“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 (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
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
“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
“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
Photographs by Corrado Serra
Images courtesy The Drawing Center
Images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
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