Artes Magazine

03/25/2014

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2014/03/the-artful-recluse-painting-poetry-and-politics-in-17th-century-china/

Author’s Note: An exhibition of 17th c. paintings and poetry was organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where it premiered in fall 2012. Asia Society Museum was the only other venue for the exhibition, also in 2012. While the exhibit is no longer on view, it sheds light on a period in world c...

02/17/2014

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2014/02/contemporary-artist-richard-humanns-same-river-twice-study-in-accidental-fractals/

Considering information and concepts as fractal in nature, is a basis of mathematical analyses. Fractals are a tool for carrying out analysis of complex forms to reveal simple underlying structures. Yet exploring fractals in ideas and artwork, is an odd concept, until we consider fractals- not just…

10/17/2013

French landscape painter Charles-Francois Daubigny's love of open air painting is believed to have set an important example for the Impressionists.

On view: Charles-Francois Daubigny, Landscape Along a Country Road, ca. 1860

09/23/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/pinboard/the-phillips-collection-washington-d-c/

The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Posted by admin, on September 23, 20130 The Phillips Collection, opened to the public in 1921 in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood presents works of modern art in an intimate setting.. Paintings by Renoir and Rothko, Bonnard and O’Keeffe, Van G...

09/18/2013

New Arts Pin Board.
http://www.artesmagazine.com/pinboard/

WelcomeARTES regularly presents in-depth articles and opinion on artwork in all its forms: painting, sculpture, art installations and photography. Our fine art reporting also includes architecture and design. Our experienced team reports on recent and upcoming museum and art gallery exhibitions in c...

07/01/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/06/washingtons-national-gallery-of-art-with-diaghilevs-ballets-russes-1909-1929/

The Ballets Russes—the most innovative dance company of the early 20th century—propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking collaborations between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion designers. Founded by Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev (1872–1929) in P...

04/01/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/03/phillys-new-barnes-foundation-with-faithful-interpretation-of-collectors-vision/

In July, 1929, months before the stock market crash that resulted in the Great Depression of the 1930s, Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, 1872 – July 24, 1951), sold his company for some $6 million. He made a vast fortune on the manufacture and sale of the antiseptic drug Argyrol, used to treat gonor...

03/29/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/03/sacred-symbol-of-armenian-church-national-identity-caught-up-in-regional-politics/

The Cross is arguably the most familiar symbol of Christianity, but nowhere is this iconography as crucial or culture-entrenched, as it is in Armenia. Wherever you go, thousands of khachkars, or Armenian cross-stones, pervade the mountainous conscience of the world’s oldest Christian nation, providi...

03/26/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/03/antiquorum-gallery-new-york-with-lost-and-found-the-pinajian-discovery/

To launch Rediscovered Masters, art historian Peter Hastings Falk assembled Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, the first in a series of exhibitions dedicated to deserving late-career artists and/or those have passed on and whose achievements have been forgotten or overlooked. An important examp...

03/26/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/02/oklahoma-universitys-fred-jones-jr-museum-with-40s-retrospective/

“Only in a democracy where the full development of the individual is not only permitted but fostered could such an exhibition be assembled.” – William Benton, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1946)

02/22/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/02/mass-moca-showcases-chinese-contemporary-artist-xu-bing/

In 1995, the gallery of the Massachusetts College of Art presented Language Lost, a deconstruction of text and communication by Xu Bing. Seventeen years later Phoenix, two enormous, junk metal birds (left), are suspended in the vast space of Building Five of Mass MoCA. They will remain on view for t...

02/19/2013

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/02/california-impressionism-paintings-from-irvine-collection-at-u-new-hampshire-museum/

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, California’s spectacular landscape was the catalyst for a profusion of light-filled paintings. Artists determined to capture its vivid colors painted the landscapes in a distinctive style that has come to be called California Impressionism or Cali...