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Painting that exalts the eye and the spirit
Under the rule of tolerant Muslims, Indian artists of the Mughal Empire (1526-c. 1857) developed a very distinctive aesthetic. Court, epic, spirit: 15th-19th century Indian art at Luhring Augustine, in collaboration with Francesca…
Post-pandemic – How has Covid-19 changed the local art scene? Part 1
This year has started on a high note, with the return of the physical Investec Cape Town Art Fair event in February. “There was a strong sense of optimism among visitors and an obvious delight in rediscovering works of art in the flesh,”…
The Royal BC Museum acquires a rare painting by the continent’s first professional black…
It's the newest gem in the Royal BC Museum's collection of more than 10,500 works of art — an 1883 painting of Victoria Harbor by Grafton Tyler Brown.
The museum celebrates the acquisition of harbor entrance as part of Black History…
Kunsthalle Praha aims to give a spark to Prague’s art scene
PRAGUE - The Kunsthalle Praha, which opened on Tuesday in the former Zenger power substation, is not the first exhibition space in a former power station. Yet from the start, this privately funded redevelopment opposite Prague Castle puts…
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum | Harvard Review
Before painter Milton Avery's works were featured in the world's most prestigious museums - and long before they numbered in the millions - the artist now known for his playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire lived a low-key…
Ancient Greek Art | The Art Institute of Chicago
The ancient Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, was home to a wide variety of artistic communities. Over 3,000 years ago, these makers used natural resources such as stone, clay and metals to create new shapes, styles and…
Claude VonStroke Talks Experimentation, Surreal Art, and More: “I Don’t Think…
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!-->…
‘Euphoria’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap
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Art with heart: British Columbia artists thank frontline staff with artwork
British Columbia artists are using their talent and creativity to thank frontline workers by gifting original works through an online platform. Artists can donate their work by making a submission on the Arthanks website, where each…
Judy Baca, the famous Chicana muralist who paints Los Angeles’ forgotten history: “My…
Judy Baca still remembers the day in the 1970s when the curator of an exhibit featuring the work of emerging Los Angeles artists told him she couldn't include Baca in the exhibit. "They're just people touched by an angel," Baca recalls…
Artists Paint Nordic Landscapes in Watercolor – Journal
PESHAWAR: Renowned watercolourist Ali Sajid and his colleagues recently held an art exhibition titled 'Golden Hour' in Islamabad to attract foreign tourists by painting landscapes and sights.
The aim of the exhibition was to boost local…
Antique and Contemporary Woodblock Print: “Hiroshige and the Changing Japanese…
Fishermen with their morning catch, travelers on a tree-lined path beneath Mount Fuji, intrepid teahouse…
Christie’s offers the collection of Pierre Durand, co-founder of The Chinese Porcelain Company
George II giltwood trumeau mirror inlaid with Chinese export inverted mirror paintings, circa 1760…
The transcendent power of black in Norman Lewis’ abstractions
The color black can have many different expressive meanings. There is the soothing darkness of the night, when the sunlight has faded and the world seems peaceful. But there is also the…
See the pink floats after the parade at Floatfest – NBC Los Angeles
What there is to knowJanuary 1 and 2, 2022$ 20 (tickets are timed)Sierra Madre Boulevard and Washington Boulevard in Pasadena
January 2?
It's not a day that many people associate with the Rose Parade, a New Years tradition.…
We launched Artnet News Pro to give you exactly what you need to know about the art market. Here…
In May, we took a big step here at Artnet News. We launched Artnet News Pro, a new members-only section, to provide readers with the tools they need to navigate the high-stakes terrain of the art market.
Since then, thousands of…
Artists say plagiarized NFTs are poisoning their community
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have opened up possibilities previously unimagined for many artists, allowing them to create or “craft” unique works of art and reach a global collector base with…
Troppy’s legacy lives on in art boxes, the local art scene
Darrell Troppy, a low-key and private man but quite a public artist, left a legacy that almost anyone who drives the streets of Beaumont can see every day and lights up the most unlikely of canvases - the steel gray utility boxes that offer…
Year in visual arts, dance: Houston communities present themselves in their best light in 2021
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,!-->…
“Real Housewives of Miami” Season 4 Episode Three Recap
This week on our favorite show, Alexia Echevarria does things, Alexia Echevarria does things. She wears high heels for an artistic opening of a tall…
The year the art scene rebounded, expanded, and surrendered to the NFTs
The pandemic is on and the confusion persists - and I'm not talking about the Omicron variant. You can't talk about art in 2021 without mentioning NFTs non-fungible tokens stormed the doors of the contemporary art establishment in March,…
The way Eve Babitz wrote about art in Los Angeles was art in itself
Try to remember when you didn't know Eve Babitz.I first read Eve as part of a book of photographs by artist Zoe Crosher. Zoe's work is not about the city per se. Through photography and detective archive projects, she maps a certain…
UMFA acquires works by leading Japanese-American artist, including images from Topaz internment camp…
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…
Olivia Barrett articulates the art world for the public
Loving art to the point of having the desire to open and run a gallery takes passion. It also requires an understanding of the art born of observation and deep reflection. In addition to these things, some people also have a knack for…
Edwardsville’s arts scene shows resilience
EDWARDSVIILLE - The past 20+ months of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a challenge for the Edwardsville arts community, but they continue to show resilience.“Sponsorship for the arts this year was a bit behind in previous years, which was…
Franklin Art Scene returns for a festive evening of local arts | Communities
Franklin's arts scene returned to downtown Franklin on Friday evening, coinciding with the 2021 Christmas…
The Atassi Foundation for Arts and Culture and ArtScoops organize an auction
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…
Comment: Street art is gaining popularity and recognition
Paint Louis, an annual global community…
The painter finds his “little corner” in Grantville
When asked why he became a painter, John Shelton had a simple answer.
“This is who I am - this is what I do,” he said.
Shelton started painting in eighth grade, and…
artist Mohammed Kazem reflects on the rapid rise of the country’s art scene
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…
Inside the newly renovated Dutch and Flemish art galleries of the MFA
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…
Wilderness and Watercolors: Exploring The Foster, Palo Alto’s Hidden Museum Honoring An…
As a child, Palo Altan Jane Woodward dreamed of living in a museum. She spent her summers visiting her grandmother in Manhattan and loved to fantasize about what it would be like to live in the Metropolitan Museum, like the characters in…
Our selection of exhibitions to see during Art Basel in Miami Beach
My name is maryanUntil March 20, 2022 at the Museum of Contemporary Art North MiamiPolish-born Jewish artist Maryan was a child when he arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and left Auschwitz in 1945 as the only survivor of his…
Austen Deans’ granddaughter exhibits her work at Timaru’s York St Gallery
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…
SAM exhibit shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham was one of the premier photographers of his…
Photographer Imogen Cunningham was born in 1883; the same year, a car first crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, the deadly Krakatoa volcano exploded over the Sunda Strait and a train, later immortalized in the "Murder on the Orient Express"…
[Interview] Photographer Palani Mohan’s ‘Small Miracles’ captured on film, on…
Photography gives us the ability to capture brief and fleeting moments in time and make them permanent. While the subject of a painting may have to sit for hours or even days, the subject…
David Little returns to his abstract roots
David Little calls it a reset, but it sounds like a rediscovery.
Widely known as a landscape painter in love with Katahdin and the East Coast, Little, who lives in Portland, is exhibiting a series of new paintings at the Merrill Memorial…
The power of nature captured in art
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…
Museum Exchange wants to match art museums with donors – ARTnews.com
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…
Legendary Artist Plays 50 Years of Artistic Life in New Limited Edition Book – Monterey Herald
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…
The work of Cambridge artist David Wood chosen for the annual ING Discerning Eye exhibition
Cambridge artist David Wood was chosen from 7,500 participants to present his painting of Stourbridge Common at Night at the annual ING Discerning Eye exhibition in London.Artist David Wood on Stourbridge Common. Photo: Keith!-->…
Artstra to host eighth Clark County Open Studios tour
Sebastian Rubino / sebastian@thereflector.com
After a one-year hiatus, the nonprofit Artsstra will host the eighth Clark County Open Studio Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on November 6 and 7.
The…
Adult tic torment: a man finds refuge at the easel
OTTAWA - Five years after it began, a man from Arnprior continues to struggle with his poor health.
Don Lacasse, 50, suffers from adult tic syndrome, a disease causing daily episodes of uncontrollable screaming and…
The new exhibition is the first to fully examine the impact of southern European sites on Picasso
PICASSO, Le Baiser Mougins, October 26, 1969. Oil on canvas. Musée national Picasso-Paris Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP220 © 2021 Succession Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This winter, the Dalí Museum in St.…
10 painting ideas that are easy to try
If you are an artist or want to express yourself through art and painting, there are many easy painting ideas you can try. Expressing yourself artistically is a great form of relaxation.
We've got several easy painting ideas for anyone…
Mystery of ‘Salvator Mundi’, the most expensive painting in the world – arts…
Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in…
Secret of the stolen paint – Art ‘sleuth’ solves missing story of Nazi plundered…
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…
Lady Liberty painting drawing controversy
SANTA ANA, Calif .-- A violation of the separation of church and state: This is what an organization says about a painting hanging in the office of a congressman from the south of the California.it depicts Lady Liberty wearing a hijab,…
Cave Painting Ideas and Beyond: Summer Craft Fun for Kids!
Cave painting is just the start when it comes to choosing natural materials for your summer painting pleasure. Nuts, sticks - name it - are all inspiration for amazingly creative summer crafts for kids!
First, grab the youngsters…