An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...
After all, as the American painter Ad Reinhardt once quipped: “Art is too serious to be taken seriously.” The year in art included plenty of snark over new depictions of the British royal ...
Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter ...