The 18th-century painter was a key practitioner of "capriccio" artworks, which blended scenes of everyday life with bold, out ...

Lincoln Seligman's eighteenth-century Cotswolds barn is a home shaped as much by restraint as by creativity. Rather than reinventing its remarkable architecture, he has carefully layered it with ...

The Yale University Art Gallery makes a clever move in their “Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England” exhibit by providing a brilliant contrast with modern American painting in the same style ...

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history. By Walker Mimms Which truths ...

What’s the opposite of a white cube exhibition? Touch Jamaica, Rejin Leys’s show of paper sculptures set among the period props of a historic home, feels pretty close. The Queens-based ...

An 18th-century gallerist is showing an aristocratic client a painting that hangs in a stately home. ‘This is by Lodovico Cardi, a disciple of Alessandro Allori,’ he announces, standing in front of a ...

Often, when I see that a book comes directly out of a dissertation, there’s a sinking feeling that it may be arcane and academic in the extreme. The kind of book that’s filled with jargon and overly ...

This review of A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France by Oliver Wunsch (Penn State University Press) appears in the September 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and ...

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One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink ...

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