Claude Monet, Water Lily Pond, 1917–1919 Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Claude Monet’s iconic renderings of water lilies were born of a monumental project he steadfastly pursued during the last decades of his life. Comprising a string of paintings, numbering 250 in all with some running up to 40 feet in width, they …
Donald Moffett, Aluminum/White House Unmoored (still), 2004. Photo Dan Bradica Studio/©2025 Donald Moffett/Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Anthony Meier, Mill Valley The title of Donald Moffett’s latest exhibition, “Snowflake,” is a deliberate provocation.“I don’t identify as a snowflake,” he told me, a week before the opening of the show, his first New York solo …
Sally Mann. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and …
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Gabriele Stötzer, ‘Lippen mit Draht’, 1983. © Gabriele Stötzer, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy LOOCK Galerie, Berlin On the banks of a glacial river high in the Swiss Alps, in a subterranean stone room among the remnants of a 12th-century Benedictine monastery, one can find the photographs of Gabriele Stötzer.The images are small and rudimentary, …
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Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665 Mauritshuis Collection, The Hague, Netherlands. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Everybody loves a good mystery. That may explain why, for generations, art lovers have sought to learn the identity of the unknown subject in Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665–67). Her ineffable pose (looking …
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Clara Peeters, Still Life of Fish and Cat, after 1620 Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC. For a coterie of early modern women artists spanning the 15th to 18th centuries, the past decade has marked a whirlwind of rediscovery. Unlike many contemporary women artists who have experienced elusive or …
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Sylvain Amic. Photo Luc Castel/Getty Images Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay last year, died on Sunday in southern France at 58. Rima Abdul Malak, the former French culture minister, told the New York Times that Amic died of heart failure. His death has been treated with shock, …
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Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …
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Jota Mombaça’s 2022 Kadist show in San Francisco. Courtesy Kadist Kadist, a Paris-based nonprofit known for commissioning works by key artists, will shutter its San Francisco space after 14 years, bringing an end to one of the city’s richest non-commercial art venues. The organization announced the closure on social media late on Thursday evening, writing …
Rosalyn Drexler at ringside, 1972. Photo Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images Rosalyn Drexler, whose paintings of the 1960s about Hollywood actors, on-screen violence, and gender subversion have in recent years gained widespread praise, died in New York on Wednesday at 98. A spokesperson for New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her death but …
