panels of Lawrence’s sixty-part epic “The Migration Series” (1940–41) ...
Arts and entertainment | Expert quotes | UW News blog March 29, 2021 Jacob Lawrence in his studio in 1979. UW Special Collections Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He also taught at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1986. For the first time, a UW course is looking at his legacy on the art ...
Just months after experts discovered a work from a Jacob Lawrence series that currently forms the basis of a traveling survey, curators have authenticated another painting from that body of work that was long thought to be missing. Panel 28 of Lawrence’s 30-work painting series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” has been located in the holdings of a resident in New ...
The late Jacob Lawrence was recently called “one of the most celebrated painters of the 20th century” by Art News. Lawrence, who died in 2000 at the age of 83, was famed for his colorful, figurative paintings that depicted the experiences of African Americans, daily life in Harlem and events from U.S. history. He has received renewed attention recently due to a major touring ...
A painting hanging in a local government building in Brussels has been revealed to be a long-lost masterpiece painted by Flemish master Jacob Jordaens.Since the 1960s, a version of Jordaens’s Holy Family presumed to be a copy has appeared at Saint-Gilles district hall’s town planning and development office in the Belgian capital.However, following research from the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, the painting was ...
Even in the best of times, organizing an international biennial—wrangling dozens of far-flung artists and hundreds of works, all while keeping to a budget—is not an easy business. Organizing an international biennial amid a once-in-a-century global health crisis is another matter entirely. But at a time when most such shows have been delayed, the curator Jacob Fabricius managed to pull one off in high style. ...
It is the only one of Lawrence’s 10 series not preserved intact in public collections, which is partly why “Struggle” has been little known until now. In the late 1950s, the artist’s dealer, Charles Alan, showed “Struggle” twice at his gallery and approached multiple museums about acquisition — with no takers. It was the era of the McCarthy hearings, and Ms. Bailly, the curator, ...
