Fine Art Today

The Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn, New York, is the proud venue of an eye-popping exhibition featuring painting by some of the most talented hyper-realist artists working today. But that’s not all. Who’s — and what’s — included, and for how long?

Twenty-seven years after Agnews staged Lotte Laserstein’s last exhibition before her death, the gallery is once again mounting a vibrant display of the artist’s work. What’s the angle of the new show?

Viewers have a chance to see a range of dynamic narrative paintings by a skillful artist who seeks to depict extreme melodrama and disrupt figure/background interplay. Sound interesting?

In this ongoing series for Fine Art Today, we take a longer look at the history and features of a soon-to-be-available artwork of note. This week we highlight a spectacular selection of Russian masterpieces available soon in London.

Self-proclaimed kitsch painters Jeremy Caniglia and Luke Hillestad will discuss their experience working with the figurative master Odd Nerdrum at the Nerdrum School during a December lecture that could illuminate the future of figurative painting. When and where?

There's still time to view the new works of Hollis Dunlap, a graduate of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, who has been honing his realist techniques since age 14.

Important selections from one of the finest collections of European art ever to have been formed in the United States by a private collector is currently on view. Including masterpieces by key figures of the Renaissance, the Dutch Golden Age, and 19th-century American and French masters, this show is one for the ages.

The first exhibition of the A.K. Prakash Collection of works by James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924), one of Canada’s most celebrated modernist artists, will adorn the walls of this renowned institution soon.

For the first time ever, four newly restored reliquaries that were painted by Renaissance icon Fra Angelico for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434 will be reunited during a blockbuster exhibition. Where?

In case you almost missed it ... A California museum has brought together a must-see selection of master drawings by two of 18th-century Italy’s most famous father/son artists: Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. The show offers viewers an engaging experience of luminous compositions, as the Tiepolos’ splendid drawings — and the works of other Venetian artists — provide a unique view into the distinctive art of the lagoon city.