Art
Chris Martin Finds a Muse in Amy Winehouse
LOS ANGELES — Paintings about painting are really about life, proposals for how it might be lived.
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Art
The Praise and Prejudices Vigée Le Brun Faced in Her Exceptional 18th-Century Career
The daughter of a pastelist and a hairdresser, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) painted and befriended Marie Antoinette, escaped the horrors of the French Revolution, and forged a career as one of the 18th-century’s greatest portraitists.
Comics
Don't Let the Grumps Get You Down
A grump's guffaw is an honor!
Art
Architecture's Impenetrable Imagery and Rarely Seen Machinery
BERLIN — The interplay of flatness and dimensionality in Franka Hörnschemeyer’s site-specific installations yields images seemingly more penetrable than the adjacent structures.
Art
How Andrew Wyeth's Cast Bronze Hands Inspired a Morbid Self-Portrait
Andrew Wyeth was not fond of self-portraits, and they rarely appear in his long career in 20th-century realism.
In Brief
Giorgio de Chirico's Eerie Cityscapes, Scored and Animated
Tune out from your surroundings courtesy of a strange but poetic video that stitches together 10 paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and introduces subtle animated details to each one.
News
Settlement Draws Near in Vivian Maier Copyright Fight
Part of the legal saga surrounding the estate of Vivian Maier is drawing to a close a year and a half after it began.
Opinion
Why We Need the Getty's Multicultural Internship Program
There's a saying: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
Art
Paintings that Set Letters and Language Free
The poet James Schuyler once described the tidal influence that the New York art world had on the poetry he and his friends were writing as "floods of paint in whose crashing surf we all scramble."
Announcement
Sierra Nevada College's MFA-IA Program Hosts Steve Lambert’s ‘Co-op Bar’ This Summer
Sierra Nevada College’s Low-Residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program proudly presents artist Steve Lambert as he creates a new installation for SNC’s Garage Door Gallery during the upcoming MFA-IA Summer Residency 2016 at Lake Tahoe.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTMzNDMyLCJhdCI6MjAsI
In Brief
In France and Japan, Trains Now Bring the Art to You
Japan's major passenger railway company JR East has just launched what officials call "the world's fastest art experience" with a traveling art gallery aboard one of its bullet trains, or shinkansen.
Art
The Flattering Tricks of 19th-Century Portraiture
For the wealthy 19th-century elite, a portrait rendered by a respected artist was a signifier of status — an oversized and ostentatious calling card.