Earlier this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington announced it had made history – it bought a painting by a Native American artist for the very first time.
The gallery purchased I See Red: Target, a 1992 piece by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a response to the colonization of America by Christopher Columbus.
by Terry Border
by Czech painter Viktor Oliva
Boston’s Apollo, Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, was meant to examine a contradiction of race and visibility. Its intended run, from 13 February to 17 May, was curtailed by the coronavirus outbreak. Fortunately, we are left with a handsome and well-illustrated catalog from Yale University Press.
Mexican artist Ernesto García “El Chango” Cabral (1890 – 1968)
Illustration from “Les Vies des dames galantes” (Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies) written by Pierre de Bourdeille, aka Abbé de Brantôme (1540-1614), illustrated by French artist Paul-Émille Bécat (1885-1960)
