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Tate Britain's Now You See Us: 10 firsts of extraordinary women artists in Britain, abandoned by art...
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoThis groundbreaking exhibition re-introduces 110 forgotten female professional artists. Here are 10...
Major Berlin show marks 250th anniversary of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoBERLIN (AP) — A major show of Caspar David Friedrich's iconic landscapes that marks the 250th...
Many intimate Renaissance portraits were hidden behind covers — this new exhibition explores why
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPortraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted...
Fake masterpieces fooled collectors. The FBI caught on after a decade.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoEarl Marshawn Washington’s replicas of centuries-old European woodcuts were so exquisite people believed they really were from the heyday of the art form, and he sold them as precious examples ...
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoRecent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art...
Diana’s dress? Marie-Antoinette’s gilded chair? Collectors are weird
The Telegraph via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoCollectibles. If there’s one noun that makes my heart sink it’s collectibles. Thimbles, watches,...
William Blake was called a 'lunatic' in his lifetime. The Getty hails him as a visionary now
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoWilliam Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.
X-ray reveals this 16th-century portrait got a cheekbone glow-up
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoYoung Derich Born’s cheekbones were not always sharp enough to peel apples — new research reveals...
Peter Howson: new retrospective reveals how Scots painter found redemption after Bosnian war
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoPeter Howson’s story is one of seeking dignity in human suffering and violence, and finding redemption; it is also uniquely Scottish. When The Apple Ripens, Howson’s retrospective at Edinburgh ...
Your mullet is more than a haircut, it's a political statement – a hair historian explains
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoFrom Paul Mescal at the Baftas to Emma Corrin’s Governors Awards “mixie” haircut, the 1970s-inspired...