Art
The Suggestive Compositions of a Mediocre Caravaggist
The Metropolitan Museum's Valentin de Boulogne show clarifies why this French follower of Caravaggio remains lesser-known, despite the leering details in many of his paintings.
Caravaggio
News
Lost Caravaggio May Have Been Discovered in French Attic
A painting that a French family found in their attic while investigating a leaky roof may be a long-lost Caravaggio.
Art
From Michelangelo to Marden, Seven Fierce Fistfights from Art History
WASHINGTON, DC — In her ongoing series Le ‘NEW’ Monocle, Shana Lutker creates stage sets and performances based on the circumstances and philosophical undertones of fistfights instigated by Surrealists in Paris in the 1920s.
In Brief
Which Artist Will Grace the UK's New £20 Bill?
The Bank of England has announced that a visual artist will grace the new £20 bill.
Art
Lost in the Darkness of Baroque Paintings
PARIS — In these paintings, you’ll find wine and drunken excess, along with all the accompanying decadent behavior: insult, turbulence, transgression, sacrilege, and provocation.
Art
Rediscovering the Music of the Age of Caravaggio
The aural history of the 16th to 17th century resonates through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Painting Music in the Age of Caravaggio.
Art
All Art Is Contemporary, Part 1: Rome
ROME, Italy — Going to Rome means going to Caravaggio's St. Matthew cycle in the Contarelli Chapel of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, near the Piazza Navona. And going to the St. Matthew cycle means being captivated by "The Martyrdom of St. Matthew" (1599–1600), one of the most enthralling wor
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, how a Caravaggio becomes "discovered" and evaluated, Christo gets the green light for Colorado, artists who seek out their harshest critics, Terence Conran, erasing a Chris Martin, escaping the digital world, Occupy Miami art schools, street art in Iran and is politics performance art?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's edition of Required Reading comes a little later than usual, but aren't all good things worth the wait? We'll be back to our morning publishing schedule next Sunday. Enjoy the linkage.
Art
Natural Apparition: Gaia’s “St. John” (2010)
There is nothing more universal than nature, but the meaning of what constitutes the term may lead to disagreement. That perceptual ambiguity attracts Gaia, who navigates the boundary between nature and artifice carefully and with apparent ease. His latest artistic mash-up in Baltimore's Reservoir H