The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled the first renderings of its upcoming $550-million renovation for the modern and contemporary art wing. Designed by Frida Escobedo, the first female architect to design a wing in the museum’s 154-year history, the project will span 126,000 square…
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For those unable to visit Tokyo National Museum to see Iwasa Matabei’s iconic 17th-century gold leaf painting Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu, the Gagosian gallery in London offers a captivating alternative this December. Takashi Murakami, one of Japan’s most celebrated post-war artists, has unveiled a large-scale replica that adds…
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Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only admire painted scenes and characters but will also have the unique opportunity to smell them. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” currently on display at the University of Birmingham’s Barber Institute of Fine Arts, highlights paintings from…
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