The world’s oldest cave painting was just discovered — and it could rewrite the origins of human history

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...
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A Deep Dive Into the Weird and Wonderful World of Sienese Art

"Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” is more than just a pre-history of the Italian Renaissance. Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea, and Patriarchs and ...
Seven Days

Kent Monkman’s Monumental Queer, Indigenous History Paintings

The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts presents a massive solo show of the Cree First Nations artist’s work, which uses humor to ...
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This Renaissance Painting Was Made by Not One or Two, But Three Old Masters

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

Museum Of Modern Art Continues Long Relationship With Wifredo Lam

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” the most extensive retrospective ...
Hyperallergic

Analyzing the Biases of Western Art History With Hard Data

Data visualization featuring 2018 statistics, from Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art by Diana Seave Greenwald (Princeton University Press, 2021; all images courtesy ...