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Organized by Kenneth Brummel, associate curator, Modern Art, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Susan Behrends Frank, curator at the Phillips, the show is a deep dive into the heady years ...
At the Art Gallery of Ontario, Matthew Wong comes back into focus. Sensitive. Revealing. The heart and soul he poured into his work plain to see–no pre-sale estimates attached to them–the art ...
Using hyper-modern tools to peer into one of his Blue Period paintings, researchers have not only shown a hidden piece of art history in stunning new detail, they have revealed a striking amount ...
But in the new installation on the third floor of the BCAM building, a small painted sculpture dated 1915 to 1917 stands on a pedestal between famous, powerhouse paintings by Henri Matisse (“Tea ...
This quest for the perfect blue has also transformed artistic traditions, from modern painting and jewelry to Turkish tilework, Persian glassware and Ming dynasty pottery.
My guess is that the [blue painting] is not by chance. ... She sold “Still Pi” on May 3, 1989 at a Sotheby’s sale (in the New York Contemporary Art, Part II, ...
More recently, the L.A. artist Alex Israel evoked it in his 2014 self-portrait in a blue satin Dodgers jacket. The contemporary portraitist Kehinde Wiley, who took art classes at The Huntington as ...
(A commonly cited milestone for the “birth” of modern art is the exhibition of Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” at the Salon des Refusés in 1863.) MoMA acquired it in 2000.