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The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston acquired a recently rediscovered painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera for $4 million at Christie's auction on Friday. The price for the work is the third highest ever for a work by Rivera at…

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Artist Puviyarasu Kannadasan walks through rice paddies and temple festivals with his easel and pen to capture his Arani home in Tiruvallur on canvas Artist Puviyarasu Kannadasan walks through rice paddies and temple festivals with…

Claude VonStroke wants your weird music. The Dirtybird co-founder and esteemed house music producer is currently on the hunt for the weirdest, most innovative music out there. “I listen to every track that is submitted for review on!-->…

It is an image of haunting efficiency. A blonde figure stands with her back to the viewer and a paint roller in her hand, covering images of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X with strokes of white paint.…

NIDA's Atrium was transformed into a healing space that celebrated earth, water, fire and air through a collaboration between Bachelor of Fine Arts (Scenic Construction and Technology) students and the First Nations guest artist Nikki…

coronavirus, GROWING UP in the land of the Riverina, Nigel Killalea had an early affinity with the natural world. Raised on his family's fourth-generation mixed farm in Mangoplah, Killalea was surrounded by vibrant landscapes, each…

WASHINGTON, DC - Alma Thomas was born in Georgia in 1891. At the age of 15, her relatively prosperous black family moved to Washington, DC, where she lived and worked most of the rest of her life. The first fine arts graduate from Howard…

During a dark period of his youth, Bill Murray thought about killing himself while wandering the streets of Chicago. "I was ready to die," the actor said at a press conference several years ago. That day, he decides…

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) marks the New Year with a new class of artists from the Carter community: Dan Jian, Calder Kamin, Dr. Mary Nangah and Rachel Nash. The Fort Worth Museum launched the Carter…

A confessional, hidden behind the wall of a gallery; a forest of withered white trees; a ritual of public mourning, illuminated by candlelight. In 2021, artists have transcended conventional museum presentations to engage the full…

As soon as I stepped into the Museum of Modern Art's chronological retrospective “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction”, I felt delighted, like a kid again. I was captivated by the expressive movement, the pure geometric shapes and the…

Curator Max Fields stands in front of Baseera Khan's “Receive and Give” tapestry at FotoFest's “In Place of an Index” at Silver Street Studios, showcasing new artwork from 12 artists from or currently living in Texas, the Wednesday,!-->…

An exhibition of landscape paintings featuring masterpieces by prominent Chinese artist Li Keran (1907-1989) and his son, contemporary artist Li Xiaoke (1944-2021), opened in Beijing on Monday. , focusing on the legacy of Li Keran's!--enpcontent-->…

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Chiura Obata was among the thousands of people incarcerated during World War II because of their Japanese ancestry.(Chiura Obata | Utah Museum of Art) Chiura Obata's 1943 watercolor "Topaz War Relocation Center by Moonlight" is now part of…

Photo of Shelley Hanson Crystal Thornebrooke of Wheeling receives instructions from Wheeling artist Greg Siegwart during a painting class…

The IHME Helsinki 2022 Commission titled Learning from Doubt by an Indian Artist and Filmmaker Amar Kanwar, is a ten week online educational course. The course is based on and emerges from the installation and art exhibition The…

Work of the Syrian artist Mamdouh Kashlan. Muhammad Yusuf, Feature Writer Founded in 2016, the Atassi Foundation for Arts and Culture is a non-profit…

Mohammed Kazem is perhaps one of the best witnesses of the country's art history. He is one of them.Considered one of the “five,” a group of artists who led conceptual art in the Emirates in the 1980s and 1990s, he not only supported a…

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has never owned Vermeer, but it does have something even rarer, a painting that Vermeer copied in two of his own paintings. Dirck van Baburen's lascivious and satirical "The Procuress" was conspicuously hung…

Neapolitan crib (18th century); Colnaghi, London, during London Art Week Winter, December 3-10; price: seven-digit sumNow it's time for something a little festive: this huge 18th-century Neapolitan nativity scene (or presepe, in Italian)…

Valentina Bellomo / StuffPeel Forest artist Esther Deans has five works on display at the York St Gallery of Fine Art in Timaru.Esther Deans remembers taking a strange painting trip with her grandfather. Granddaughter of the famous…

Willie Birch, Courtyard view, 2021, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 72 x 96 ". Throughout his multifaceted six-decade career,…

FOR 40 years Peter Miller ran the Ken Spelman Bookstore on Micklegate, York. Now he's finishing a triple of exhibitions since his retirement in 2012, at the bustling craft cafe of Partisan, Florencia Clifford and…

THE first paintings encapsulating nature are from 7th century Chinese artists who were inspired by Taoism. The greatest age of Chinese ink and wash landscape paintings was AD 907-1127, embracing the Tang Dynasty. Artists such as Jing…

Last July, the The American Folk Art Museum in New York received a generous bounty: 40 works of art by Horace Pippin and Bill Traylor donated by former AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons and his wife, Laura. The donation came in the…

SINGAPORE - Cinematographic, alive, dynamic. These words are often used to describe the art of Chua Mia Tee. His famous painting Epic Poem Of Malaya, in which a man reads a poem to an enthusiastic audience of Chinese students, is no…

BIG SUR - For the first time in 50 years as a professional artist, Gregory Hawthorne has organized his works in a book called "Working Outside the Box - A Look at the Mind, Art and Life of Gregory Hawthorne" . Having produced over 6,000…

A small painting, The Sailboat on Lake Starnberg painted in 1867 by Pál Szinyei Merse, is back in Hungary after 80 years and will be shown in a full exhibition at the…

“Painting by Numbers, Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art” sounds like you're about to learn how…

COLORFUL SCENE: Simon Pell with some of his paintings he did during the lockdown Simon Pell trained in fine art at Slade, London, becoming a stage painter at the National Theater and…

Balinese Masters: Aesthetic Trajectories of Balinese Visual Art DNA, an ongoing presentation in Bali of installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings…

This is estimated that over 100,000 works of art are still missing as a result of Nazi activities during WWII. This means that there is a lot of work for Anke Kausch, an art historian specializing in the area of…