What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...
With its recent acquisition of 11 Japanese avant-garde photographic works last month, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden hopes to incorporate “an unprecedented critical history of the postwar ...
Now Ukrainians are being forced to fight, once more, for independence is an appropriate time to reveal that many artists of the so-called Russian avant-garde were actually from Ukraine. Famous ...
The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions. The term carries an association of being daring, ...
Art history doesn’t have to live in the past, as proved by the Flux Factory exhibition Ero Guro Nansensu, which closes today. Mavo was only active from 1923 to 1926, yet the movement’s artists were ...
Half of the works were bought from disgraced dealer Itzhak Zarug who has since been found guilty of falsifying provenance. Another painting by Wassily Kandinsky, Winter Landscape (1909). Found in the ...
Avant-garde art: a desire to create new forms of expression. Influencing culture through experimentation with new techniques and mediums, artists were often the first to embrace new technologies and ...
The Industrial Arts Co-op's "Walking Stick" as photographed in the South Side's Brew House in the early 2000s. Pittsburgh native Sheila Ali grew up partly in Maine but returned in the late ’80s, and ...