It is the result of “kismet—and a little bit of planning” that the Menil Collection in Houston will open its new $40m home for its Drawing Institute with a solo show of Jasper Johns and release its ...

An exclusive preview of a unique show devoted to the lost art of metalpoint reveals works as beautiful as they are technically exacting Rembrandt is in love with the girl in the portrait – and she ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) HOUSTON — After six years in the making and $40 million in investment, the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) building ...

The British Museum’s exhibition of some 100 drawings in silverpoint and, more rarely, goldpoint, begins with a juxtaposition of hands. A pair, gracefully poised though unnaturally flexed, by the ...

Often called the greatest living American artist, Jasper Johns is as blue chip as an artist can be. His work is in the collection of most major modern and contemporary museums globally. The Dallas ...

Drawings—whether quick preparatory sketches or highly finished works—have long been undervalued compared to oil paintings, which grab the headlines and the highest prices. But the lines and textures ...