A political battle between Japan and South Korea has spilled into the art world, with the abrupt closing of an exhibit with a statue symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery.
Tag: Art
Storied Russian Miniatures Dwindling in Face of Icon Revival
Russian miniatures — boxes painted with elaborate fairy tales — once replaced the holy icons banned by the Soviets, but now history is reversing itself.
What Leonardo da Vinci Couldn’t Finish
“Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness” at the Met Museum is a masterpiece in progress from a perfectionist who hated to say “done.”
Imagining the Moon
The moon in art has changed from symbol to something real, but that hasn’t changed our will to see it.
Imagining the Moon
The moon in art has changed from symbol to something real, but that hasn’t changed our will to see it.
Someone Used a Chain Saw to Make a Melania Trump Statue. Few Were Impressed.
An American artist commissioned a wood carver to create “the first monument to Melania” in her native Slovenia. But some residents were bewildered.
For Artist at Auschwitz, a Challenge: Stepping Into the Past, Not on It
The Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind was asked to design an exhibit at the death camp site about faith, and to engage without distracting.
Botched Statue of St. George Is ‘Unrestored’ to Its Dignity
Specialists in Spain spent $34,000 to fix a church statue that had ended up looking like Tintin after a paint job.
Pointed Painted Valentines to the Soviet Era
In her first American solo exhibition, Zoya Cherkassky’s commentary on her childhood in Ukraine is rich and complex.
He Couldn’t Talk About What He Saw in World War II. So He Painted It.
The aristocrat-turned-commando Guy de Montlaur was a hero of the French liberation. His paintings of D-Day depict scenes that haunted him his entire life.