Judith Dobrzynski

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Judith Dobrzynski

A show at the Kimbell Art Museum considers a tectonic period in history and explores the way artists including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann and Paul Klee, as well as lesser-known figures, grappled with a rapidly changing world. Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Judith Dobrzynski

An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist in the City of Light. He was only 18 years old in 1874, when he moved with his American expatriate family from Florence to Paris, intent on becoming an artist. It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the most-talked about painter” in the most important nexus of the Western art world, as one critic wrote at the time. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Judith Dobrzynski

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum devotes a show to the American artist, who took ideas from Picasso, Van Gogh and countless others and playfully transformed them into his own compelling canvases. When you look at a painting of parfaits and sundaes by Wayne Thiebaud, do you think of the bottles and vessels lined up in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi? Or view a row of his cupcakes and see Monet’s grain stacks?

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | James Imam |Louis Jebb |Judith Dobrzynski

Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, near Milan. He arrived in Rome around 1592, a young artist hungry for success, and spent the next 14 years of his life there. The city's chaos fuelled both his genius and his troubles. His criminal records tell of brawls, arrests and the murder that forced him into exile. Yet his years in Rome also sparked an artistic revolution.

2 months ago | wsj.com | Judith Dobrzynski

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying the end of the world and inspired by the Book of Revelation, were terrifying enough on their own.