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Negoro-ji
Negoro-ji (根來寺) is a Buddhist temple in Iwade, Wakayama, Japan, and head temple of the Shingi Shingon school; burned in 1585, its 1547 Great Pagoda survives as a National Treasure.
Nek Chand
Nek Chand Saini (1924–2015) was an Indian self-taught artist and road inspector who secretly built the Rock Garden of Chandigarh from waste materials, receiving the Padma Shri in 1984.
Nemesis (DC Comics)
Nemesis (DC Comics) is Tom Tresser, a master-of-disguise government agent created by Cary Burkett and Dan Spiegle, debuting in The Brave and the Bold #166 (September 1980); distinct from Wildcats' Charis Adrastrea and Millar's Icon character.
Nenjū Gyōji Emaki
Nenjū Gyōji Emaki (年中行事絵巻) is a lost set of late Heian Japanese handscrolls, commissioned by retired emperor Go-Shirakawa, depicting the annual ceremonies of the imperial court.
Neo-Concretism
Neo-Concretism (Neoconcretismo) was a Brazilian avant-garde art movement formed in Rio de Janeiro in 1959 as a dissident offshoot of São Paulo Concretism, valuing lived experience and the viewer's body over rationalism.
Neo-Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism is an international art movement, chiefly in painting, that revived the raw, figurative, emotionally charged style of Expressionism among painters of the 1970s and 1980s, including Georg Baselitz and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Neo-Impressionism
Neo-Impressionism, also known as Divisionism or Pointillism, is an avant-garde art movement led by Georges Seurat that flourished in France from 1886 to about 1900.
Neoclassical architecture in Russia
Neoclassical architecture in Russia, usually called classicism, is the classical building style that took root under Catherine II from 1762 and shaped St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Neoclassical sculpture
Neoclassical sculpture is a European style of about 1750 to 1830 that revived ancient Greek and Roman art, led by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (新古典主義, néo-classicisme): European art and architecture movement of the later 18th and early 19th centuries reviving Greek and Roman models, sparked by Herculaneum and Pompeii excavations and Winckelmann's writings; led by Mengs, David, Ingres, and Canova.
Neptuno alegórico
Neptuno alegórico is a 1680 prose work by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz describing a triumphal arch she designed for the new viceroy of New Spain.
Nerezi frescoes
The Nerezi frescoes are the 1164 Byzantine wall paintings of the Church of Saint Panteleimon in Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, North Macedonia, celebrated for the emotionally intense Lamentation over the Dead Christ.
Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן)
Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן), American-Israeli designer and former MIT professor, coined "material ecology," founded the Mediated Matter Group and OXMAN, and faced 2024 plagiarism allegations.
Nestor's Cup (Pithekoussai)
Nestor's Cup is an 8th-century BCE Rhodian kotyle from Tomb 168 at Pithekoussai, Ischia, bearing one of the oldest Greek alphabetic inscriptions, a three-line verse alluding to Nestor's cup in the Iliad; 2021 reanalysis found at least three adults buried with it.
Netherlandish Proverbs
Netherlandish Proverbs, also called Flemish Proverbs or The Topsy Turvy World, is an oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, made in 1559, that literally illustrates more than 100 Dutch proverbs.
Neutral-density filter
Neutral-density filter (ND filter): grey optical filter that attenuates all visible wavelengths uniformly, enabling long exposures and daylight video apertures; rated by optical density (ND4 = 25% transmission), made as fixed, variable, or graduated types.
New Bauhaus
The New Bauhaus was an American design school founded in Chicago in 1937 by former Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy to carry the Bauhaus program to the United States.
New Color photography
New Color photography, also called the New Color movement, was an American art photography school of the 1970s and 1980s that made color film a fine-art medium.
New Documents
New Documents was a 1967 MoMA exhibition, organized by John Szarkowski, presenting about 90 photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, then little known.
New Era Sculpture Park
New Era Sculpture Park (牛耳石雕公園, New Era Art Resort & Spa) is a 1987 sculpture park in Puli, Nantou County, Taiwan, founded by Huang Ping-sung for naive artist Lin Yuan, also showing Yuyu Yang and Zhu Ming; now a 6.6-hectare resort.
New Jinling school
The New Jinling school (新金陵画派) is a Chinese landscape painting movement that rose in Jiangsu in the 1960s around the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Academy, led by Fu Baoshi.
New Objectivity
New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) was a German art movement of the 1920s and early 1930s reacting against Expressionism with sober realism and satire, named after Gustav Hartlaub's 1925 Kunsthalle Mannheim exhibition; leading figures included Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Max Beckmann.
New Topographics
New Topographics was a 1975 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, whose deadpan pictures of suburban tracts and industrial parks named a lasting style.
New Woodcut Movement
The New Woodcut Movement (新兴木刻运动, also called 新兴版画运动) was a Chinese art movement of the 1930s and 1940s, initiated and led by the writer Lu Xun.
New Year picture movement
The New Year picture movement (新年画运动) was a state-directed art campaign in China, launched in November 1949 and regarded as the first large-scale art movement of the People's Republic.
New York Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week (NYFW), begun as Eleanor Lambert's 1943 Press Week, is the semiannual February and September American runway event opening the Big Four fashion month, organized by the CFDA via the Fashion Calendar since 2014.
New York–Dublin Portal
The New York–Dublin Portal, also called the Dublin Portal, was a 2024 circular-sculpture livestream by Benediktas Gylys's Portals project linking Flatiron Plaza, NYC and O'Connell Street, Dublin; suspended in May 2024 for lewd behavior, restricted to set hours, and switched from New York to Philadelphia in October 2024.
Newar metal casting
Newar metal casting is the lost-wax and repoussé metalwork tradition of Newar artisans of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, centered in Patan and practiced for over a thousand years.
Newar metalwork
Newar metalwork is the metalcraft tradition of the Newar people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, centered on Patan and known for lost-wax casting, repoussé, and fire-gilding.
Nguyễn Gia Trí
Nguyễn Gia Trí (1908–1993) was a Vietnamese painter widely regarded as the father of modern Vietnamese lacquer painting, which he raised from decorative craft to fine art.