My first exposure to Dan Flavin’s classic fluorescent works was in 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. As a young student, I was mesmerized by the exuberant colors and equally puzzled by the use of commercial lighting. Art or hardware?
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Originally, the mask was adorned by members of all socioeconomic classes to conceal identity. This was necessary since most legal and moral boundaries were blurred during this period, and so were the Venetian Republic’s rules regarding upper and lower social classes intermingling. Originating in the fourteenth century, the Venetian mask was originally intended to serve as a method of inclusiveness.
Staff at both the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) voted to strike over pay and working conditions in late July as European cities recover from a record-breaking heatwave that put long-standing employee concerns in the spotlight. Questions about how prepared many European museums are to withstand extreme climatic events are being raised.
From Naoshima to Chicago, Art & Object brings you eleven popular and thought-provoking public artworks around the world.
The Canton Museum of Art is proud to present Good Times: The Artistic Journey of Ernie Barnes in collaboration with the Ernie Barnes Estate, Ortuzar, New York, and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, coming August 18 – November 1, 2026. In pop culture Barnes’ artwork appears on album covers, television, and movies, especially his iconic dance hall scene, The Sugar Shack (1976).
Don Nice (1932–2019) was a relatively unknown, idiosyncratic artist whose roots spread across the American art landscape from 1960s Pop art back to mid-20th-century American modernism.
As we're now deep into the warm summer months, we're feeling the importance of the sun. Here's a brief look at the sun as a symbol throughout art history.
Opening August 14, 2026, Ventana Fine Art presents an exciting two-artist exhibition of works by Cassidy Watt and Javier Barbosa.
The Smithsonian Institution, long regarded as a trusted keeper of the nation’s shared history, has spent the summer fighting to defend its independence.
Blue Rain Gallery is pleased to present The Good, the Bad and the Raven, a new exhibition of glass sculpture by internationally acclaimed Tlingit artist Preston Singletary, on view August 14–27, 2026, in Santa Fe. Created in collaboration with bestselling author Garth Stein, the exhibition debuts a new body of work that brings the rich storytelling traditions of the Northwest Coast into dialogue with the complexities of the modern world.
