In 1974, when most American Art Nouveau dealers held just a few Art Deco pieces in their inventories, Gerardus A. Widdershoven (1951 - 2020) took a gamble and opened a gallery on East 10th Street, Manhattan with a passion to introduce fine French Art Deco pieces to the United States.
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An original Henri Matisse (1869-1954) etching, “La Cite-Notre Dame”, at $2,500 is one of the higher priced works recently added to the extensive inventory available for sale online at Affordable Art 101.
The Dutch MPV Gallery, located in the southern town of Oisterwijk, was the target of a semi-botched heist last Friday, November 1st, when CCTV caught thieves storming in at around three in the morning.Using explosives to bypass the gallery's front entrance, which resulted in the door handle being thrown about 160 feet, the perpetrators hastily left with four silkscreens from Andy Warhol’s 1985 series “Reigning Queens.”
There has always been great discourse over the worth and impact that the arts have had on the American public education system. Under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the arts are recognized as a core academic subject. Despite this, it has taken a lot of work to pave this path and it still isn’t all that well implemented.
When it comes to a survey on Ecofeminism, there may be no better time than now. The future has never been a promised destination, but between the reality of it still being 80 degrees some days in Los Angeles, and the upcoming U.S. election, The Brick’s inaugural show, Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism arrives to a conscious audience.
With new VIP preview hours and over 160 international galleries, Art Miami 2024 further cements its status as a premier destination in the global contemporary and modern art market.
Just four hours from New York City, and serving as the main art institution for schools like Williams College and Bennington, The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts has just received an enormous posthumous donation from the Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O. Tavitian.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is an art residency and studio program on 39th Street in Manhattan, just two blocks shy of the Port Authority bus station and New York Times headquarters. In their unassuming building, artists were invited to open their studios to the public, celebrating 25 years of Open Studios and sharing their inner worlds with anyone who happens to be curious.
At the Louvre Museum in Paris, amongst the various works of art, is a painting with a tragic, yet captivating, story behind it. The Raft of Medusa was painted in 1819 by Théodore Géricault, an ambitious artist eager to achieve fame and glory.
Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art reimagines 400 artworks from the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition tackles political, aesthetic, and narrative challenges surrounding artworks spanning over 2,000 years. Many of the works on view have never been seen before, while others are still promised to the museum and currently on loan.
