#Art History

Articles (11)

• 🇺🇸 MoMA Survey Shows How Marcel Duchamp Changed the Art Game — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder.

  Related: #Cultural Critique, #Modernism
• 🇬🇧 Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Mors Imperator caused a scandal in 1887 amid fears it mocked the German kaiser – more than 100 years later it is being displayed in a state museum</p><p>Wrapped in a cloak with ermine fur and weari...

  Related: #Politics, #Society
• 🇬🇧 ‘Old masters too’: Ghent exhibition celebrates female artists of the baroque — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Show in part a rediscovery of more than 40 mostly forgotten women who plied their trade in the Low Countries</p><p>Judith Leyster, an artist of the Dutch golden age, was thought to be about 21 when...

  Related: #Gender Representation
• 🇬🇧 Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige review – how two Japanese masters reinvented art — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>Whitworth, Manchester</strong><br>Hokusai’s breathtaking woodblock print may be ubiquitous today but, as this startling show reminds us, it’s also an apocalyptic vision of a world about to ...

  Related: #Japanese Masters
• 🇺🇸 Reframing Georgia O&apos;Keeffe&apos;s legacy and protecting the land she loved — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Georgia O&apos;Keeffe called the New Mexico high desert "my country," but Pueblo peoples predated her. A more complex view is emerging amid efforts to preserve the land.

  Related: #Land Preservation, #Cultural Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera Netflix Series in the Works (EXCLUSIVE) — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  A Netflix series on the tempestuous relationship between iconic Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is in the works, with Patricia Riggen (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) and writer-director-produc...

  Related: #Biographical Series
• 🇺🇸 Does AI See like Art Historians? Interpreting How Vision Language Models Recognize Artistic Style — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.11024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: VLMs have become increasingly proficient at a range of computer vision tasks, such as visual question answering and object detection. This includes i...

  Related: #AI Interpretation
• 🇺🇸 "Framed": Highlighting the art that surrounds art — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  A current show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art puts the spotlight on a rarely-appreciated component of art: the picture frames that border it. Faith Salie explores the history of framing art, and ta...

  Related: #Art Presentation
• 🇬🇧 An Unknown Woman: how I discovered a hidden tragedy tied to Russia’s most famous painting — 20/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an unt...

  Related: #Personal Connections, #Cultural Memory, #Tragedy and Art
• 🇬🇧 Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>National Portrait Gallery, London</strong> <br>Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? </p><p>If pai...

  Related: #Exhibition, #Portraiture
• 🇺🇸 Philadelphia Art Museum invites visitors into the world of surrealism — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  An exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Museum marks 100 years of surrealism, showcasing captivating paintings, sculptures and films that trace the movement's origins and its power to transport us beyond r...

  Related: #Culture, #Anniversary