Bringing you a mix of the high-minded, eccentric, regal, random and unmissable events as we look ahead at the unmissable events of 2017. Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction Shining a light on the artistic achievements of women between the end of World War I and the beginning of the feminist movement in the late 1960s, Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction features 100 landmark works—many on view for the first time at the famous...
A collector’s obsession with Japanese art: Hokusai reminds us of the exceptional influence his Japanese art has had on the western world. It was the time when Vincent Van Gogh was collecting woodblock prints, many that were discarded packaging from goods shipped from Japan to Europe. As is well known, Van Gogh became strongly influenced by the style, as did many other painters of the period, including Gauguin, Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, and this influence from Japan changed...
