The rooms were dimly lit and majestic, and the paintings of Eugène Delacroix were larger than life. The Metropolitan Museum presented these...
Howard Schwartz 12 November 2018
Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich have much in common. Both were artists. Both were deeply affected by the Russian Revolution. Almost everything is...
Howard Schwartz 19 October 2018
For centuries we have seen artists copying others’ work in order to learn how to draw correctly or to find out what style they want to follow.
Helena Pereira 10 October 2018
The Advancing Women Artists foundation (AWA) is a group that aims to restore female artists to the world. Founded by Jane Fortune after a trip to...
Alexandra Kiely 27 September 2018
American sculptor, Alexander Calder, most famous for his kinetic moving, suspended mobile sculptures, also created a number of massive stationary...
Nadine Waldmann 25 September 2018
The year 1886 was a turning point for Paul Gauguin’s career as a painter. That was the year when the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany, France,...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 September 2018
The movie ‘Final Portrait’ is a faithful rendition of the book by James Lord, ‘A Giacometti Portrait.’ The book was published in 1965, a year...
Howard Schwartz 19 September 2018
The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus, has fascinated...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 27 August 2018
Edith Harms, the future wife of Egon Schiele, lived with her sister, Adele and their parents across the street from Schiele’s studio at the...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 August 2018
In the delightfully quirky Hepworth Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, is a quiet exhibition that packs a whole range of mad surrealism in three...
Wendy Gray 7 August 2018
Can you imagine seeing your whole day in just one photograph? In Stephen Wilkes’ photos it’s possible! Photos are related to our past...
Cisem Ozkal 31 July 2018
I am not Catholic. And I am not up on the latest fashions. Yet here I was, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Fifth Avenue with...
Howard Schwartz 30 July 2018
