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The article previews the art exhibition "Picasso and Paper," scheduled to be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio through August 23, 2020.

A biography of American modernist painter and printmaker Will Barnet is presented. Topics covered include his family and educational background, the phases of his art production over an 80-year career, and his diverse painting styles which include some that recall folk art and ancient Egypt, and some which he referred to as hieroglyphic art, in which the figures are also abstraction.

The article previews the exhibition "Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation" scheduled to be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts through August 2, 2020 and then travel to the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Florida in September 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting" on view through Fall 2021 at the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in New York.

The article reviews two Steuben glass art exhibitions at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas, namely "Art of Fire: Frederick Carder and Steuben Glass" and "Catching Light: Selections From the Wichita Art Museum's Burnstein Collection."

A biography of Ethiopian-born artist Wosene Worke Kosrof is presented. Topics covered include his family and educational background, such as being an art student at Howard University in Washington, D.C. after he emigrated to the U.S. in 1978, artists who he considered as influences, such as his fellow Latin American modernist Wifredo Lam, and his painting style which merges the characters used to write Ethiopia's Amharic language with modernist abstraction.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition," which features works of artists such as Hale Woodruff and Henri Matisse, being presented at The Phillips Collection art museum in Washington, D.C. until May 24, 2020.

The article discusses the career and significant contributions of the late American abstract painter Alice Trumbull Mason to American art history. Topics explored include her active participation in the American Abstract Artists (AAA) group, the publication of biography "Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction," edited by Alisa Wouk Almino, and the way she distinguished architectural abstract art from the expressionist art concept.

The article reviews the art exhibition "British Surrealism: 1783-1952," which features works of several artists including Conroy Maddox, Ithell Colquhoun, and Henry Moore, being presented at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England until May 17, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette," which features works of California landscape painter Granville Redmond, being presented at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California until May 17, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "J.M.W. Turner: Quest for the Sublime," which features paintings of British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, being presented at the Ingram Gallery of the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee until May 31, 2020.

The article previews the painting exhibition "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture," to be presented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. from March 20 to August 16, 2020, featuring works by Frederic Edwin Church, Charles Wilson Peale and Albert Bierstadt.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life," which features the futuristic paintings of Italian artist Tullio Crali, being presented at the Estorick Collection museum in London, England until April 11, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Chang Dai-chien: Painting From Heart to Hand," which features works of Chinese painter Chang Dai-chien, being presented at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in California until April 26, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery," being presented at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson until May 19, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Maynard Dixon's American West," which features the American West-focused paintings of artist Maynard Dixon, being presented at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West in Arizona until August 2, 2020.

The article profiles abstract painter Barbara Takenaga. Topics covered include description of the abstract, intricate works of Takenaga such as "Zardo" from 2009 and "Pink" from 2008, how being born and raised in Nebraska influenced Takenaga's artistic vision, and science as source of Takenaga's visual inspirations.

The article reviews the exhibition "Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement," at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut through May 10, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "Henry Arnhold's Porcelain Palace," featuring works from the Meissen porcelain manufactory drawn from the collection of the late Henry H. Arnhold and on display at the Frick Collection in New York.

The article reviews the exhibition "Taking Shape: Abstraction From the Arab World: 1950s-1980s," on view at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University through April 4, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, featuring objects about the Melanesian island culture.

The article previews the exhibition featuring the works of avant-garde artist and author Esphyr Slobodkina at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico from December 27, 2019 to February 15, 2020.

The article previews the abstract painting exhibition "Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed" at The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida from December 15, 2019 to April 26, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art" featuring Orientalist painting by artists like Ludwig Deutsch, and John Frederick Lewis at the British Museum in London, England until January 26, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I" featuring prints, sculptures, and tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum in New York until January 5, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner" at the Neue Galerie in New York until January 13, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces From the Capodimonte Museum" at the Seattle Art Museum in Washington until January 26, 2019.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence" at Hammer Galleries in New York City until January 5, 2020.

The article reviews the art exhibition "I Paint My Reality: Surrealism in Latin America" at the NSU Art Museum at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from November 17, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "Pueblo Dynasties: Master Potters From Matriarchs to Contemporaries" at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, until January 5, 2020.

The article reviews an exhibition devoted to the work of British painter Bridget Riley at the Hayward Gallery in London, England, until January 26, 2019.

The article focuses on artist, art theorist and tribal art expert Wolfgang Paalen. Topics discussed include early life and career, his publication of a journal of art and theory that influenced American abstract artists after World War II, and his passion for collecting Cycladic, Northwest Coast, and Pre-Columbian art. Also mentioned is a Paalen retrospective at the Belvedere in Vienna, Austria on view through January 19, 2020 curated by Andreas Neufert and Franz Smola.

The author focuses on abstract artist Charlotte Park. Topics discussed include her early life and career, her stature as one of the important Abstract Expressionists following a positive review of her 2010 exhibition by "New York Times" art critic Roberta Smith, and on how the work of women artists in the 20th century, particularly in the case of abstract artists of the post-World War II period, has been marginalized or ignored due to sexism.

The article reviews the exhibition "Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden's Profile Series" at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, on view through January 5, 2020,

The article reviews the exhibition "The Renaissance of Etching" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from October 23, 2019 to January 20, 2019, featuring the work of artists from around 1490 to 1560 including Daniel Hopfer, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Cornelis Anthonisz.

The article reviews the exhibition "Symbols & Archetypes: Two Millennia of Recurring Visions in Art" at the Venderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, through December 14, 2019, featuring works by various artists including Edward Emerson Barnard, Jeanne Miles and Claude Cahun.

Discusses the archaeological study of early human settlements in the Amazon in Brazil. Studies done by Anna Curtenius Roosevelt; Discoveries of artifacts such as spear points; Discovery of an advanced mound-building culture on Marajó Island at the mouth of the Amazon River; Topic of stone projectile points known as Clovis points; Belief of Roosevelt that prehistoric women did not always play a submissive role; Relationship of Roosevelt to former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

The article reviews the exhibitions "Félix Vallotton: Painter of disquiet" on view at the Royal Academy in London, England until September 29, 2019 and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York from October 29, 2019 to January 26, 2020 and "Bonnard to Vuillard: The intimate poetry of everyday life--The Nabi collection of Vicki and Roger Sant," on view at the Phillips Collection from October 26, 2019 to January 26, 2020 featuring the paintings by modern artist, Féix Vallotton.

The article profiles Frank Lobdell, an abstract painter who was born in 1921 and died in 2013. Topics discussed include his stint in the U.S. Army, the influence of painter Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting "Guernica" on his interest in art, educational background, the palette of his works, his works reflecting his criticisms of the wars including the "Dance" series of paintings and his black-ink drawings of nude female models.

The article reviews the exhibition "Kay Nielsen's enchanted vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel collection," featuring the watercolors and drawings by Danish-born artist, Kay Nielsen, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston until January 20, 2020.

The article reviews the exhibition "André Masson: une mytholo0gie de l'être et de la nature," featuring paintings by Surrealist artist, André Masson, on view at the Le Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret until October 27, 2019.

The article reviews the exhibition "Eternal light: The sacred stained-glass windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany," featuring the stained glass works by artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, on view at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago, Illinois on September 7, 2019.

The article previews the exhibition "Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance" at the National Gallery in London, England, from June 12th through September 29, 2019.

The article evaluates the Yale University collection of American glass, located at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2019.

The article previews the exhibition "Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art," to be held at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, through June 30, 2019.

The article reviews a retrospective exhibition to be held at the Tate Modern gallery in London, England, titled "Dorothea Tanning" through June 9, 2019.

The article explores the life and work of the abstract painter Carl Holty. He worked from the 1930s until his death in 1973. Other topics discussed include how he was held in high regard by his peers but not recognized by the art world during his life, how he was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and how that compared to his time spent in New York City and insights on his artistic techniques.

The article reviews the photography exhibition "Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing," featuring works of photographer Dorothea Lange, being presented at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee until May 27, 2019.

The article discusses photography and accomplishments of American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Topics explored include his selection of themes and subjects for his black-and-white prints, the publication of the book "Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Stages of Being," edited by Stuart Horodner, and the symbolism of masks which may be observed in his photographs.

The article reviews the art exhibition "The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East," being presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City until June 23, 2019.