Roni Horn’s work consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as wel ...
Read ArticleStarting in the late Renaissance, the Dutch republic prospered greatly off of their international maritime trade. The International Maritime Organization emphasizes World Maritime Day every year on th ...
Read ArticleWhen the subject of Op Art (optical art) comes up, usually artist names such as Victor Vasarely or Bridget Riley usually spring to mind. Julio Le Parc was a pioneer of motion and light artworks starti ...
Read ArticleAlma Woodsey Thomas was a pioneering African American abstract painter and art educator. Any art historian who is a nut about color as I am certainly knows her work! ...
Read ArticleHispanic American Heritage Month is 15 September to 15 October, 2026. I will say unequivocally, that there have been few if any periods in American art history that American people of Hispanic heritag ...
Read ArticleA large part of the early body of art work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold put the “real” in Photorealism. For awhile now, she has been producing lyrical studies of landscape and nature around h ...
Read ArticleBesides being conversant in a number of modernism movements in the first half of the 1900s, Gabor Peterdi was very influential in exploring printmaking processes in modernist takes on landscape. &n ...
Read ArticleJean Arp was truly an artist who was in the right place at the right time when it came to helping discover the Dada art movement during World War I (1914-1918). His truly imaginative and unique works ...
Read ArticleIn old timey days when secular rulers had absolute power over their subjects, it was not at all unusual for kings and queens to commission monstrous, oversized palaces (think Louis XIV and Versailles) ...
Read ArticleDid you ever go “Wow!” when you see a certain work of art (something I do probably on a daily basis)? Well, that’s what I did when I saw the stunning jewelry by Tone Vigeland. She ha ...
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