This episode of the ArtCurious podcast explores the history behind Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a work that shocked the world.
January 2019 Art News
Christie’s announces Property from the Collection of Richard L. Feigen, the renowned and influential American art dealer. Featuring early Italian and Baroque paintings, as well as 18thcentury British landscapes, several paintings from the Collection will be offered in the Old Masters sale in New York on May 2, 2019.
In 1958, scientists from Russia left a plastic bust of Vladimir Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, and as of 2007 it was still there. What does it mean? Guest host John Green ponders his fascination with this object and the changing nature of art.
Showcasing important new acquisitions and masterworks from the permanent collection, the newly renovated North European galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art aim to envelop visitors in a new viewing experience.
New York, NY – Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art announces For Camera, a video exhibition of three works by Merce Cunningham. The exhibition will screen January 3 through February 27, 2019, as a part of High Line Channel—an ongoing series of video projections in the semi-enclosed passageway on the High Line at 14th St. For Camera is part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial, a celebration of Cunningham’s legacy, hosted at arts and educational institutions around the world.
As the Federal Government shutdown due to lack of funding continues, the Smithsonian Institution has been forced to close the doors of their 19 national museums and the zoo. With nonessential employees on furlough due to a lack of funds to pay their salaries, the institutions cannot operate without the government employees that staff them.
For Artists on Art, Paul Mpagi Sepuya discusses "1957-2009 Interior #3" (2009) by Lorna Simpson.
The Armory Show’s 2019 edition will present 194 galleries from 33 countries, bringing together an unparalleled presentation of international galleries in central Manhattan. Staged at Piers 92 & 94, the upcoming fair will feature a diverse breadth of compelling artworks—from new discoveries to historical masterpieces.
Their styles vary widely, from Rococo to Modernism, but the thing that all the artists have in common in a new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is that they’re all female, struggling against the constraints of a society that hindered them in the pursuit of their chosen career.
Robert Rauschenberg was in the middle of creating this portrait of John F. Kennedy when the president was assassinated. Hear Steven Zucker and Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art discuss how this changed what would become Rauschenberg's Retroactive I (1963).
