Posts for August, 2025

ARC Living Master Joke Frima is holding an open house at Place St Christophe 22, Chateau Chinon, France from August 29 - 31, 2025.

The open house days will coincide with the last days of the Académie du Morvan exhibition at the Centre Cultutelle Condorcet, also in Château Chinon, where four major works by Joke Frima are also on display.

Opening hours are from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

To learn more about Joke Frima's work, click here.

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One of the most compelling figures in the history of British art and poetry, William Blake (1757–1827) expressed his radical perspectives on religious belief, politics, and society through highly original illuminated books, watercolors, paintings, and poetry. This exhibition showcases the Yale Center for British Art’s impressive collection of works by Blake, with special focus on the inventive hand-printed publications that bring to life his poetry and prophecies.

The exhibition runs from August 26 – November 30, 2025 at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

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The Guild of Boston Artists is proud to present this year's New England Regional Juried Exhibition at 162 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 from August 30 - September 27. Each year, the exhibition provides a significant opportunity for talented New England artists working in the realist tradition to exhibit their work and compete for prestigious awards. Bringing together the work of promising students, emerging and early career artists, as well as pieces from established professionals, the show is a celebration of the wealth of skill and breadth of vision in representational art across the region.

Opening Reception & Awards Presentation — Saturday, August 30th, 3-5pm.  Awards will be presented around 4pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Award Winners Panel — September 20th, 2pm.  An afternoon meet-and-greet with this year's New England Regional Juried Exhibition Award Winners. Each artist will discuss their award-winning painting and take questions from the audience.

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Image Shown: Lyasya Sinkovski, Gone Fishing Oil, 16x16"

A range of incredible Victorian treasures are on show at Leighton House this summer, combining two very different - but equally important – collections and showcasing unseen works.  

Victorian Treasures from the Cecil French Bequest showcases a curated selection of 21 paintings by Victorian masters from the extraordinary collection of artist and collector Cecil French which was bequeathed to the public after his death. 

French’s oil painting collection will be juxtaposed with a collection of works on paper from the same period but acquired much later. Art historian Scott Thomas Buckle began collecting artworks in the 1980s, with a particular interest in 19th century British drawings and the models that featured in prominent works by Pre-Raphaelites and artists of the Aesthetic movement. 

The collection encompasses a variety of techniques and styles employed by the Victorians and explores how their drawing practice relates to their wider body of work, establishing a dialogue with paintings in the museum’s own collection and in the Cecil French display.

Highlights include drawings by leading artists of the period, such as John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and many will be unveiled for the first time for public enjoyment and shown in the Tavalozza Drawings Gallery.

The exhibition runs from May 15 – September 21, 2025 at the Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, London, W14 8LZ, United Kingdom.

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This is the first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to Rachel Ruysch. It brings together 35 of her finest paintings from museums and private lenders across the United States and Europe alongside plant and insect specimens as well as work by other female artists, including Anna Ruysch, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Alida Withoos. Seeing these provocative juxtapositions, visitors can gain insight into the central role women played in the production of scientific knowledge in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.

As global trade routes expanded in the 17th century, thousands of new plant specimens arrived in the Netherlands for cultivation in greenhouses and botanical gardens. Ruysch was among the first artists to introduce new species, from passionflowers to cacti, into her flower still lifes. Merging art and science, these paintings are far from just decorative; they’re riddles, hints of a deeper understanding of the natural world.

The exhibition takes place at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, from August 23 – December 7, 2025.

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Join ARC Living Master™ Mary Pettis for a 5-day / 5-night artist retreat like no other! Imagine deepening your connection to Nature through oil painting, surrounded by the awe-inspiring giant redwoods and the dramatic Pacific coastline. Now, envision doing all this while indulging in unparalleled luxury accommodations and savoring gourmet cuisine. This exceptional retreat is designed just for you

No matter your experience level, you’ll expand your technical mastery, learn to distill your artistic vision, and create vibrant, evocative paintings. Each day, Mary provides hands-on guidance through live demonstrations, one-on-one instruction, thoughtful critiques, and inspiring plein air excursions across the breathtaking grounds of The Inn at Newport Ranch. 

Dates: October 18-23, 2025

To Register: 707-962-4818

Email: innkeeper@theinnatnewportranch.com

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Join classical realist painter and renowned author Juliette Aristides for a free live online event exploring what it truly means to see like an artist. In this 45-minute session, you will be able to ask questions about art and education. Juliette will share her thoughts on cultivating deeper visual awareness, interpreting the visual world with purpose, and creating meaningful, timeless work in an age of distraction. The session includes a live Q&A and the chance to win a copy of her newest book, The Inner Life of the Artist. Hosted by Terracotta, this is a rare opportunity to hear from one of today’s leading voices in classical art. Open to artists and art-lovers alike.

The event takes place on Monday, August 18th, 2025, 1:00 pm EST.

To learn more, visit https://terracotta.art/workshop/seeing-like-an-artist-a-conversation-about-observation-and-art-in-our-time

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The 'Age of Enlightenment' (and of reforms) is narrated through some 150 works set up in the ground floor rooms of the Gallery, with masterpieces by Goya, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Vigée Le Brun, Liotard, and Mengs: many never seen before, others hidden for over a decade due to the work to extend the exhibition route.

The aim of the exhibition is to recount, through art, an era of crucial changes for Western thought, aesthetics, and taste, and also for the Uffizi itself, which, in the 18th century, was completely transformed from a dynastic treasure chest of royal collections into a modern museum, the first in the world.

Running form May 28 – November 28, 2025, the exhbition takes place at the Uffizi Gallery, Piazzale degli Uffizi 6, Florence, 50122 Italy.

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This exhibition focuses on three key works by the Dutch Baroque painter Pieter Claesz (c. 1597/98–1660), who is considered one of most important still life painters of the seventeenth century.  The atmospherically rich still lifes by Pieter Claesz will be on display together, showcasing his masterful use of light and his refined handling of materiality.

The presentation is complemented by high-resolution digital reproductions accessible via an interactive multimedia table, that allows direct engagement with the artworks and deeper insights into the visual language of the Baroque during the so-called Dutch Golden Age. The exhibition is accompanied by several short films that delve further into the still-life genre, the historical context, and the life and work of Pieter Claesz.

The exhibit runs until March 15, 2026 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Maria-Theresien- Platz, Vienna, 1010 Austria.

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Marking the 150th anniversary of his death, this is an opportunity to see some of Millet’s best-loved paintings and drawings. 

Born into a farming family in Normandy, Millet moved to the village of Barbizon in 1849 where he put the people who spent their life working on the land, often the poorest of the poor in 19th-century France, at the heart of his work. He knew these people and his realistic, unsentimental approach to painting them was completely new. 

Taking place at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Sq, London, UK, the exhibition runs from August 7 – October 25, 2025.

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Artistic invention and adventurous experimentation characterized the art of Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Fueled by the rediscovery of ancient Roman sculpture, and by a drive to recapture and compete with its grace, balance, and energy, artists experimented boldly with style and composition. 

Visitors can explore nearly 70 etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and drawings from a period of Italian, Dutch, and Netherlandish printmaking at its most adept and sophisticated.

The exhibition runs from July 17, 2025 – April 13, 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115.

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