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29 January, 2026

Congratulations to Carla Grace, for winning People’s Choice Award! “ ‘Pride’ is an oil painting created on linen in collaboration with the Kevin Richardson Foundation. During a trip to South Africa, C ...

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The mid-1800s in France was a tumultuous era that witnessed dramatic political, social, and cultural change. The impact of those transformations on the art of the period has often been measured by the ...

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20 January, 2026

For the first time in history, see all nine of Jan van Eyck’s portraits together.  Portraiture as we know it begins with van Eyck. His vision and skill launched painting into a new era of un ...

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Tracing the trials and tribulations of the legendary Medici dynasty and their influence, power, and patronage over the Italian Renaissance, this evocative exhibition arrives in the United States for t ...

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16 January, 2026

The MEAM presents a new edition of REALISM 26. Figure and Time, an international exhibition celebrating the strength and vitality of contemporary figurative realism. Painting and sculpture come t ...

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Inspired by breakthroughs in industry and technology, visual culture in the final quarter of the 19th century in France expanded well beyond the traditional media of painting, sculpture, and drawing t ...

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Devoted to Frida Kahlo’s life and legacy, Frida: The Making of an Icon premieres at the MFAH in January 2026. This monumental exhibition features more than 30 works by the legendary Mexican artist and ...

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9 January, 2026

This is a portrait drawing workshop where the student will learn the way Masters of the Renaissance and Baroque used to draw when pencils didn't exist yet. With 3 crayons, you can create some of the m ...

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This display celebrates the recent acquisition by the British Museum of two rare 17th-century drawings by prominent English portrait painters Samuel Cooper (1609–72) and Richard Gibson (1615 ...

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2 Week Intensive - July 6-17, 2026 In this workshop, students will work from a live model and draw inspiration from the great sculptural masterpieces of Rome. Over a two week period, each participant ...

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The Art Renewal Center® is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 18th International ARC Salon Competition. For the first seven days that the results are live on the ARC website, from Jan ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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