What an intimate and truthful portrait by John Wilson of his brother, painted in 1942. On display at the great exhibition 'Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Es ist offiziell: Die Romantikforschung an der @uni-jena.de wird in Form eines Zentrums institutionalisiert; im November wird es eröffnet. Unter anderem wird Kunsthistorikerin und Fellow Cordula Grewe einen Vortrag zu arabeskem Denken und Gestalten halten. Weitere Infos: romantik-zentrum.uni-jena.de

What an intimate and truthful portrait by John Wilson of his brother, painted in 1942. On display at the great exhibition 'Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

„Museums are places to hang out“: Mary Heilmann’s installation "Long Line" at the Whitney Museum, which faces the Hudson River and the surrounding cityscape, invites visitors to do exactly that.

„Museums are places to hang out“: Mary Heilmann’s installation "Long Line" at the Whitney Museum, which faces the Hudson River and the surrounding cityscape, invites visitors to do exactly that.

Swimming with Thoreau. #WaldenPond

An early curly shag by Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of Elizabeth Martha Collick Hatchett painted c. 1786. On view at the recently reopened Frick Collection.

I can't wait for this!

I can't wait for this!

Swimming with Thoreau. #WaldenPond

Mannahatta.

Mannahatta.

Was hat ein Gemälde, das ein fröhliches Picknick zeigt mit sozialen Fragen am Übergang der Neuzeit zur Moderne zu tun? Elisabeth Fritz, stellvertretende Direktorin am DFK Paris, untersucht, wie man Bilder der Geselligkeit als Bilder von Gesellschaft verstehen kann. 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Greifswald, jetzt.

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

Re-Joycing in Trieste.

Now on the BARS Blog: CFP for Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies See all info/how to submit here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6098 Please share far and wide!

Triest, jetzt.

Simon Fraser University near Vancouver will open the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum in September – its first purpose-built museum designed to connect art, research and campus life. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/05/n...

Sehenswert: Mit der Ausstellung "European Realities" feiert @chemnitz.de als europäische Kulturhauptstadt 2025 diverse künstlerische Realismusbewegungen im Europa der 1920er und 1930er Jahre. Noch bis 10.08.2025 im Museum Gunzenhauser.

Sehenswert: Mit der Ausstellung "European Realities" feiert @chemnitz.de als europäische Kulturhauptstadt 2025 diverse künstlerische Realismusbewegungen im Europa der 1920er und 1930er Jahre. Noch bis 10.08.2025 im Museum Gunzenhauser.

Im Nebel: Fujiko Nakayas Nebelskulpturen führen an die Grenzen des Sichtbaren und sensibilisieren zugleich für andere Wahrnehmungsebenen, die ein intensives Eintauchen in das Kunstwerk ermöglichen. Noch bis 14.9. in der Neuen Nationalgalerie.

Michael Bies hat während seines Junior-Fellowships am Kolleg an der Kulturgeschichte einer oft unterschätzten Praxis gearbeitet – nun ist sein Essay erschienen: 📘 „Basteln. Kurze Geschichte einer kleinen Tätigkeit“ (ifk lectures & translations)

LArch Archivfund mit (freud'schem?) Tippfehler -- Abschwung Ost

Eröffnung der Diplomausstellung der #HfBK Dresden. Die Diplomausstellung läuft noch bis 27. Juli. Sehenswert vor allem Lisa Liepelts Videoinstallation "Über Unwesen".

Also taking place next week: BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms, 25th July 2025, 3pm-6.15 BST. Links to follow in an email to BARS Members. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ Programme – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST) www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052 Links to follow on Monday 21 July - keep an eye on emails!

Abstract Expressionist painters Joan, Helen & Grace, (Mitchell, Frankenthaler & Hartigan), 1957 #womensart #FridayFeeling

English painter Joshua Reynolds was born #OnThisDay in 1723 🖌️ Ben Pollitt looks at depictions of Britain's first Polynesian visitor, Mai, whose portrait by the artist was purchased by National Portrait Gallery in 2023. Have a read 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 📷 National Portrait Gallery

Austen & Turner at Harewood House: What a wonderful encounter and also a reminder that this year, we not only celebrate J. M. W. Turner's 250th anniversary but also that of the great Jane Austen. #Turner250 #Austen250 For more on this year's Turnercraze see: www.turnersociety.com/turner-250/

Diese Entscheidung macht wütend. Nicht rechtzeitig abgemahnt? Wusste der Mann nicht, dass er nicht seine Machtposition ausnutzen darf um sexualisierte Gewalt auszuüben? An so vielen Stellen katastrophal. Geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt wird hingenommen, was sonst.

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.” - US artist Carrie Mae Weems #womensart

Irish Unity: For? Against? Both. Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride explore both sides of the Irish unity debate with intellectual depth and balance. 📆 Out 20th October 📚Preorder now bit.ly/4ei6x3I 🎤 National Concert Hall & Lyric Theatre Belfast to come @fotoole.bsky.social @sjamcbride.bsky.social

Scholars and art lovers from across Ireland, Europe, and the U.S. gathered in Belfast last month for a conference honoring the late S.B. Kennedy — a longtime curator at the @ulstermuseum.org and an art historian who authored the seminal work “Irish Art and Modernism, 1880-1950.” 🧵 (1/2)

Printmaking has been vital to both the creation of art and women's activism. Barbara Kruger's “Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground), 1989, silkscreen #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

München, jetzt.

Looking foward to sharing my ideas on clouds, climate & art at the intriguing conference "Watercolour and Weather" held at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne from 4 unti 6 June. www.unige.ch/watercoloura...

Looking foward to sharing my ideas on clouds, climate & art at the intriguing conference "Watercolour and Weather" held at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne from 4 unti 6 June. www.unige.ch/watercoloura...

Lausanne jetzt.

📚Great Friday read: The 2025 Huntington Library exhibition catalogue on Ruskin's 1884 'Storm Cloud' and the visual origins of climate change. In preparation for my next paper on watercolour & weather.

What a pleasure it was to take part in this exciting conference on "New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism: S.B. Kennedy Conference" in Belfast and to get to know great colleagues and projects. @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

What a pleasure it was to take part in this exciting conference on "New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism: S.B. Kennedy Conference" in Belfast and to get to know great colleagues and projects. @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

“New Histories of Irish Art in Modernism: A Conference in Honor of S.B. Kennedy” is underway in Belfast! ▶️ go.nd.edu/kennedy @niamhroisin.bsky.social @michaelwaldron.bsky.social @annemillarstewart.bsky.social @billyshortall.bsky.social @elisabethansel.bsky.social @drartypants.bsky.social

I am looking forward to talking about Irish Modernism in Germany at the conference on 'New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism' which takes place at the Queen's University & the Ulster Museum in Belfast on 22 & 23 May. irishstudies.nd.edu/events/sb-ke...

Belfast jetzt.

Wien jetzt.

NEW ACQUISITION! Hartford-born Frederic Church’s oil on paper study of a meteor procession seen over the skies of Catskill, NY in July 1860 — the finest Church in private hands and now at The Wadsworth • Frederic Church, ‘The Meteor,’ 1860, oil on paper, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Irish Modernism in Germany: Vielen Dank an die #KunsthalleBielefeld für den Katalog "Modern Irish Painting", der 1970 die gleichnamige Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle begleitete - ein rares Fundstück. Mit dabei Künstler*innen wie Norah McGuinness, Patrick Scott & Jack B. Yeats. #IrishModernism