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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…
Over the course of some three thousand years, Ancient Egypt fostered a vibrant and dynamic portrait tradition that encompassed innovations, revivals…
Frank Bowling’s Americas
New York, 1966–75
When the British Guiana–born artist Frank Bowling relocated from London to New York in 1966, he found an art scene in flux, with abstract painting…
Unique among his peers at the vanguard of postwar American art, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) sought inspiration from ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian…
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…
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…
Dell Marie Hamilton (b. 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator. Born in New York City and raised in Boston, she has…
When “5+1” took place in 1969, Adger Cowans was a successful young Black photographer and a dear friend of participating artist Daniel LaRue Johnson…