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The enigmatic Irish-born architect and designer Eileen Gray tiptoes a curious historical line between obscurity and cult legend, all depending on whom you ask. On the one hand, she has been called the “Mother of Modernity,” a name given to her by Cloé Pitiot, a leading scholar of Gray’s life and work and the curator […] More
A painting of David and Goliath newly hailed by experts as the work of Artemisia Gentileschi will, alas, not be a late addition to the National Gallery’s forthcoming first-ever exhibition celebrating the most famous Italian female artist of the 17th century. But a conservation studio in London is stepping in to show the picture anyway. […] More
This October, two weeks before the presidential election, Prospect New Orleans will open its fifth edition in the Big Easy. And like past iterations of the triennial, it will be ambitious, taking on topics that meet at the junction of past and present, local and national, private and public. Organized by curators Naima J. Keith and […] More
Since 1754, one of Raphael’s most enigmatic paintings, , has resided at the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden (besides a short stint during which the painting headed to Russia, following the German’s loss in World War II). This weekend, the Madonna and her two iconic little angels are on view within a new constellation […] More
The designer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Neri Oxman has spent the last 20 years of her career thinking about new ways to live. She pushes at the boundaries between theoretical and functional design, the built environment and the natural one. She has conceptualized workable things that feel like they shouldn’t exist for another hundred […] More
The scientific committee of the Uffizi has collectively resigned in protest over the Florence museum’s decision to loan out Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X. The historic work is currently on view in Rome, despite the expert group’s recommendation that the painting was not in a state to be moved. The mass resignation occurred yesterday, […] More
It’s not easy for a young artist to make a name for herself. But it can be even more of a struggle for non-Western artists, like emerging Palestinian talent Dina Mimi, who lives and works in Jerusalem. It may be similarly challenging for Tunisian DJ and producer Deena Abdelwahed, a woman immersed in the male-dominated electronic […] More
Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they deserve. A scholarly new exhibition in Frankfurt has brought together works by 34 important artists, several of whom have been long overlooked and excluded from the male-dominated art historical canon. The quantity and diversity of […] More
