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John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
VenuesThe Princeton University Art Museum March 17 through June 10, 2012Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville, TN June 22–September 30, 2012 This compelling, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of 85...
View ArticleThomas Sully: Painted Performance
VenuesMilwaukee Art Museum - October 11, 2013–January 5, 2014San Antonio Museum of Art - February 8, 2014–May 11, 2014 Thomas Sully (1783–1872) was one of nineteenth-century America’s most prolific...
View ArticleThe Voyage of Life - Thomas Cole
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art in Utica, New York is sending a collection of Thomas Cole paintings on an 18-month tour to four major art museums. “The Voyage of Life,” a...
View ArticleGenius and Grace: Francois Boucher and the Generation of 1700
This spring, the verve, grace, and exuberance of 18th-century French drawings will be on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The Art Museum will show drawings by the talented group of artists...
View ArticleLasting Impressions of the Grand Tour: Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome
In the 18th century, the Grand Tour of Europe was an educational and social rite of passage for wealthy young men, particularly from England and Germany. The journey, which could last a year or more,...
View ArticleManet: Portraying Life
Venues:Toledo Museum of Art through Jan 1, 2013Royal Academy of Arts Jan. 26–April 14, 2013 A contemporary of the Impressionists, Manet (1832–1883) painted his family, friends and the literary,...
View ArticleMetropolis: labor issues, class division, industrialization, mechanization,...
University of Arizona Museum of ArtMay 27, 2010 – October 31, 2010Fritz Lang’s 1927 film, Metropolis, is justifiably famous for its iconic imagery and advancements in film technique. Although the plot...
View ArticleRoom for Art, in 17th Century Antwerp
VenuesMauritshuis, The Hague from 25 March until 27 June 2010Rubens House, Antwerp from 28 November 2008 until 28 February 2010.This exhibition focused on a unique genre of painting: cabinet pictures...
View ArticlePicturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture
The portrait collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce, assembled over a two-hundred-year period beginning in 1772, captured with aesthetic and symbolic power the giants of American business to...
View ArticleAmerican Moderns, 1910–1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
American Moderns, 1910–1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell presents fifty-seven artworks from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in an exploration of the myriad ways in which American artists engaged...
View ArticleDelacroix and the Matter of Finish
VenuesSanta Barbara Museum of Art October 27,2013 through January 26, 2014Birmingham Museum of Art February 22, 2014 through May 18, 2014Delacroix and the Matter of Finish, organized by Eik Kahng,...
View ArticleMax Beckmann' s Blind Man's Buff
Minneapolis Institute of ArtsNovember 19, 2013-March 1, 2014Max Beckmann (German, 1884 – 1950), Blind Man's Buff, 1945, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston, 55.27a-c. ©Artists Rights...
View ArticleA Country House in New York: Highlights from The Frick Collection
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague5 February through 10 May 2015Over 30 masterpieces from the celebrated Frick Collection were seen outside New York for the first time as part of a special...
View ArticleAlong His Own Lines A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher
Samuel Dorsky Museum of ArtState University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY February 5 – July 13, 2014Eugene Speicher, Girl in a Coral Necklace, c. 1935, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in., Private...
View ArticleThéodore Géricault - Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
VenuesSchirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt October 18, 2013, to January 26, 2014 (Click link for many more images and more info.)Museum of Fine Arts Ghent 21 February to 26 May 2014Théodore Géricault, The Raft...
View ArticleDegas, Renoir, and Poetic Pastels
Degas, Renoir, and Poetic Pastels at the Cincinnati Art Museum, October 26, 2013—January 19, 2014, gave viewers the opportunity to contemplate a special conversation with Renoir’s thoughtful and...
View ArticleFace to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904
VenuesING Cultural Centre, Brussels, February 19, 2014, to May 18, 2014, under the title TO THE POINTIndianapolis Museum of Art, June 15 through September 7, 2014The first exhibition devoted solely to...
View ArticleRenaissance Impressions Chiaroscuro woodcuts from the Collections of Georg...
Royal Academy15 March—8 June 2014This exhibition features the beautiful art of Chiaroscuro woodcuts in works from two of the finest collections in the world. Conceived as independent works or based on...
View ArticleAnders Zorn at the National Academy Museum, NYC
VenuesThe Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter, November 9, 2013–February 2, 2014, (click on link for lots more information and images)National Academy Museum 1083...
View ArticleThe Great War in Portraits
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