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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presented a selection of prints by William Hogarth, a celebrated English satirist. William Hogarth: Proceed with Caution , on view October 6, 2012 – January 13, 2013, brought together a selection of the artist’s most important eighteenth-century series including Marriage à la Mode,  A Rake’s Progress,  and Industry and Idleness. In this exceptional display representing the breadth and dynamism of the artist’s oeuvre, the exhibition imparts a broad understanding of Hogarth’s overarching messages. William Hogarth (1697-1764) stood at the center of a rich tradition of political and social satire in the first half of eighteenth-century England. Inspired by a period of economic turmoil and social unrest, Hogarth’s exquisitely detailed etchings and engravings function as cautionary tales for his fellow Londoners. His multi-layered, visual narratives unravel stories of virtue and vice; they highlight integrity and merit a...

Thirteen early to mid-century American artists who forged distinctly modern styles are the subjects of American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe , through Oct 19, 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Drawing from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the year-long show features iconic as well as lesser known works by Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Burgoyne Diller, William Eggleston, Morris Graves, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Jacob Lawrence, Roy Lichtenstein, Elie Nadelman, Alice Neel, and Georgia O’Keeffe. One. Curator Barbara Haskell has organized the museum’s holdings of each of these artists’ work into small-scale retrospectives. Many of the works included will be on view for the first time in years; others, such as Hopper’s A Woman in the Sun, Calder’s Circus, Jacob Lawrence’s War Series, and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Summer Days, are cornerstones of the Whitney’s collection. For aspiring young painters and sculptors in America, traveling to Europe and assimilating...

Cast Your Vote Illustrations are not to scale. Click each illustration to view an enlarged version of the artwork. Cast your votes below. Look at each piece carefully and choose your  10 favorite pieces of art. Then come back tomorrow and vote again, and again. Every person gets up to 10 votes every day through May 7, 2014. Once tallied, your votes will inform the final selection of 50 works featured as the Art Everywhere US campaign for the entire month of August 2014. Today I voted for 10 more masterpieces. Here are some of the ones I voted for: Watson and the Shark, 1778 John Singleton Copley National Gallery of Art The Icebergs, 1861 Frederic Edwin Church Dallas Museum of Art     Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862 James McNeill Whistler National Gallery of Art Noontide in Late May, 1917 Charles Burchfield Whitney Museum of American Art   Razor, 1924 Gerald Murphy Dallas Museum of Art Early Sunday Morning, 1930 Edward Hopper W...