“David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most internationally renowned living artists. The exhibition is the first to focus on his portraits on paper, and one of very few to investigate his drawing practice. Featuring over 100 drawings and prints, it will trace a… Read More
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Tawny Chatmon: Inheritance at Fotografiska New York*
“Tawny Chatmon is a self-taught artist working in the field of photography for over 16 years. She sees her photographs as a first layer of communication, further articulated by uniting them with other photographic and artistic elements, including paint, digital collage, illustration and gold leaf.… Read More
Jordan Casteel: Within Reach at New Museum, through May 24, 2020*
“The New Museum presents Jordan Casteel: Within Reach, an exhibition of work by New York–based artist Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, Colorado), on view in the Museum’s Second Floor Gallery. Bringing together nearly forty paintings spanning her career, including works from her celebrated series Visible… Read More
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture at The Frick Collection, February 21 – June 2, 2019
“In Renaissance Italy, one of the aims of portraiture was to make the absent seem present through naturalistic representation of the sitter. This notion—that art can capture an individual exactly as he or she appears—is exemplified in the work of Giovanni Battista Moroni. The artist… Read More
Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings at The Met Fifth Avenue, October 16, 2018 – January 27, 2019
“Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19–1594) was one of the preeminent Venetian painters of the 16th century and was renowned for his dynamic narrative scenes and insightful portraits. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth, The Met presents Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings. This… Read More
Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables at Whitney Museum of American Art, March 2 – June 10, 2018
“Grant Wood (1891–1942) became an overnight celebrity following the debut of American Gothic, his now-iconic portrait of a Midwestern farm couple, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. Only a year earlier, he had been a relatively unknown painter of French Impressionist–inspired landscapes in… Read More
National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portraits of Former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama, On View in the Galleries Beginning Tuesday, February 13, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveiled its commissioned portraits of former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively. Before President Obama’s departure from office, he and Mrs. Obama selected Wiley and Sherald to paint their likenesses for the… Read More
Zeng Fanzhi | Van Gogh at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, through February 25, 2018
“In ‘Zeng Fanzhi | Van Gogh’, the Van Gogh Museum presents five works by Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964), one of the best-known contemporary Chinese artist and a fervent admirer of Vincent van Gogh. Zeng has already exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée… Read More
David Hockney at The Met Fifth Avenue, November 27, 2017 – February 25, 2018
“For nearly sixty years, David Hockney (British, born 1937) has explored how to translate movement, space, and time into two dimensions, working across a wide range of media with equal measures of wit and intelligence. From his earliest engagements with modernist abstraction to his most recent, jewel-toned landscapes,… Read More
Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 30 – October 4, 2015
Photographs by Corrado Serra
Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris at The Drawing Center, April 10 – June 28, 2015
Images courtesy The Drawing Center
El Greco in New York and Bartholomeus Spranger at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, until February 1, 2015
Images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
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