Vincent van Gogh “Landscape at Twilight” (1890) On paper, at least, “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” at the Museum of Modern Art reads like an obvious play for big box office and increased membership. But this exhibition largely dodges such charges and instead quietly displays 23 paintings, 9 drawings and several letters [...]

La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, inaugurates the 11th International Architecture Exhibition titled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, and directed by Aaron Betsky. The Exhibition will take place from Sunday September 14th through Sunday November 23rd 2008. According to Aaron Betsky – for six years director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in [...]

Dewdrops on dainty petals, light glancing off precious silverware, candied confectionery in blue and white Chinese porcelain bowls, the soft plumage of a dead songbird, the pale hue of a skull – still lifes have not ceased to exercise their spell upon us to this day with their close-up views of inanimate, yet by no [...]

Artistic talent often runs in the blood. That was certainly the case with the De Bray family, a clan of devout Catholic painters active in Haarlem in north Holland during the heyday of the Dutch Golden Age. In all likelihood, you won’t have come across the De Brays, who have been eclipsed by their more [...]

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery in London (NGL) are working together with the Duke of Sutherland to secure the long-term future of the Bridgewater loan of Old Master paintings. The Bridgewater Collection, currently on view at the NGS, is the most important private collection of Old Master paintings on loan [...]

The Latin American collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is back on view after three years’ absence. And the reinstallation opens with a piquant flourish in a display of ancient pre-Columbian art that doubles as a solo show for a contemporary artist, and looks like a nightclub interior. The artist, Jorge Pardo, [...]

The Bass Museum of Art presents today 20th Century Works on Paper from the Fundacion Mapfre Collection: Picasso, Tàpies, Miró and Others , on view through November 2, 2008. This extraordinary exhibition is comprised of approximately 80 works on paper by some of the 20th century’s most renowned Spanish artists, as well as artists from [...]