Maria Lassnig, “Selbstporträt / Abstrakter Kopf” (“Self-Portrait / Abstract Head”) (1956), oil on canvas (courtesy of the artist) Maria Lassnig’s retrospective at MoMA PS1 is the largest survey of her ...

A new work of art is in progress for Princeton’s collections, and 25 students — and their skin tones — are representing the campus community in the abstract collection of portraits called “Synecdoche.

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...