Matisse. People, Masks, Models is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Henri Matisse’s portraits. Matisse (1869 – 1954) not only created colorful interior scenes and still life paintings but also very expressive portraits. He regarded portraits as his most important artistic challenge. For Matisse, a “true” likeness was not achieved merely by capturing a [...]

Kunstmuseum Basel presents today Pablo Picasso: Prints, on view through May 24, 2009. Pablo Picasso applied himself with great intensity to the specific possibilities of print techniques. From woodcuts and etchings to lithographs and linoleum cuts, he employed every known printing method with stupendous ease and mastery, developing complex mixed techniques and experimenting with polychrome [...]

The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art will be on view at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame from January 11 to March 15, 2009. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, the exhibition features 53 works on paper produced in the 16th, [...]

History painting was regarded as the pinnacle of High Art and strongly promoted by Sir Joshua Reynolds above other genres such as portraiture, landscape and still life. This new display includes major works given by early Members of the Royal Academy to the Collection including biblical subjects by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley and John [...]

In keeping with annual tradition, the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) will go on display in the National Gallery of Ireland from 1-31 January 2009. The 31 watercolours of the Vaughan Bequest on show span the artist’s career and include a number of examples from his Continental tours, which depict [...]

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. That may not mean much to most of the art world’s hipper denizens, but it will to visionary and psychedelic-art fans for whom the chapel has been a mecca since it opened in 2004. Alex Grey, “Seraphic Transport Docking on [...]

The Groninger Museum presents the largest-ever retrospective of works by the world-famous British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Many splendid paintings and drawings have been borrowed from locations as far afield as Australia, England, Ireland, Taiwan and Canada. The exhibition has been organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the [...]