Modern masterworks by celebrated artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse will be featured in an upcoming University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA)-organized exhibition at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St. in downtown Davenport, IA. Jackson Pollock, “Mural,” 1943, oil on canvas, 8′ 1 1/4″ x 19′ 10″. The exhibition, [...]

Utagawa Kuniyoshi “Fishermen at Teppozu”, early 1830s. When you look at works of art that are very foreign to your experience, you naturally seek connection across the divide. Among modern civilisations, Japan provides an extreme example of this gap. Between the 17th century and the 1860s, it pursued a policy of almost complete isolation. Its [...]

Italian art experts say they have discovered a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, painted by an unknown artist. The painting shows him as a middle-aged man, with serious eyes and long, flowing hair. It was displayed at a news conference in Rome on Thursday and will be exhibited in the town of Vaglio from April [...]

This year’s exhibition at Schaulager, ‘Holbein to Tillmans’, assembles approximately 200 paintings and sculptures, created between 1500 and the present, from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel. They are joined by several works from private collections and roughly thirty works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, which is associated with the Kunstmuseum. With this exhibition, Schaulager, [...]