by News | Jan 1, 2018 | Birdie Girl, News
By Alastair Sooke A 362-year-old painting of a tiny bird has become one of the most popular of its time. But will we ever know what The Goldfinch means? On the face of it, it couldn’t be simpler: a small, charming painting, on a wooden panel, depicting a goldfinch...
by News | Jan 1, 2018 | News, Potentials of Art
Written by Cath Pound René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) is one of the most famous yet persistently enigmatic works in the history of art. One of the word-image series of paintings in which the Belgian artist sought to challenge linguistic...
by News | Dec 21, 2017 | News, Potentials of Art
By Jason Daley SMITHSONIAN.COM The center will bring together researchers, artists, historians and philosophers to learn how art museums can promote empathy and understanding Art has many, and sometimes contrary, purposes. But one value that viewing and thinking about...
by News | Dec 9, 2017 | News, Potentials of Art
~Written by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein~ Photographed by Samantha Reinders~ “It opens the channels for women to express themselves, to clap back, to be heard, to love, to laugh, to pray, to return a gaze to the world. It becomes to a woman whatever she wants it to be: a...
by News | Dec 2, 2017 | News, Potentials of Art
Written by Sarah Cascone from Artnet This month, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will unveil a new show of over 100 Iranian artworks dating from the 6th to the 19th century. The exhibition, titled “Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces From Persian Lands,” is part of the...
by News | Nov 21, 2017 | News, Potentials of Art
Written by Claudia Martin What do art and religion have in common? They both are creations of the unique human brain, a brain that can use the power of imagination to conceive of a past and a future, a brain able to invent multiple fantasy realities to supplement...
