Andrew Wyeth earned a reputation as one of the greatest realist painters of the 20th century. His sparse, muted landscapes, painted in the Pennsylvania and Maine settings (featured image: Olsen House in Cushing, ME, depicted in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina's World”), shaped a distinct artistic tradition in American art. However, the 1986 revelation of 247 secret paintings of Wyeth’s authorship shook the local and international art community.
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Art takes different forms today, as creatives experiment with various self-expression modes and mediums. The “Da Race on Wheels” project by Mitchell Schorr and the art logistics company Fine Art Shippers is an illustrative example of an unconventional approach to art and a drive to make it more accessible to people. A result of this collaboration, the art van painted by the artist is up for sale, giving serious art collectors an opportunity to get hold of Mitchell Schorr’s iconic artwork.
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.
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.
The Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru declared that a semi-arid plain in the foothills of the Himalayas would be the future of India. He envisioned a new city of Chandigarh in this place – a new capital of Punjab, which had to be built from the ground up for the nation that survived one of the bloodiest partitions in human history.