Aug 12 Watch 8:12 Another look at N.C. Wyeth, American art patriarch By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport N.C. Wyeth, who led a multi-generational family of American art royalty and inspired “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, gets a new look in an exhibition of his illustrations and paintings. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
May 10 Watch 8:28 For the first time ever, ‘All the Rembrandts’ are on display in Amsterdam By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe, Lorna Baldwin An extraordinary new exhibition in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum marks the first time the museum’s entire collection of Rembrandts is available to the public. Titled “All the Rembrandts,” the show commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Dutch master’s death and sheds new… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch 6:10 The Met’s ‘Delacroix’ exhibit shows the artist in full “Delacroix,” a retrospective of the 19th century French painter Eugène Delacroix, is a blockbuster show running this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An ambitious Romantic, Delacroix is known for such paintings as “Women of Algiers” and is considered… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch 6:21 One painter on why understanding art is as simple as looking By PBS NewsHour What do we see when we look at art? Many of us aren't sure what we're supposed to absorb. For artist David Salle, reading a painting should be natural, not intimidating. He believes that museum-goers should enjoy the act of… Continue watching
Feb 12 Exiled Syrian artist Tammam Azzam paints haunting images of his destroyed homeland By Corinne Segal After completing "Storeys," a large-scale abstract painting project based on photographs from Syrian cities, Tammam Azzam has seen enough: buildings gutted by bombs, empty streets, a sense of stillness. Continue reading
Nov 05 NewsHour fans take the #BobRossChallenge and the results are priceless By Laura Santhanam Two decades after his death, Bob Ross is still inspiring people to paint happy trees. Continue reading
Oct 27 This artist turns mathematical concepts into intricate paintings By Twin Cities PBS Artist Emily Lynch works for a math publishing company in Minneapolis, training teachers to use materials that are created for visually-oriented students. She also creates paintings based on number systems. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch 8:00 Decades after Florence’s great flood, an art hospital renews still-damaged treasures By PBS NewsHour, Frank Carlson It's part museum, part workshop, part hospital for threatened treasures. At the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy, conservators work to restore cultural and artistic masterpieces, some of which still bear the damage of a devastating flood nearly 50… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch 3:33 Boston art exhibit captures dynamic Dutch society in changing times A new art exhibit is being heralded as the first show ever to look at the Dutch masterworks for how the painters viewed society. The exhibit, “Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer," recently opened at… Continue watching
Sep 27 ‘I love the adventure’: How painter Alex Katz finds inspiration for his bold works By Phil Hirschkorn At 88, painter Alex Katz is not slowing down. Working from small studies to produce large canvasses, watch as Katz turns a 15x11-feet white canvass into a green, brown, and white depiction of trees, titled "Cross Light 3."… Continue reading