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French Salon
The newly renovated French Salon provides an opulent setting for nearly one hundred French silver objects, showcasing the craftsmanship of…
Although best known as a painter, Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) began to experiment with film in 1970. From that point on, she created animations using…
I didn’t grow up going to art museums. My parents never took me, but that didn’t mean they didn’t bring art into my life. Art was all around me in my…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Unique among his peers at the vanguard of postwar American art, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) sought inspiration from ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian…
Tiningo’ si Sirena: A Conversation with Gisela Charfauros McDaniel and Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel
Håfa Adai —hello! I recently spoke with artist Gisela Charfauros McDaniel and her mother, scholar Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel, to discuss Gisela’s…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Simply defined, a miniature is an object smaller than its parent object—compare a chair made for a dolls’ house at two inches tall with a normal-sized…
The first time I ever visited the Museum of Fine Arts, I was only a few weeks into my first semester of college. I was new to Boston and more…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Who creates your image? In portraits by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), sitters assume elegant stances, the fabric of their dress richly depicted in…
Tintypes—or ferrotypes—were first introduced in the US in the 1850s. Made by printing photographic images onto sheets of thin metal, they were…
Eddie Chambers is an art historian and critic and the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He…