It’s unclear if the artist and Jazz Age socialite Tamara de Lempicka was sleeping with Guido Sommi when she painted his portrait in 1929. “We believe he was her lover,” said Jeremiah Evarts, the head ...
You’ve got to admire the gumption of the curators at London’s Wallace Collection, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. At a moment when “museums and galleries are obsessed with diversity”, they ...
The Foundling Museum in London is crowdfunding for a feminist show that will turn its collection upside down. The museum, which explores the history of the UK’s first children’s charity, the Foundling ...
(from left) MADAME X 1884 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916; Nude study Thomas E. McKeller 1920 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (cropped) John Singer Sargent ...
LONDON — If you are culture hungry in London, and one of your life's greatest wishes is to avoid the vulgar yawp and bustle of shoppers on Oxford Street, there is a ready answer. A couple of streets ...
‘Men in Black’ could be the title of this terrific little exhibition, except really, it’s Men in Black and White. Its centrepiece is the Wallace Collection’s best known work, The Laughing Cavalier, ...
Sharon Sprung, Artist Who Painted Michelle Obama, Working on Yellen's Portrait By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sharon Sprung, the Brooklyn artist who painted the iconic official portrait of ...
The Foundling Museum in London is crowdfunding for a feminist show that will turn its collection upside down. The museum, which explores the history of the UK’s first children’s charity, the Foundling ...