The recently published catalog “Russian Icons: The Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection” serves as an excellent starting point for serious scholarly inquiry into late Russian iconography. The presented collection is distinctive from both aesthetic and religious perspectives, as it focuses on the 17th to early 20th centuries of Russian icon painting—periods often underrepresented in institutional collections.
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There’s hardly any American who wouldn’t recognize Keith Haring art. This artist has become an icon of 20th-century American art, taking a deserved place on par with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Yet, his works are not only a treasure of the museums and galleries; Haring worked extensively with street art, painting the NYC subway station walls and sidewalks. The core idea behind Haring’s art, and street art specifically, was to make art accessible to broad audiences.
The online exhibition “Reflections of a Greater Realm,” held at the Milotska Center for Exhibitions, brings together 37 hand-picked art objects by 25 artists from around the world to celebrate multi-disciplinary art in the best tradition of the digital replication projects by Culturally Arts Collective.
Over 60 Russian icons created from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the private collection of Oleg Kushnirskiy, are currently on view at the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, MA, as part of the exhibition titled “Icons: Old Believers and Their World.” It is the second exhibition of the collection, following its presentation in the USA at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, MN.
The 61st Venice Biennale is about to start in less than two months, and countries are actively preparing for this important international art event. This year’s Pavilion of Ecuador will present the exhibition Tawna & Oscar, marking the collaboration between Oscar Santillán and the Tawna collective, an Ecuadorean anti-colonial collective formed by Kichwa, Sápara, and mestizo artists.
Ukraine is rich in creative talent, and Matthew Morpheus is one of the most promising artists in the contemporary art scene. Many distinguish his art as a bold critique of pressing social and political issues, particularly evident in his recognizable digital collages. A cosmopolitan artist with a wide travel experience, Morpheus experiments with creative techniques and shares his revolutionary ideas through symbolic artwork.
Many fans of Francisco Goya’s art know that he turned to the themes of diabolism, witchcraft, and ritual terror many times throughout his career. Starting from the early commissioned paintings through the satirical Los Caprichos (1799) and the horrific Pinturas negras painted on the walls of the artist’s home, Goya’s paintings are marked with a dark, unsettling inquiry into the depths of human character.
El Greco was an outstanding but long-forgotten 16th-century painter. He died in Toledo in 1614, with most of his artistic legacy, so clearly celebrated in his lifetime, being quickly forgotten over the next century. A variety of historical factors, from the dissolution of the Counter-Reformation network to the shift to naturalism and drama in painting, contributed to the painter’s oblivion.