Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent, from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a scandalous success at the Paris Salon. Over the course of one extraordinary decade, Sargent achieved recognition by creating boldly ambitious portraits and figure paintings that pushed the boundaries of conventionality.

The iconic Madame X, a beloved highlight of The Met collection, is the culmination of Sargent’s early years in Paris. The exhibition will take an in-depth look at this captivating portrait and the numerous preparatory sketches, and it will be displayed alongside select portraits of Parisiennes by Sargent’s contemporaries.

The exhibition takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028 from April 27 – August 3, 2025.

For more information, please click here. 

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Artists in the Romantic period found endless inspiration in the beauty and power of nature. This exhibition highlights how these artists depicted the landscape, from detailed botanical studies to vast vistas. Important Romantic motifs are explored, including the melancholic appeal of ruins and the threat of destructive natural forces. Drawing upon the strengths of the Getty collection, the exhibition features works by important figures in the movement including Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W Turner, and Théodore Géricault.

The exhibition runs from February 18 – May 25, 2025 at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here. 

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ARC is pleased to welcome Cynthie Fisher as a new ARC Associate Living Master!

Wildlife artist Cynthie Fisher is nuts about animals. Everything in her world revolves around her love and admiration for all wildlife, which is aided by her college studies in zoology and wildlife management. She chooses to share this love via her vibrant colorful paintings, scratchboards and bronzes of species from all corners of the world. In pursuit of her inspiration, she has traveled to almost every continent, including 24 trips to Africa. Cynthie has been a professional artist for over 35 years, and has added bronze sculpture, glass mosaics, and mixed media sculpting to her repertoire.

To view Cynthie’s gallery on ARC, click here.  

The Art Renewal Center® (ARC) will award $30,000 to talented students attending ARC Approved ® schools through the 25th annual ARC Scholarship Competition. Entries will be accepted from May 1 – May 31, 2025. No entry fees are required to enter the competition. 

Please visit the ARC Scholarship application page to view the application and submit your works starting on May 1.

Image Shown: Nathan Pennington - The Brian Yoder Memorial Scholarship Award - 2024 Scholarship Competition

June 30 - July 25, 2025   

Masters of Line offers a unique opportunity to learn and practice copper plate etching at The Florence Academy of Art’s magnificent campus in Florence, Italy.

The course is studio-based, with accompanying Art History lectures, field drawing, material lectures, studio demonstrations, and intensive hands-on monitored studio/lab work. Students are introduced to all aspects of Line Etching, preparing the ground, biting, proof-printing, and plate correction, and finish the program with at least three of their own completed copper plates.

While ideal for beginners, this workshop offers substantial value to those with prior etching experience, covering both fundamental techniques and advanced processes involved in creating high quality works.

Location: The Florence Academy of Art, Via Aretina 293, Florence, Italy. Click here to view the campus: https://www.florenceacademyofart.edu/campus/#florence

For more information visit: https://www.florenceacademyofart.edu/workshops/etching-masters-of-line/ or email info@florenceacademyofart.edu

Come to London to study with artist Carlo Russo. The workshop will be held in an historic studio in Chelsea, UK with amazing north facing windows and light.

Inspired by 17th century Dutch masters such as Jan Van Huysum and Jan Weenix, students will learn to build a painting, a section at a time, into a larger cohesive arrangement using in-season fruits, vegetables and flowers.

The workshop will include visits, lectures, drawing and critiques at the National Gallery and the Victoria Albert Museum. There will also be the opportunity to visit the famed Chelsea Physic Garden to enjoy the rare flowers and medicinal plants. This workshop is hosted by BACAA.

The workshop runs from July 18-July 24, 2025.

To learn more details, please visit https://www.bacaa.org/bacaacarlo-russo-bacchanal-dutch-garden-still-life

The Allied Artists of America is now accepting entries for their 112th Online Annual Exhibition.

Open to artists over 18 years of age from around the world, the competition offers over $45,000 in cash prizes.

This year the Reading Public Museum will be hosting a curated exhibition comprised of 100 works selected from the accepted entries in Allied Artists' 112th online exhibition.

The entry period is March 15 - June 17, 2025.  The acceptance notification will be on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

To learn more about the competition and the requirements for entry, please click here.

Bringing 25 rarely-displayed masterpiece drawings by Michelangelo to the United States, Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine will offer American viewers an unprecedented opportunity to experience first-hand the genius of the famed artist. Displaying Michelangelo’s initial studies and early drawings of the famous frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, the exhibition will explore the rich story of the origin of these works, arguably some of the most famous in the world.

The exhibition runs from March 6 – May 28, 2025 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, 603 Jamestown Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185.

To learn more, click here. 

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French painter Gustave Caillebotte’s interest in male subjects sharply distinguishes him from his Impressionist peers. Overwhelmingly, he observed and depicted the men in his life—including his brothers, bachelor friends, fellow sportsmen, and the workers and bourgeois of his neighborhood—and did so in bracingly original paintings that often subverted artistic and gender norms. His distinctive vision of modern masculinity is considered here for the first time in a major international loan exhibition.

This exhibition runs from February 25 – May 25, 2025 at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049.

To learn more, click here.  

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Explore the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age through the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary.

More than 300 objects from the Royal Collection will be on display – almost half for the first time – including works by the most renowned contemporary artists of the period, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Rosa Bonheur, John Singer Sargent and William Morris.

The exhibition covers the period from Edward and Alexandra's wedding in 1863 up to the end of the First World War.

The exhibition runs from April 11 – Nov 23, 2025 at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA, UK.

To learn more, click here. 

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This two person show explores interiors and landscape with ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides and Lori Putnam.

On Friday April 25th, 4-6pm, Juliette will lead an afternoon workshop on creativity, followed by a book signing from 6-7:30.

Saturday April 26th, 6-8pm, there will be a reception for the artists Lori Putnam and Juliette Aristides.

The exhibition runs from March 29 - May 31, 2025 at the LeQuire Gallery, 4304 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37209.

Visit https://www.lequiregallery.com/exhibits/current-exhibits/ or contact LeQuire Director Elizabeth Cave for more information ecave@lequiregallery.com

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BACAA/Tony Ryder Intensive Portrait Drawing Master Workshop  -  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK 2025

Join ARC Living Master Anthony Ryder and the ARC Approved Atelier, BACAA on a five-day drawing workshop at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK.

This workshop is for students wishing to develop a deeper understanding of the classical tradition of portrait drawing. The focus will be on patience, craft, observation, and understanding of drawing principles. Students will learn a practical drawing method that serves as a framework in which to study the elements of drawing. Drawings are built up methodically through a succession of linear and tonal stages. Each stage embodies and exemplifies one or more universal aesthetic principle: shape, curve, form and light.

Included will be a one day trip to London to visit the National Gallery collection. Participants will also visit the Western Print Room (which has an extensive collection of master drawings) at the Ashmolean Museum. Their studio is in the Ashmolean museum and it is an incredible chance to be immersed in the collection.

To learn more about this workshop, visit https://www.bacaa.org/bacaatony-ryder-intensive-portrait-drawing-master-workshop-2025.

The Master of Arts in Studio Art at The Florence Academy of Art is uniquely crafted for art educators seeking professional development while advancing their personal artistic skills.

Through flexible, summer-only sessions (in-person or remote), you can complete your degree without disrupting your current commitments.

The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based, and completed over 3 summer sessions. Each summer session is 5 weeks in duration. Students may choose to complete all 3 summer sessions in person at our facilities in Jersey City and Florence, Italy, or attend up to 2 out of the 3 summer sessions remotely. All students are encouraged to attend the third summer session and graduation ceremony at The Florence Academy of Art's magnificent campus in Florence, Italy.

The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).

For more information: https://www.florenceacademyofart.edu/academics-graduate-programs/master-of-arts-in-studio-art/

ARC is pleased to welcome Chitra Shastra Atelier as a new ARC Approved Atelier!

A valuable sentence that guides Chitra Shastra Atelier is quite simply, “Know Thy Art- Know Thy Self”.

The rigorous 4 year syllabus includes Portrait Drawing, Portrait Painting, Figure Drawing, and Figure Painting.  Additionally, they also offer Still Life and Construction Design as short courses. Monthly sessions for 'brushing-up', 'practice sessions' and 'hobby sessions' for art enthusiasts are held on weekends for working professionals.  Every Sunday is dedicated to providing the ambience, space and models for figurative drawing, to fulfill the needs for professional artists and students alike. Demonstration and interaction with experts in fine arts is held from time to time, to provide an aesthitic and diverse exposure to realistic art created by different artists.

To learn more about Chitra Shastra Atelier, please click here.   

The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), possibly the most widely admired and influential British artist of all time. 

This exhibition, the first show focused on Turner to be held at the Yale Center for British Art in more than thirty years, will showcase the museum’s rich holdings of the artist’s work. Unequaled in North America, this collection includes some of Turner’s most acclaimed oil paintings, notably his masterpiece Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1818) and his celebrated later painting Staffa, Fingal’s Cave (1831–32). Alongside these major works, the exhibition will also feature outstanding watercolors and prints from the YCBA’s collection, including the artist’s only complete sketchbook outside of the British Isles.

The exhibition runs from 3/29 – 7/27/25 at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here. 

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ARC Living Master Thomas Kegler will be partnering with the La Romita School in the central region of Italy in Umbria to offer a Plein Air Landscape Painting Workshop. The school is housed in an exquisitely renovated sixteenth century Capuchin monastery surrounded by olive groves. This all inclusive workshop brings their decades-long expertise to make this a truly unique, intimate, and authentic Italian experience. You just bring your personal art supplies and enthusiasm.

This workshop is catered for artists of all skill levels from very beginners to professionals. Kegler will cover all aspects of landscape painting from the initial concept sketches, field studies done “en plein air”, and studio composition approaches. Although he will work in oil, pencil, watercolor and pastel artists are most welcome to participate. You can work at your own pace, whether it be slow and meditative, or more immersive and driven.

The workshop runs from August 19th - August 29th, 2025.

Please visit the website for more information and to sign up. This will be a small group and spaces are limited, so please reach out soon!

https://thomaskegler.com/classes/italy/?mc_cid=e2e7c746ac&mc_eid=961c5434cf

Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s birth by viewing twelve of his watercolors from the Taft Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. J. M. W. Turner: Watercolor Horizons is the first exhibition in nearly forty years to bring together the two museums’ luminous works by Turner in this medium. Considered one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, Turner (English, 1775–1851) was a master of the art of watercolor. A prolific artist and intrepid traveler, he was especially drawn to mountains, alpine lakes, glaciers, river valleys, and the sea, as well as the human presence within these dramatic settings.

The show runs from March 1 – June 15, 2025 at the Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202.

For more information, click here. 

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ARC Associate Living Master Mark Harrison is holding a solo show of evocative, symbolic landscapes exploring the concept of "home" and it's intrinsic connection to the landscape. The warm glow of light that emanates from each structure becomes a metaphor for the resilience and spirit within all of us set against the backdrop of uncertain futures.

The imagined settings transcend specific locations offering the viewer a chance to reflect on their personal sense of belonging amidst the changing world. Each composition invites an emotional connection suggesting that home is as much a state of mind as a place.

Harrison’s fascination with the vastness of the American Landscape is evident throughout the 15 paintings all employing a panoramic format that add a layer of grandeur and reflection to the themes of home and humanity which together create a series of paintings that speak both to the personal and the universal.

The show takes place at the Abend Gallery, 1261 Delaware Street, Suite 2, Denver, CO 80204 and runs from April 5 -19, 2025.

For more information, please click here.  

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