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Jason Jacques Gallery will present an upcoming exhibition in partnership with the Last Prisoner Project. Titled SMOKE, the exhibition centers on a 19th century smoking set made by the French jeweler Boucheron. The piece is a beautiful, somewhat rarefied, highly decorative, and yet functional art object with a complex history that is relevant to many of the issues encountered today —  attitudes towards the idea of "intoxication" as well a pervasive fear of, yet inexplicabl...

Pierre-Auguste Renoi, Moulin Huet Bay, Guernsey, circa 1883 Anyone getting excited about summer days after lockdown may warm to this daydreamy scene. Renoir was one of the founders of the impressionist movement in the early 1870s – painting in the moment, in the open, to capture fleeting light. Here, a decade on, he’s still spontaneous and sensual. But the impressionist belief in depicting reality is melting. Those toothy rocks snarling out of the sea seem like fantastic visions. The ...

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1654-56, by Johannes Vermeer You could pass this painting without noticing it is by one of the most popular artists in history, Vermeer – for it is so different from his famous enigmatic scenes of a servant pouring milk or a girl turning her face towards us. But look again. This may seem a more conventional religious scene, yet the story of Christ visiting an ordinary home, where Mary sat to listen to him while Martha got on with her chores, resonate...