Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art’s first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and …
Read More >Out today, Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis is the first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his …
Read More >A look into the work and career of artist Lorraine O’Grady is also a chronicle of the art world’s exclusionary politics. As Cassidy George writes in an article for Vogue: “O’Grady—both then …
Read More >By Shana Klein, author of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion Still-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight. Pictures …
Read More >Chiura Obata was one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century. Chiura Obata: An American Modern, is a major retrospective of his work with an extensive traveling schedule. Appropriately, …
Read More >If you haven’t made it to the Oakland Museum yet this summer, we highly recommend you time your visit before the special long overdue Roy De Forest retrospective closes on August 20th. (Pro …
Read More >Congratulations to Jennifer L. Roberts on winning the Smithsonian American Art Museum‘s 29th Annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship for her book, Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America. The …
Read More >This story, written by Erica Ciccarone, first appeared on the Chapter 16 website on April 25, 2016 and is cross-posted here with their kind permission. Rhodes College professor David McCarthy writes a history …
Read More >Visionary artist Howard Finster, the “Southern Andy Warhol,” was born 100 years ago this year. A modern-day Noah who saw his art as a religious crusade to save the world before it …
Read More >By Norman Girardot, author of Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World Norman Girardot, fresh from attending the “America is Hard to See” exhibit at the (New) …
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