#art-history

#art-history

If the last two years represented a slow return and then full-on bounce back to prepandemic arts programming, the array of art fairs this May embodies something of a spring frenzy.Here's a guide to our favorites, by neighborhood.Each year the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), known for its expertise in art history, antiques and design, leaves the Netherlands for Manhattan.

AI is already rewriting art history.When you Googled the famed realist artist Edward Hopper this week, the first featured image that appeared was convincing enough.A lone woman, painted in the artist's signature soft, muted style, stared out a window, sporting a red dress and hair tucked into a bun.

If you studied art history or another of the humanities in the 1990s or 2000s say, if you are around the age of the Australian comic Hannah Gadsby, 45 you may remember the word problematic from your long-ago seminar days.Back then it was a voguish noun, borrowed from French, that described the unconscious structure of an ideology or a text.

Image Iiu Susiraja's Woman (2010), one of the powerful works that take aim at contemporary body image issues, obsessions and taboos in a show at MoMA PS1.Credit...via Iiu Susiraja, Makasiini Contemporary, and Nino Mier Gallery The strange, discomfiting photographs and videos of the Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja push so many buttons that her provocative exhibition at MoMA PS1 should have been staged in an elevator to paraphrase the theater critic Peter Marks.

The Venus of Willendorf is a significant figure in art history since it is thought to have been created between 30,000 and 25,000 BCE, making it one of the world's oldest known works of art to have been discovered.Furniture design is an art that seamlessly merges aesthetics with functionality.The Venus Folding Chair, with its gorgeous design and usefulness, is an excellent example of this idea.

There are a few better examples of the tendency to see female artists' work through an overly biographical lens than the case of Gwen John.Her best-known paintings quiet interiors often featuring solitary women as subjects have fostered a myth of the reclusive artist for whom external location was irrelevant.

Florence Mayor Dario Naardella has invited parents, students and a teacher fired from the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida to come to Italy and judge firsthand whether Michelangelo Buonarroti's 1504 sculpture of the Old Testament hero David is in fact pornography.The invitation was extended after the school's principal, Hope Carrasquilla, was forced to resign when parents vociferously complained about images of the five-meter (17 foot) tall marble sculpture being shown to sixth graders as part of a Renaissance art history course.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said that his state recently rejected an advanced placement (AP) African American Studies course because of the course's "indoctrination" of the "queer" agenda."We have guidelines and standards in Florida: We want education, not indoctrination," DeSantis said during a news conference.

I New York.Dylan.The New York Magazine logo.As one of the most well-known graphic designers of the past century, Milton Glaser and his work have long been ubiquitous in culture.If you assumed you'd seen it all, you'd be in good company.I thought I had laid eyes on most everything Milton designed, says Beth Kleber, the founding archivist of the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

At Coveteur, we believe that personal style is reflected in every facet of our lives.While we're all arguably guilty of investing more into our wardrobes than our walls, our surroundings are what continually inspire us.So this year we'll be leaning into our creativity across every space we touch.While it might seem daunting at first, with a bit of research, we can see that artistic admiration does not need to cost a fortune.

There's more to this painting than meets the eye.Nivaagaards Malerisamling After years of research and detective work, a family has been reunited.However, this isn't your typical tale.The backstory In 1626, a father and son sat for a portrait.The father rests in an armchair sporting a fancy mustache and a goatee along with a large millstone collar around his neck a ruffled accessory piece many wore in the early 17th century.

A fter years of being based mostly in Trinidad, the artist Peter Doig is back in London.And just as his move from here to the Caribbean prompted a marvellous shift in his paintings more than 20 years ago, adding looseness and luminosity, so his return seems to promise a newly fecund era.Canal, one of 12 paintings in this Courtauld show, was completed this year (perhaps I am kidding myself that I could smell the paint), and is a view of the Regent's Canal.

Ian Falconer, best known as the illustrator and author of the beloved Olivia children's book series about a spry and smart young pig, died on Tuesday in Rowayton, Conn.The author, illustrator, theatrical set and costume designer was 63 years old.Initially created as a Christmas gift in 1996 for Falconer's then 3-year-old niece Olivia, the first Olivia book was published in 2000.

Hamline University officials made an about-face on Tuesday in its treatment of a lecturer who showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class, walking back one of their most controversial statements that showing the image was Islamophobic.They also said that respect for Muslim students should not have superseded academic freedom.

It seems like LarrenWong can do a little bit of everything.He's a former linebacker who played football at James Logan High School and Northwestern University, before signing a professional contract with the Seattle Seahawks.He's an avid reader, student of art history and a talented painter.He's a rising R&B star who sings, writes and plays the guitar; earlier this year he dropped a quality album titled, Songs That I Hate To Sing.

To center myself this morning, I wrote a list of things I love and things I hate, the actor Zoe Chao said on a drizzly afternoon last month at the sumptuous Russian Tea Room, in Manhattan.As she talked, she plucked a miniature blini from a silver tower in the middle of our table.I don't have a strong attachment to self, she continued, examining the glistening beads of black caviar on her tiny pancake.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails From Major Tom to Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, the many faces and inspirations of David Bowie are getting a permanent home in London.Britain's Victoria & Albert Museum announced Thursday that it has acquired Bowie's archive of more than 80,000 items as a gift from the late musician's estate.

I n a crowded field, the story often told of post-war abstract painting is arguably the most crudely reductive in art history.The contemporary American painter Amy Sillman expressed it best when she described it in Artforum magazine as bad politics steel-welded around a chassis of machismo, where the paint stroke is equivalent to a phallic spurt, to [Jackson] Pollock whipping out his dick and pissing in [art dealer] Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace.

One of the last finished paintings of Glasgow's street children by the artist Joan Eardley has sold for a record amount.The Yellow Jumper, which features a glorious depiction of children in the now largely demolished neighbourhood of old Townhead in Glasgow, had been put up for auction with an estimate of 100,000 to 150,000.

The Story Of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel has been named the Waterstones Book Of The Year 2022.The non-fiction book, described as a feast for the eyes, overturns the reader's sense of art history and challenges the narrative.Hessel is an art historian, presenter and curator dedicated to celebrating female artists and has founded The Great Women Artists and a podcast of the same name.

An impressive piece of historical fiction, hit graphic novel Heartstopper and the true story of an Auschwitz escapee are among the 10 books vying for the title of Waterstones Book of the Year 2022.The accolade, which was first presented in 2012, is awarded annually to a book published in the previous 12 months and is voted for by a panel of Waterstones booksellers.

Written by By Katie Hunt, CNN Over the past century, thousands of pieces of slate engraved with images of owls have been unearthed from tombs and pits across the Iberian Peninsula, in what's now Portugal and Spain.The artifacts date from around 5,000 years ago, and for more than a century their function has flummoxed archaeologists.

American sculptor Deborah Butterfield's newest exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in New York invites viewers to walk circles around sculptures that hold the most honest aura of horses I've ever seen, and yet delightfully deceive in their material.Though each work appears to be assembled from various types of wood, they are in fact all bronze.

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition  - or BWAC - last weekend celebrated the opening of its new fall exhibitions - including its first-ever Latinx gallery exhibition.The new exhibits - "Dia De Los Muertos" "Somos LatniX" and "Background Story" feature collages, landscapes, sculptures, and more.

Vince Dooley, a Hall of Fame football coach at the University of Georgia who in 25 years won more games than any other coach did in the school's history, died on Friday at his home in Athens, Ga.He was 90.His death was announced by the university.No cause was given, but Dooley had recently been hospitalized.

Dezeen Courses: Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) has presented a range of undergraduate and postgraduate art, design and history programmes on Dezeen Courses.Established in 1998, the Qatari branch of Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts provides students with Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees across a range of art and design disciplines.

The festival is a celebration of urban art, featuring work by 44 street artists and a further 27 creatives including French and international DJs, screen printers and tattoo artists The work, right, of Pimax  a key artist on the Parisian street art scene  is characterised by references to the works and iconic characters of art and pop culture or advertising icons and logos.

Estrada is part of the surrealist art collective Mail Order Brides.His students included Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley and Mission School art pioneer Barry McGee."I came into visual arts through graffiti art and have kind of carried that pride because of Carlos to this project," Arcega said.He said his mentor worked to increase the visibility of artists of color in the white-dominated art world by organizing a slew of landmark conferences starting in the 1970s.Arcega said this use of art as literally a vehicle for increasing Filipino visibility was inspired by Villa, who thought street life should be an inspiration for art.