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Early cave paintings focused on subjects such as humans and animals. Artists used their fingers as brushes or made tools from stone, animal bones, and blow pipes.

The Painting of Humanity: The Ways in Which Art Defines Points in Time

Sam Chin, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
Yoshitomo Nara’s pieces were featured at the 2021 Christie’s Hong Kong Auction preview. It showcased styles of the Superflat movement, including flat coloring and lack of depth.

Yoshitomo Nara: Big-Headed Children Telling a Story

Katelyn Chiao , Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
The Red Studio is the focal point of the MoMA exhibition.

Rags to Riches: Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’ at the MoMA

Sela Emery, Staff Reporter
September 8, 2022
Ai Weiwei structured 886 antiquated stools in a rhizomatic network, each stool representing a Chinese family whose traditions are somewhat lost in today’s evolving society. “Wooden stools are something so conventional in the context of Chinese culture that you wouldn’t expect them to be used in such an artistic form. In that sense, it becomes unconventional,” said Michele Wu ’24.

Ai Weiwei: The Most Powerful Artist in the World

Charlotte Zhou, Staff Reporter
April 27, 2022
The exhibit Confabulations of Millennia at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, curated by Richard Saja, included work from numerous contemporary artists whose art incorporates styles and techniques from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

The Unseen Art of Gallery Design

Nora Sissenich, Staff Reporter
March 16, 2022
Jasper Johns According to What utilizes a broad color scheme — one that strays from the exhibit’s chromatic fundamentals.

Jasper Johns’s ‘Mind/Mirror’ Exhibit Tells a Star-Spangled Story

Sela Emery, Staff Reporter
February 4, 2022
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