Art & Object

I was born and raised in Dallas. My mother was a very entrepreneurial person who pursued the home-building industry. In the 1950s, a wife in Texas had to have her husband sign all legal documents for her to conduct business. My mother thought that was ridiculous, so she pursued the issue in the Texas courts and got the laws changed. It was through my mother that I was introduced to fine art.

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, between 1520 and 1523. License Historic paintings have passionate admirers, and any attempt to restore a work to its original state is met with a combination of fear and resistance, as well as an obsessive fascination with the process. Given the level of public concern, preservationists move with great caution.

A painting within Chehel Sotoun Palace in Isfahan. License. Airstrikes in early March aimed at a governor’s building in Isfahan reverberated outward to shatter everything from windows to decorative wall tiles in Naqsh-e Jahan Square and Chehel Sotoun Palace. To the west, an 1800-year-old fortress in the Khorramabad Valley, near prehistoric caves settled by early humans as they dispersed out of Africa, was damaged.

James Gillray, A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique (1801), hand-colored etching. Historically, the term “connoisseur” labeled a particular type of devotee with finely tuned senses. In his 1719 text “Two Discourses,” the portrait painter and essayist Jonathan Richardson defined the three key aims of the connoisseur.

Ed Moses, Redyps, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 96" x 60". Santa Monica, CA — William Turner Gallery is pleased to present Moses @ 100, an exhibition of works by Ed Moses marking the centennial year of the artist’s birth. Opening Saturday, July 11 from 5–8 PM and on view through September 5, 2026, the exhibition brings together a focused selection of works that underscore the restless experimentation and continual reinvention that defined Moses’ practice for more than six decades. Event Information

Ed Moses, Cat-Who A-1, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 78" x 66". Moses @ 100 offers an opportunity to reconsider the enduring relevance of a practice rooted in experimentation, intuition, and constant renewal. At a moment when contemporary painting continues to grapple with questions of process, authorship, and materiality, Moses’ work remains strikingly relevant: a testament to an artist who never stopped searching. Born in Long Beach in 1926, Moses did not initially set out to become an artist.

One of Dalí’s earliest Surrealist paintings, it was inspired by the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Giorgio de Chirico and Dalí is said to have mined his own psychological conflicts and phobias for artistic inspiration. The painting is an excellent example of Dalí’s obsession with juxtaposing hard and soft qualities such as the sharply rendered cliffs of the Catalonian coast contrasted with the softly oozing clocks.

Olin B. West, Deduction Mandala #2. JUL 11,2026 ​Opening Reception ​6-9pm During Second Saturday Art Hop The RGee Trio will be providing music, a mixture of pop and rock classics shaped with light jazz style Being an artist is a lifestyle, the product of that lifestyle: the Art, is a way of sharing that experience with others. My works are a sincere effort to share visual, intellectual and emotional points of view, using sight to stimulate the fomulation philosophical ideas...Olin B.

Olin B. West, Deduction Mandala #2. RioBravoFineArt proudly presents a showing of work from the Timescapes series of paintings by Olin B. West, one of the Southwest’s most respected and talented artists. The show opens on July 11, 2026, Second Saturday Art Hop in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and continues through August 28, 2026. Olin B. West, Untitled 3, 40 x 40", oil on canvas. West was born in Paris, Texas, but his roots are deep in the American West and Southwest.

The museum at the Obama Presidential Center on opening day, 2026. License. Leadership is likewise careful to position the center as something more community-inclusive than as a stuffy presidential library. An NBA-sized basketball court, gardens, and open lawns invite the surrounding neighborhoods to convene on the sprawling campus. Scattered throughout it are 28 commissioned art installations.