A quick study: Who was Jusepe de Ribera? Who was St. Paul the First Hermit? And why did the artist paint the saint? The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has recently received an exciting long-term loan — from the Cummins Family Collection — of the painting St. Paul […]
Best known today for large-scale paintings that were provocative in the early 1860s, Manet shifted his focus and produced a different, though no less radical, body of work In the late 1870s and early 1880s. A major exhibitin at the Getty looks at these later years. […]
The whereabouts of a masterwork by 19th-century French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) were unknown between the time of its recorded sale in 1850 until 2018, when it was discovered in a Paris apartment. Now it’s coming to live in the US. […]
On the weekend of September 28 & 29, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), in Salem MA, will offer FREE admission to celebrate the opening of its 40,000 sq ft addition and a new, evocative garden. […]
Located in a small town west of Boston, this museum is the only one in the USA dedicated to Russian icons, and it now holds the largest collection of Russian icons outside Russia. […]
Now it’s easier than ever to discover art museums, botanical and sculpture gardens, historic houses, and artists’ studios in any city or state in the US! The ArtGeek database includes almost 1300 listings, and we’re adding more every day! […]
A world-class museum in an unexpected place presents the history of American Art in the Heart of America. Wander waterside pavillions in a wooded Ozark ravine at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American art — Early, Modern and Contemporary. […]
An important museum in it’s art historical niche, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe NM, holds the premier collection in the world of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations and other Indigenous peoples. Read how Native artists contribute to mainstream art movements — without losing touch with their diverse cultural traditions. […]
The Chihuly Collection at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL is a textbook example of the artist’s creative genius, from his glasswork to exhibit design. […]
“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.“ Combining the rational with the fantastical — in architecture, art and human terms — the Salvador Dalí Museum celebrates the life and work of Salvador Domingo […]