Nationalmuseum has purchased a previously unknown artwork by the Italian Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana. Fontana was one of the most successful Italian painters working in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and is considered one of the first professional woman painters. The painting is an altarpiece depicting the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
London offers countless museums and galleries, but few artistic experiences leave a lasting impression quite like standing in front of an original Claude Monet painting.
In an age saturated by images, Quentin James McCaffrey’s paintings propose a slower and a more contemplative mode of attention. Through carefully constructed interiors, architectural fragments and charged arrangements of objects, his practice investigates the relationship between perception, memory and imagination.
Walk into a contemporary gallery today and you may find yourself doing something that would have seemed rather strange a century ago: standing in front of a screen and waiting for the artwork to do something.
China withdraws its artists from the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea on Friday after organizers approved the name “Taiwan Pavilion."