News

Featured on artnews.com

Forty years after her landmark installation The Dinner Party (1974–79) made its debut in San Francisco, Judy Chicago will get a homecoming of sorts in the largest exhibition of her work to date—a full-dress retrospective set to open next year in the Californian city’s de Young Museum. The artist announced the exhibition, which will open in May 2020, on Friday night at a celebration for her 80th birthday held in Belen, New Mexico, where she lives.

In the early 1980s, the death of a young graffiti artist in police custody shocked and enraged the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring – and changed the city’s creative community for ever, writes Matt Barker.

Featured on bbc.com

The field of neuroaesthetics uses neuroscience to understand how art affects our brains, both when we’re making it and when we’re viewing it.

Featured on daily.jstor.org

Featured on washingtonpost.com

The dentist I went to as a child had posters of Impressionist paintings on the ceiling. I remember lying back and gazing through my discomfort and pain at a thronging lunch party by Renoir, a Degas ballerina, and a sunlit field of poppies by Monet.

The National Arts Program has been privileged to have a long-standing NAP exhibit in the City of Pittsburgh. This was their 20th Annual Showcase and in honor of this anniversary the NAP presented long time coordinator, Le Frankowski, with a piece of art from a local Pittsburgh artist named Murph McCulloch. Her artwork was entitled ‘Shapes of the Rainbow’ and the statement which accompanied the piece stated that “this painting was one of my first pieces showcasing my transition from artist to woodworker. Looking at this now, it is evident the things I would change.

The National Arts Program was pleased to welcome back the City of Westminster, Colorado for their second NAP exhibit under the new coordination of Kristen Koehler, Cultural Affairs Specialist for the City’s Parks, Recreation & Libraries Department.  Kristen stepped right in and was extremely proactive in her new role as coordinator.  As a result, this year’s exhibition showcased 122 pieces from city employees, volunteers, retirees and their immediate family members.

Mary Lee Mansfield hit the ground running as she took over coordination of this year’s Reno-Tahoe International Airport exhibit now in their 11th year.  Part of this can be attributed to her involvement shadowing previous long-time coordinator Kim Matthews during their 2018 show, which helped give her the confidence to take over such a successful program.  Along with her first-hand experience, Mary Lee brought her own creative talents to the new role.

Art dealers and auctioneers are getting creative to tap into the coveted new demographic.

Featured on news.artnet.com

Despite a flurry of online art startups launching in the past decade, the art world remains dominated by elite auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s

Featured on theguardian.com

You’d expect the art trade to have changed radically since auction houses first came into existence around 300 years ago. But the market is still dominated by two of the world’s oldest sales houses: 253-year-old Christie’s, and Sotheby’s – which turned 275 this year.

Paintings of the geysers and mountains of the western landscape have played a pivotal role in the area's history.

Featured on nationalgeographic.com

On a bright morning in late June, Shirl Ireland stands in her backyard painting majestic Mount Sepulchre, which rises from the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park.

What happens when changing technologies render once-avant-garde works of art outdated? See how a growing group of conservators is trying to keep art alive.

Featured on popularmechanics.com

For the 100 years it’s been in operation, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio has been a repository for artwork by American masters, from preeminent 19th-century painters like Winslow Homer, to 20th-century realists like Edward Hopper and George Bellows, to pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Featured on artsy.net

For many, the museum presents a foreboding experience, a sacred temple that is uninviting to those unwilling to embrace the solemnity that viewing “great art” requires. Perhaps it’s not the classical columns or imposing marble staircases that create an aura of pompous seriousness. Walking down those grand halls among hundreds of years of masterpieces, there’s rarely a face smiling out at you.

Featured on forbes.com

Until 2011, the reason to travel to Bentonville, Arkansas was to do business with Wal-Mart. But now, the town in the northwestern corner of the state is home to one of America’s great art museums, the first major art museum to open in the United States since 1974.