Year in Art

1896: The Year in Art
The year 1896 felt older than its number. Europe stood at the edge of a new century, and the arts trembled…
1897: The Year in Art
The year 1897 arrived not with a singular declaration of artistic identity but with an undercurrent of intensifying fragmentation. Across Europe…
1900: The Year in Art
The year 1900 did not drift in quietly. It arrived with fanfare, fireworks, and a glowing Paris that seemed to proclaim…
1897: The Year in Art
On April 3, 1897, a group of artists filed quietly but defiantly out of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the official home…
1899: The Year in Art
In the final year of the 19th century, the world of art vibrated with anticipation, contradiction, and unease. There was no…
1898: The Year in Art
The air in 1898 trembled with something unresolved. Artists, critics, and the public alike sensed that they stood in the charged…
1895: The Year in Art
The Adriatic shimmered with civic pride in the spring of 1895. On April 30th, Venice—once a fading museum of maritime memory—opened…
1901: The Year in Art
The year 1901 did not just mark the start of a new century—it brought with it a new idea of what…