Exploring Photography’s Bag of Tricks
Photographers created a visual revolution in the 19th century by describing the world accurately, almost scientifically. They forced other artists... Read more →
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Tattoos Get Respect in San Francisco Shows
It's summer in San Francisco, time to head to the park, demonstrate your hipness, and show off your tattoos. The de Young Museum's big new exhibition... Read more →
Every Warhol You’d Ever Want to See
What is there left to say about Andy Warhol? He was one of a handful of 20th-century artists who truly became household names, like Picasso. He was a... Read more →
The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp
Becky Sharp, the anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's sprawling 19th-century novel Vanity Fair, is a handful. Ambitious but poor, charming... Read more →
How Rubens Added Italian Passion to Flemish Restraint
In Peter Paul Rubens's spectacular Daniel in the Lions' Den, a buff Daniel, with long brown hair flowing over the shoulders and dressed only in a... Read more →
Tracing Monet’s Garden as It Evolves Into Pure Color
In 1914, Claude Monet could have put away his paint brushes for good. He was financially secure, and his reputation as a star of French Impressionism... Read more →
Tales of Fickle Gods, Flawed Mortals
in Metamorphoses
Before the Brothers Grimm, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote a 15-book epic of mythological tales called... Read more →
Vija Celmins Show Stars Pop Paintings, Zen Drawings
The American art scene in the '60s and '70s was almost totally a boys club, and one of the few women who broke through to full membership was Vija... Read more →
Brassai, Poet of Paris Streets, Shines in Photo Show
Brassai was more than a talented documentary photographer. He was a visual poet of the streets of Paris in the 1930s, focusing on the ordinary... Read more →
How Gauguin’s Danish Ties Led to Iconic Tahitian Works
Paul Gauguin is probably best known for his tempestuous friendship with Vincent Van Gogh in the south of France and his late work in Tahiti. Yet an... Read more →
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