#art-history

#art-history

When we were invited to contribute a few words to this book, we realized that this is a project that goes beyond an overview or a specific aspect of Basquiat's multifaceted art, executed in a few short years. Sixty-six years after his birth and 38 years after his premature death, his short but incredibly intense life had an impact on his generation and those that followed. Without his contribution we cannot imagine today's art world. The development of globalization and digitalization-along with a growing cultural focus on distinct identities and exceptional individuals-has helped spread his influence well beyond the art world.

Chase developed her own visual language in the 1970s informed by the generations of artists before her but creating something wholly new.

El ano del hambre de Madrid shows a group of emaciated, dying madrilenos nobly refusing the bread offered to them by French soldiers, demonstrating a perfect, if terminal, patriotism.

Cranston's pictures are rich in cultural resonance, reflecting personal events and memories while incorporating images and ideas from the history of art and cinema.

Gladys Hynes was a protean rebel slaloming through early 20th-century Britain's avant-garde circles, training as a landscape and figure painter and later designing for Omega Workshops.

Ibarra's performance shattered the historical designation of the nude woman as beautiful in art but vulgar in the flesh, challenging societal norms.

The glass negatives have tremendous documentary value—not only for the museum and the collection itself but also for the public. They provide a crucial visual record of significant artworks that were lost.

"I knew nothing about photography. I ended up making 40,000 goddamn slides."

Winnie Wong embarks on a fascinating endeavor to unpack the crisis of naming and agency as it arises in the creative worlds of artists in southern China who created works for foreign clientele.

"What was apparent was the values and gains that came from breaking down silos," says Britt Salvesen, the head of the museum's departments of photography and prints and drawings.

The most remarkable aspect of the Royal Academy's newly opened monographic exhibition on Michaelina Wautier is its rediscovery of a talent on a par with the likes of Van Dyck and Rubens.

"She taught me to see the face behind the mask and the fraud behind the flourishes," Jean reportedly wrote in his 1974 memoir. "She taught me to detest the cliché."

George Costakis spent three decades hunting down, and saving, thousands of Russian and Soviet avant-garde works of art-at a time when they were hidden, vilified by the state and at risk of disappearing into history.

These women artists were in museum collections, but they were barely shown. The challenge was to do enough research to find common themes and bring them together.

Curt Goldschmidt's fate is shared with many Jewish collectors and patrons. With this restitution, we honour Jewish collectors and remember victims of Nazi persecution.

The 2026 Whitney Biennial opened at the beginning of the month, providing a snapshot of current trends and curatorial interests in the art world.

I wanted to be a great artist, not in the slang use of 'great,' but fantastic—reaching the soul of other people. This ambition drove Pat Steir throughout her life.

Bronze, when shaped by the right hand, holds time in suspension—an argument against decay, against disappearance, against the quiet erasure of the human story.

"We look at Europe in a global context and we like to highlight the ways that European artists and collectors traveled and traded with the world. Part of that is representing the people who lived in Europe but came from abroad," Adam Harris Levine, associate curator of European art at the AGO, said over email.

Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist famously known for his color field technique created the painting titled 'Thru the Window.'

The oil on canvas presents an unusual and dynamic composition of a serene Madonna alongside her energetic child with a reverent Saint John pressed up close in the painting's foreground.