Aug 19, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
In the early 1820s, English King George IV commissioned the architect John Nash to make some renovations to Buckingham Palace – most notably, to build the picture gallery, a home for George’s collection of fine paintings. Now, two centuries later, the gallery is...
Jul 29, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Before Lucy Liu hit television big time in 1997 on Ally McBeal, and big screen fame in Charlie’s Angels in 2000, she was showing her art in major galleries in New York and Los Angeles. She’s worked in collage, photography, mixed-media works, and sculpture...
Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
While Art Basel, the international fine arts fair founded in 1970 by Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt has three major events a year, spaced around the globe, it is its eponymous event, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, that is the gem of the set. At Basel...
Apr 1, 2020 | Art, Donations, Exhibitions
The first object in Robert and Betsy Feinberg’s collection of Japanese art was not a fine silk painting or a hand-carved wood fan; it was a $2 poster print of a screen painting of an early Portuguese ship arriving in Japan in the 16th century. They found it in a...
Mar 30, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms are art meant to transport the viewer. Into outer space or the solace of one’s own mind, that’s up to the individual, but one cannot stand in the middle of any of his creations and not feel themselves to be somewhere...
Mar 9, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Miniature art is transportive in a way in which perhaps nothing else is. It draws the viewer closer, makes us lean in, tilt from side to side as we try to peer into tiny spaces, trying in some manner to fit ourselves inside. “The magic is in the invitation extended to...
