Eye miniatures from the Nelson-Atkins’ collection. Courtesy Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York …
Shepard Fairey, HOPE (Barack Obama), (2008). Courtesy Heritage Auctions, HA.com In the early months of 2008, street artist Shepard Fairey created what would become a defining image of Barack Obama’s …
Graham Sutherland’s 1954 study of Winston Churchill. Courtesy Sotheby’s For his 80th birthday in 1954, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill received more than 150,000 gifts from around the globe. One …
‘Miss Elsie Palmer,’ 1889-90 and two House of Worth dresses. Photo © Tate (Jai Monaghan) “The drawing is bad, the color atrocious, the artistic ideal low,” raged art critic Louis …
Her show at White Cube Hong Kong, called “Here On Earth”, includes a new series of dramatic images featuring a dominant palette of what Giovanelli calls “sickly” green that are …