Painting
What’s the Deal about New Deal Art?
As the first of the New Deal acts that funded public art projects with federal money, the PWAP produced more than 15,000 works of art in just six months
May 19, 2009 |
By David A. Taylor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Portrait Unveiled
At the National Portrait Gallery, artist David Lenz pays tribute to a champion for the intellectually disabled
May 11, 2009 |
By Barbara Sanford
The Measure of Genius: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel at 500
Half a millennium later, the story of the painting of the Sistine Chapel is as fascinating as Michelangelo’s masterpiece itself
April 10, 2009 |
By Jamie Katz
Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt's Shadow
A new exhibition re-establishes Lievens' reputation as an old master, after centuries of being eclipsed by his friend and rival
March 2009 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Van Gogh's Night Visions
For Vincent Van Gogh, fantasy and reality merged after dark in some of his most enduring paintings, as a new exhibition reminds us
January 2009 |
By Paul Trachtman
Feeling Blue: Expressionist Art on Display in Munich
Visitors catch a glimpse of the groundbreaking, abstract art created by
preeminent 20th century expressionists.
November 01, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
Warhol's Pop Politics
Andy Warhol's political portraits anticipated today's blurred boundaries between public office and stardom
October 31, 2008 |
By Julia Ann Weekes
Botticelli Comes Ashore
With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner took American collecting in a new direction
August 12, 2008 |
By Cynthia Saltzman
China’s Artistic Diaspora
For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art
May 02, 2008 |
By Christina Larson
Painting the Edge
With an eye for despoiled landscapes, Lisa Sanditz captures the sublime
October 2007 |
By Arthur Lubow
Back to the Figure
Recognizable forms are showing up in the works of a new wave of contemporary painters
October 2007 |
By Paul Trachtman
The Real Frida Kahlo
A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter's private life
September 01, 2007 |
By Julia Kaganskiy
Pride of the Realm
An extraordinary collection of pictures has traveled from the United Kingdom's national portrait gallery to ours
August 2007 |
By Diane Bolz
Hopper
Mystery. Longing. A whole new way of seeing. A stunning retrospective reminds us why the enigmatic American artist retains his power
July 2007 |
By Avis Berman
Incurably Romantic
For much of the 20th century, Britain's Pre-Raphaelite were dismissed as overly sentimental. A new exhibition shows why they're back in favor
February 01, 2007 |
By Doug Stewart
Americans in Paris
In the late 19th century, the City of Light beckoned Whistler, Sargent, Cassatt and other young artists. As a new exhibition makes clear, what they experienced would transform American art
January 2007 |
By Arthur Lubow
Impressionism's American Childe
A new exhibition of works by Childe Hassam, a pioneering interpreter of the French style, highlights his "incorrigibly joyous" break with the past
August 2004 |
By Doug Stewart
The Elusive Marc Chagall
With his wild and whimsical imagery, the Russian-born artist bucked the trends of 20th-century art
December 2003 |
By Joseph A. Harriss
Frida Kahlo
The Mexican artist's myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film
November 2002 |
By Phyllis Tuchman
Still Delightful
A sumptuous show documents how the Impressionists breathed new life into the staid tradition of still life painting
March 2002 |
By Smithsonian magazine
