News
Oh My Goya! New Research Hub for the Artist to Launch in NYC
The Hispanic Society’s forthcoming center will promote scholarship on the Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker.
Francisco de Goya
Art
Goya and Dix Just Needed a Rainbow
The problem with a show in Venice on war is the insistence that there had to be a bit of hope too — and the hopeful element of this show is feeble, if not schmalzy.
Art
Goya's Coded Love Letter to the Duchess of Alba
Goya neatly clothes himself in his own world of fantasy: He will have her in the end. In life, where the climate is much chillier, it was, alas, to be otherwise.
Art
Marveling at Goya's Haunting Portraits
LONDON — When was the last time you saw a survey of one artist that could dispel completely the need for filler?
Art
Some Doritos with Your Goya? Old Master Still Lifes Get an Update
With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them?
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Forever 21 rips off an artist's work for a T-shirt design, a museumgoer snaps off part of a Dale Chihuly sculpture, and two Goyas go missing.
Art
A Chapman Brother on Making Us Laugh at Human Atrocity
OSLO, Norway — What might for some artists constitute a proud moment, appears to be something of a jape for the Chapman brothers.
Art
Lighter than Air: Desire Across Millennia
NAPLES — In the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, there's a tiny Roman fresco, about a foot square, of a semi-nude woman and man floating against an azure sky, one of many such fragments you'll find there.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Brothers trying to offload fake Goya get conned, gallery manager siphons off $450,000 from Botero sale, and French thieves make off with the King of Siam's crown.
In Brief
Spain's Art-for-Taxes Program Only Works When the Art's Good
If taxes sound taxing to you, consider this alternative: move to Spain, purchase valuable and culturally significant artworks, and donate them to the Spanish government in lieu of tax. Just make sure they're really significant artworks.
Art
Before the Selfie, the Self-Portrait
The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror.