Mexico’s surrealist painters and writers are well-known; perhaps less familiar are its surrealist photographers.
New Life for a Renaissance Woman from Brooklyn
Back in January, a painting at Skinner Auctions’ sale of American and European Works of Art caught the eye of journalist and historian Eve M. Kahn. It was striking: a seated, semi-nude woman wearing a long, flowing train, tightly cropped and rendered with deft, impressionistic brush strokes. Kahn was eager to learn more about the artist, Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881–1962), but the facts of the Brooklyn native’s life proved elusive.
Farther afield
In Antwerp, an arts festival toasts the legacy of Peter Paul Rubens
How Thomas Cole learned the ABCs of landscape art
Even in such early work as The Clove, Catskills (1827) and View of Monte Video, the Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq. (1828), the facture and compositional strategies employed by Thomas Cole—a working-class boy from northern England, self-taught as an artist—demonstrated surprising conversance with European landscape painting of the time.
A hungry eye’s selections at the Annenberg Space
Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library, on view this summer at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles
A Johnson Collection initiative debuts in Georgia
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
Battling the damp at a Scottish landmark
Protecting a Mackintosh masterpiece in Helensburgh, Scotland
In Venice, the stones of Syria
Peter Aaron’s photographs preserve the majesty of Levantine sites damaged and destroyed in the ongoing conflict.
Lasting impressions
Classic lithographs at the Zimmerli
Curious Objects: Secret History of a Windsor Chair
Benjamin Miller, host of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, interviewed Michael Pashby of Michael Pashby Antiques about a Windsor chair with interesting history. Made about 1790 by Gillows, it’s composed primarily of ash and has a sycamore seat.