Catherine Murphy Makes the Ordinary Inexplicable
The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.
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Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code
Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics.
Mary Cassatt Was Forever an American in Paris
In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Caskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined.
Painting in Pompeii “Rediscovered” as Andrea Mantegna Original
Now on view in the Vatican Museums, the work was newly attributed to the Renaissance master after flying under the radar for centuries.
Yale Center for British Art Reopens With a Lesson About Empires
As the nation’s institutions are attacked from within, the Louis Kahn-designed museum marks its return with works by JMW Turner, Tracey Emin, and more.
The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy
The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy From 21 March to 29 June 2025, the Royal Academy presents the exhibition “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo” Source: Royal Academy · Image: Victor Hugo, “The Cheerful Castle”, c. 1847. Pen, brush, pencil, stencil, ink and cardboard on paper, 15.8 x 22.2 cm. Maisons […]
Trump-Appointed Museum Agency Leader Vows to “Restore Focus on Patriotism”
Keith Sonderling’s appointment to the Institute of Museum and Library Services has caused alarm among freedom of expression advocacy groups.
Nona Faustine, Photographer Who Pictured Enslavement’s Unseen Histories and Black Women’s Perseverance, Dies at 48
Her series “White Shoes” was the subject of an acclaimed Brooklyn Museum show last year.