MoMA picks chief curator of prints and drawings as next director
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 28, 2025
Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museums director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions
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How Japonisme Shaped Modern Art
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MARCH 20, 2024
Coined in the late 19th century to describe the Western craze for Japanese art and design, the influence of Japonisme blossomed after Japanese ports reopened to Western trade in 1854 after being closed to the West for over 200 years, and in doing so helped to lay the foundations for Modern Art. And in Japonisme they found it.
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Les Nabis Revealed: The 8 Artists Who Redefined Modern Art as We Know It
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JUNE 5, 2024
Energized to achieve a “beauty beyond visible reality,” the Nabis group of French artists challenged convention to create a new artistic vision, as they harnessed Paul Gauguin’s synthetism to envisage an exciting alternative that would usher in the age of modern art.
Print or Poster?
MIR Appraisal
AUGUST 11, 2022
Images printed on paper. They're everywhere; printed images adorn our surroundings and broadcast information. But the word itself, "print," is vague and overarching. The word is self-explanatory by nature of its verb-form:"a print is what you get when you *print* a marking substance onto a surface."
Work of the Week: James Rosenquist’s ‘F-111 (south) (west) (north) (east) (G. 73)’
Artnet News
MARCH 6, 2024
The famed painting that is the basis for this print suite has a full gallery to itself at the Museum of Modern Art. The post Work of the Week: James Rosenquist’s ‘F-111 (south) (west) (north) (east) (G. 73)’ appeared first on Artnet News.
Mabel Dwight's American Scene
Michael Rose Fine Art
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Looking back at American art in the twentieth century, some of the most valuable visual resources are those produced by printmakers. Church, 1936, lithograph on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.83.46
Constructivism: The Intersection of Art and Industry in the Avant-Garde Movement
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Emerging from the 1917 revolution in the newly formed Soviet Union, Constructivism wasn’t only the most influential modern art movement in 20th century Russia, but its visualization of a new aesthetic language brought with it a sea change in how we view art that redefined the role of art in society.
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