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18 December, 2025
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other – Turner in 1775, Constable in 1776 – the ar ...
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16 December, 2025
The Figure Society was founded on January 1, 2025, by ARC Living Master Shane Wolf. Given that no artistic organization exists that focuses solely on this long-standing artform, The Figure Society fir ...
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17 December, 2025
In the early years of the United States, artists and explorers used watercolor for mapping and documenting the landscape. By the 19th century, American painters began capturing their country in larger ...
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8 December, 2025
Howard L. Rehs, President of Rehs Galleries, Inc., and one of the most respected authorities on 19th- and early 20th-century French academic art, passed away on November 19, 2025, at the age of 66 fol ...
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5 December, 2025
A stunning example of Gilded Age patronage, Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway of 1873, has been in private British collections since it was commissioned the ...
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5 December, 2025
John Hafen believed in the power of art to uplift and elevate lives and communities. Despite constant hardships, Hafen dedicated his life to his personal mission of art, faith, and beauty.
This is the ...
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4 December, 2025
Discover the artwork of the wonderful students of The Académie des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (ACADEM)!
Since its founding in 2014, ACADEM has become a cornerstone of figurative art education in Cana ...
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2 December, 2025
The Figure Society was founded on January 1, 2025, by ARC Living Master Shane Wolf. Given that no artistic organization exists that focuses solely on this long-standing artform, The Figure Society fir ...
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3 December, 2025
Congratulations to ARC Living Master Jon Bøe Paulsen for winning First Place Overall in the 15th Annual “Open” Online Art Exhibition for Light Space & Time for his work “The Blue Hour”.
The galler ...
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21 November, 2025
American sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall has spent years building a collection of plaster casts with the goal of making them available and affordable to students, artists, and lovers of art and art histo ...
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19 November, 2025
The Figure Society was founded on January 1, 2025, by ARC Living Master Shane Wolf. Given that no artistic organization exists that focuses solely on this long-standing artform, The Figure Society fir ...
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20 November, 2025
ARC Associate Living Master, French artist Laurence Saunois will present Nympheus Luminansis, les nymphéas de la lumière (Nympheus Luminansis, Water Lilies of Light) in Figeac, France. The result of e ...
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19 November, 2025
Join the Hudson River Fellowship at Salmagundi Club for a night filled with landscape paintings and inspired conversation with art lovers and the artists themselves. Enjoy a glass of wine an ...
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19 November, 2025
An exhibition of oil paintings by ARC Associate Living Master Urban Larsson will be on view at Skajs Antikhandel. Since the last exhibition in the autumn of 2022, Larsson has been working on several p ...
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13 November, 2025
American artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) transformed the medium of watercolor through his relentless spirit of experimentation. His luminous views transport viewers to the rugged Maine coast, the Adi ...
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12 November, 2025
In celebration of his four month residency with Moshava Art Gallery, ARC Associate Living Master Josh Tiessen is holding a solo exhibition featuring an expansive collection of eco-surrealist pain ...
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7 November, 2025
'Wright of Derby: From the Shadows' is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings.
Illuminated faces gather around a variety of objects – from classical ...
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7 November, 2025
While the paintings of Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) have become icons of Impressionism, his drawings, watercolors, and pastels are far less widely known. In fact, drawing remained central to his artisti ...
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6 November, 2025
The Fey Wild, ARC Living Master Patricia Watwood’s solo debut at Equity Gallery, comprises multi-figure narrative oil paintings, large scale drawings and a theatrical forest installation (extending ou ...
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6 November, 2025
The Renaissance period saw a dramatic transformation in the way that artists worked, with a new-found appreciation for creativity pushing artistic boundaries. Drawing became central to this developmen ...
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4 November, 2025
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to announce that we have posted our roster of finalists competing in the 18th International ARC Salon Competition. Approximately 23%, 816 works have been selected as ...
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4 November, 2025
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art presents the first monographic exhibition in forty years of the work of Walter Osborne, one of Ireland’s most-heralded artists. The exhibition charts Osborne’s trajecto ...
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4 November, 2025
The exhibition traces the life of this artist, born in Italy and a Parisian by adoption, who also had a brilliant career in the United States. A highly talented portraitist, he was much sought-after b ...
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23 October, 2025
The Figure Society was founded on January 1, 2025, by ARC Living Master Shane Wolf. Given that no artistic organization exists that focuses solely on this long-standing artform, The Figure Society fir ...
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23 October, 2025
Learn how to create reference images for your artwork in a creative and fun atmosphere! This Halloween, get ready to become your own director. We invite you to dress up to participate in original scen ...
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23 October, 2025
For this exhibition, five teenagers from public high schools in the Boston area collaborated with the MFA’s Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) to explore death and decay. The works on view c ...
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22 October, 2025
During the 19th century, advancements in industry, science, and technology changed how people thought about and dealt with death. In response, some European artists reimagined a motif known as the dan ...
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20 October, 2025
January 5 – July 24, 2026
This course is perfect for aspiring artists who are time-constrained or on a budget but still wish to receive high-quality training in classical painting and constructive d ...
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16 October, 2025
Symbolism is among the most complex art movements to define. Although it followed on the heels of Impressionism, whose imagery was accessible and bright, Symbolism’s dark and mysterious vocabulary is ...
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14 October, 2025
Considered the father of the French School, revered for breathing new life into painting, David produced imagery that to this day inhabits the collective imagination. From The Death of Marat ...
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13 October, 2025
This week marks the release of John Hafen: Utah’s Poet Painter, a comprehensive biography of the celebrated Utah artist written by father-daughter art historians, Vern G. Swanson and Angela Swanson Jo ...
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8 October, 2025
The Museo MEAM presents one of the most anticipated events in the international art calendar: Figurativas 2025, the exhibition resulting from the international competition of figurative painting ...
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7 October, 2025
The Golden State features artwork from 27 juried artists of the California Art Club. The exhibition offers viewers a journey through California’s varied environs and cultural monuments, highlight ...
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2 October, 2025
This fall, Gallery 1261 revisits the extraordinary terrain of high-definition realism with Tight 2, a follow-up to the landmark exhibition curated by Anthony Waichulis. The artists selected for this s ...
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1 October, 2025
The Kimbell welcomes Caravaggio’s monumental canvas Judith Beheading Holofernes, on loan from the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
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30 September, 2025
Echoes of Yosemite brings together the majestic vision of Yosemite through two lenses: the classic landscapes of 19th century master William Keith (1838-1911) and the vibrant interpretations of c ...
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26 September, 2025
John Singer Sargent was the most famous American artist of his generation and certainly one of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th century. Revered in the United States, he is also famous ...
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25 September, 2025
The American Tonalist Society is presenting a painting exhibition in which reverence for nature is manifest in limitless and lovely shades and majestic glory. This exhibition features the ATS Signatur ...
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18 September, 2025
The Grand Tour – Destination Italy takes viewers back to the 17th and 18th century, when young British aristocrats would set out on a multi-year educational journey across Europe upon completion ...
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18 September, 2025
Experience outstanding submissions by contemporary artists from across the nation and around the world in the 112th Annual Exhibition of the Allied Artists of America. Approximately 100 selected works ...
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16 September, 2025
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to announce that we have posted our roster of semi-finalists competing in the 18th International ARC Salon Competition. Approximately 40%, 1,326 works have been ...
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11 September, 2025
The 2025 ARC Scholarship Competition results have been posted!
For 24 years now, the ARC Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to some of the most talented emerging realist artists in the world an ...
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11 September, 2025
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 ...
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11 September, 2025
In keeping with its public art and allied resiliency programing, NYAE and Equity Gallery present NYC Watershed Art Project, a group exhibition comprising new oil paintings and maps depicting the pictu ...
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9 September, 2025
The roster of semi-finalists for the 18th ARC Salon will be posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
Please be sure to visit the ARC website to see the results! ...
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10 September, 2025
ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt has been awarded first place at The International FiKVA Award for painters 2025 and the Boynes Monthly Art Award for July 2025 for her painting “In Search of the Lo ...
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3 September, 2025
The results for the 25th ARC Scholarship competition will be posted on Friday, September 12, 2025.
The Art Renewal Center will award $30,000 to talented students attending ARC Approved® schools ...
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29 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 ...
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29 August, 2025
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 orig ...
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28 August, 2025
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 prov ...
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22 August, 2025
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.
Victori ...
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21 August, 2025
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 ...
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15 August, 2025
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, a ...
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14 August, 2025
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. T ...
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8 August, 2025
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 ...
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7 August, 2025
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 recaptu ...
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31 July, 2025
Ten paintings by Antonio Muñoz Degrain will be on display, five of them recently restored, which illustrate the thematic variety, technical skill and aesthetic vision of the Valencian painter. A ...
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30 July, 2025
The unprecedented installation of paintings united in the exhibition Vermeer’s Love Letters pairs the Frick’s Mistress and Maid with special loans of the Rijksmuseum’s Love Le ...
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28 July, 2025
Antoine Watteau (probably 1684–1721) was one of the most influential, prolific artists active in 18th-century France. In a short career lasting little more than a decade, he pushed painting in new dir ...
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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 a ...
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25 July, 2025
Explore the world of animal illustrations at the dawn of European natural history, when scientific discovery and imagination combined. Peek into nearly 40 works from the Library’s rare book collection ...
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The antiquarian and art collector Richard Payne Knight bequeathed over a thousand drawings to the British Museum. The superb quality of his collection transformed the Museum's graphic holdings and est ...
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11 July, 2025
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 ...
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10 July, 2025
Studio Incamminati's accredited Advanced Fine Art Program was founded in 2002 by one of the world’s premier portrait artists, Nelson Shanks (1937-2015). Nelson – “unsurpassed as a practitioner and tea ...
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8 July, 2025
The works of ARC Living Master Richard Whitney, ARC Living Artist Sandy Sherman, and Dennis Morton will be on display and for sale.
Prints, books, and cards will also be for sale.
The stud ...
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7 July, 2025
Between 1400 and 1800, Venice—an astonishing city built on hundreds of small islands off the coast of northeast Italy—stood at the crossroads of a vast trade network connecting Africa, Asia, and Europ ...
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3 July, 2025
ARC Living Artist Robyn Asquini’s work blends figurative realism with expressive abstraction, weaving together fragmented figures with organic forms and textures. This series is especially personal si ...
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3 July, 2025
This unique presentation features watercolors by Emily Sargent (1857–1926), her older brother, renowned portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), and their mother, Mary Newbold Sargent (1826–1906). ...
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1 July, 2025
In Europe, drawing and printmaking had rich interconnected histories evolving from the 15th century—when drawing and printing rose to prominence—to the 19th, when photography and notions of originalit ...
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29 June, 2025
Due to a large number of requests for more time and individuals needing last minute technical assistance, the deadline for the 18th International ARC Salon Competition will be extended until the end o ...
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19 June, 2025
Aug. 4th – 15th Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm
Charcoal into Grisaille (week 1), Form Painting Within the Figure (week 2) Instructors: Stephen Early and Darren Kingsley (teaching alternate days) ...
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Featuring a variety of works spanning the seventeenth to the twentieth century, this installation touches on the theme of city and country. It includes recently acquired Netherlandish landscape drawin ...
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18 June, 2025
The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) is pleased to announce the 97th Grand National Exhibition.
The competition offers over $20,000 in cash awards, plus valuable merchandise & pub ...
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13 June, 2025
Due to a large number of requests for more time and individuals needing last minute technical assistance, the deadline for the 18th International ARC Salon Competition will be extended until the end o ...
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13 June, 2025
On Saturday, June 14, 2025, the state-recognized Academy of Fine Art Germany will open its doors in Bad Homburg. Interested parties will gain exclusive insights into an extraordinary training program ...
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12 June, 2025
Offering over $130,000 in cash awards and career changing opportunities through partnerships with prestigious magazines, museums, galleries and more. Don’t miss your chance to enter the 18th Int ...
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11 June, 2025
Since its 1909 inauguration, the California Art Club has been dedicated to promoting and supporting contemporary-traditional fine art by championing paintings and sculptures featuring representational ...
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11 June, 2025
The International Guild of Realism’s 19th Annual Juried Exhibition will be held at the Sugarman-Peterson Gallery in historic Santa Fe, New Mexico from June 6-30, 2025. The final jury has 99 realism pa ...
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5 June, 2025
The Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon® is the largest Realist Art competition in the world. With over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through the ARC website which rec ...
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5 June, 2025
Bucks County Classical Arts Center proudly announces its 2025 Student Work Show June 4th-June 14th. Artwork was created during the school year from September 2024-May 2025 and includes pencil drawings ...
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5 June, 2025
In 2020, a massive explosion in the port of Beirut devastated the city. Among the wreckage was a previously unknown painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated woman painter of 17th-century ...
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29 May, 2025
ARC Living Master Jon Boe Paulsen will be among the exhibited artists for the Tartget Painting Prize, which is a private initiative for the promotion of art. Their goal is to give visibility to creato ...
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28 May, 2025
“Mystic” is ARC Living Master Katsu Nakajima's first solo exhibition in the Ginza/Hibiya area in 14 years and features more than 35 works, including landscapes, centered around 10 of his latest r ...
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The Friends of Edinburgh Atelier charity organization is proud to offer partial scholarship contributions for aspiring artists seeking to enhance their skills through full-time study at the Edinburgh ...
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23 May, 2025
June 30 - July 25, 2025
Masters of Line offers a unique opportunity to learn and practice copper plate etching at The Florence Academy of Art’s magnificent campus in Florence, Italy.
The ...
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22 May, 2025
Featuring more than 70 works of art in a variety of media, the exhibition explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain. This diverse collection of wat ...
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22 May, 2025
This exhibition explores the artistic lives of nine women artists who lived and worked in Maine in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing primarily from the Farnsworth’s permanent collection, it b ...
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21 May, 2025
The historic grounds of Carlshütte in Schleswig-Holstein, serve as a venue where international art narrates a shared story of our time. NordArt is one of Europe's largest contemporary art exhibitions. ...
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Join OPA in beautiful Bradenton, Florida for the opening of its 34th Annual National Exhibition & Convention. Registered attendees will be eligible to compete in the Wet Paint Competition and vie ...
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15 May, 2025
Experience the wonder of nature through the eyes of artists. Look closely at art depicting insects and other animals alongside real specimens.
Art played a pivotal role during the dawn of European nat ...
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15 May, 2025
This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to delve deeper into the world of Victorian art. By engaging the sense of smell, visitors will gain a new appreciation for the artists' intentions ...
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13 May, 2025
Self-portraiture—an exploration of identity, self-expression, and artistic mastery. Paper/Mirror/Paper brings together the work of FAA alumni, each artist reflecting on their own image on paper. From ...
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12 May, 2025
The Space Gallery is proud to launch its first solo exhibit for one of this era’s leading realist painters, Max Ginsburg. His work speaks to our humanity with honesty and heart. The exhibit will featu ...
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Join Ramiro Sánchez, Painting Director at the Florence Academy of Art, for an unparalleled portrait workshop that blends classical mastery with modern techniques.
Portrait with hands represents the pi ...
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Join Grand Central Atelier on Thursday May 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM at the Salmagundi Club on 5th Avenue in New York, NY, USA. View the best student drawi ...
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8 May, 2025
The third Monacelli Studio title from ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides, The Inner Life of the Artist contains a series of short, insightful essays and significant, meaningful quotes by c ...
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7 May, 2025
ARC is pleased to welcome the newest Aristides Atelier to our ARC Approved® school list.
The Aristides Atelier is a sequential and comprehensive program provided to a small community of aspiring ...
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The Master of Arts in Studio Art at The Florence Academy of Art is uniquely crafted for art educators seeking professional development while advancing their personal artistic skills.
Through flexible, ...
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