Founded in 1852, the Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Founded to collect, preserve, study, and present art from all over the world, the gallery is housed in three interconnected buildings that cover one and a half city blocks. Free and open to the public, the gallery’s massive collections span human history and multiple genres.
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Ballet played a formative role in the life of gallerist Susan Eisner Eley. In an interview with Art & Object, Eley explained, “I danced through my entire childhood. I danced through school. But when I majored in Art History at Brown University, it was a discovery. I knew this was it!”
The light in the room glows yellow. Sounds are muffled, except for the familiar four-note bass line. Pixelated aliens rain down from the top of the screen. I shoot, but am quickly defeated by Space Invaders. I am not in an amusement arcade, nor in a pub. I am in a museum surrounded by people whose ages range from 5 to 80 years old. The excitement belongs to children and teenagers; the nostalgia to those over 30.
One of the art world’s rising stars, Paris and NYC-based French painter Alexandre Lenoir (1992) captivates audiences with his otherworldly, mysterious creations of paint and masking tape.
Miami, Florida— once only thought of as a source of sun, sand, and sea offering winter refuge from cultural centers in the northern cities of New York, Boston, or Chicago— has become one of the fastest growing art markets in the country.
A celebrated Pop artist in the 1950s and '60s, Marisol faded from the limelight in the 1970s and '80s as her style changed and the art world embraced new movements. When she passed away in 2016 at age 85, she left her estate, including artworks, photographs, library papers, and even her New York City apartment to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Museum), which was the earliest museum to acquire her work in 1962.
San Francisco-based artist Chelsea Ryoko Wong and her multi-colored paintings might mark the close of Jessica Silverman’s summer season, but their figurations are a timeless reminder of what it feels like to remain in a “summer state of mind.”
The first thing to know about Matthew Barney’s new project, SECONDARY, is that it has been divided into four parts. Each is being shown respectively at Regen Projects (LA) commencement, Galerie Max Hetzler (Paris) object impact, Sadie Coles HQ (London) light lens parallax, and Gladstone Gallery (NY) object replay.
Mary Cassatt’s oil painting, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, was rejected for the Paris Exposition of 1878. Cassatt later said that the rejection was “by a jury of three people, of which one was a pharmacist!” Her good friend, Edgar Degas, approved of the painting and had even advised her about the background light from the far window.
Established in 1966 and housed in the historic Button Mansion on State Street at Prospect Avenue, The David Barnett Gallery is one of Wisconsin’s oldest and largest purveyors of fine art. This collection of over 6,000 works by more than 600 artists was started on a shoestring by the indomitable David Barnett, who now, at the age of 91, is still the driving force behind this laudable enterprise.
