As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for marking its memories in the public mind. By Sam Lubell Christie’s ...
Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint ...
Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...
Painting miniatures is a good, chill time. Since I picked the hobby back up in 2017 I’ve spent hundreds of hours away from my screens, listening to good music and great podcasts. And ...
The ascendancy of the castrato singer constitutes one of the more bizarre aspects of European cultural history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From 1650 to 1800 the most sought-after ...
The newfound painting was likely created a few months before Picasso started his official portrait. "Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money. However ...
The centerpiece is a portrait of original cast member, castrato Senesino. John Vandenbank’s 1725 painting depicts the singer in character as Bertarido. He is shown in costume, described at the time as ...
February 21, 2025 • Several entertainers and artists have severed ties with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since President Trump assumed chairmanship of the organization.
The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice, which got its first Dallas Opera performance Friday night at the ...