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3 hours ago

Breathtaking Grotesque Illustrations Capturing Humanity's Darkest Corners by Vergvoktre

A diverse array of contemporary visual works spans photography, illustration, street art, tattoos, sculpture, anime, and dark cinematic painting.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 hours ago

Sunday Puzzle: -IUM Pandemonium

Find ordinary words ending with -IUM that match twelve given definitions (example: boredom → TEDIUM).
fromdesignyoutrust.com
4 hours ago

Amazing Fantasy Landscapes And Book Cover Art By Concept Artist Raja Nandepu

In Italy, McDonald's Has Unveiled A Nutella Burger Disturbing Dreams: The Superb Bizarre Art by Miles Johnston "Dinotopia": The Fantastical Art Of James Gurney Spectacular Black And White-Winning Photos From The 35 Photography Awards Meet Kazm Gurbuz, A 95-Year-Old Yoga Guru From Turkey Stunning 360 Portraits by Gianluca Traina Portrait of Steve Jobs Made With Apples Tiny Superheroes in Superb Comic Art by Dan Hipp
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
4 hours ago

Stunning Daily Renders Blending Cinema 4D And AI Into Otherworldly Scenes by Will Toulan

Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn't Feel Different 21 Watercolors That Show How The Sun And Shadows Change Cities The Designer Reveals His Suggestions for Redesigning Famous Brands Naive, Super: Lovely Paintings by Angela Smyth Creative Spontaneous Sketches of Faces and Figures by Pawe Ponichtera Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line Artist Paints While Under The Influence Of 20 Different Drugs The Uncannily Realistic Landscapes Of Carolyn H. Edlund
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fromwww.theguardian.com
9 hours ago

Why western Sicily is Italy's emerging arts hub

Andrea Bartoli and Florinda Saievi transformed Palermo's Convento dei Crociferi into the Museum of World Cities, continuing Farm Cultural Park's urban-revival work begun in Favara.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
5 days ago
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Amazing Psychedelic Digital Artworks By Argentinian Artist Juan Brufal

A diverse roundup of contemporary visual art and creative projects spanning photography, illustration, sculpture, digital manipulation, and cultural commentary.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 day ago
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Amazing Key Art And Concept Pieces With Perfect Lighting And Detail bt Lee Vander

A diverse range of contemporary visual projects spans street art, photography, illustration, surreal manipulation, historical imagery, and socially engaged works.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

In this Icelandic drama, a couple quietly drifts apart

An artist's home and relationship disintegrate amid Iceland's changing natural forces, linking nature, family, and love through quiet observation.
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fromwww.npr.org
22 hours ago

'Wait Wait' for February 7, 2026: With Not My Job guest Mychal Threets

Live Chicago episode features Peter Sagal with Bill Kurtis, panelists Tom Bodett, Josh Gondelman, Tig Notaro, and guest Mychal Threets across games, limericks, and predictions.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

This Serene Canaletto Is Now One of the Italian Masters Most Expensive Works | Artnet News

Canaletto's Venice, the Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day, sold at Christie's for $30.5 million including fees, slightly above its $30 million estimate.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Mariah Carey, coffee makers and other highlights from the Olympic opening ceremony

The Milan opening ceremony blended live spectacle across multiple Italian venues with televised segments, visible backstage activity, and extensive volunteer choreography.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

The Art World's Epstein Problem

Epstein files reveal systemic corruption tying wealthy elites to the art world and prompt demands to reject tainted funding and reform donor ethics.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
19 hours ago

At Mexico City's Material and Salon Acme fairs, artists find hope in nature

"The new venue has allowed us to develop the experience of the fair-it lends itself to being more of a destination," Brett W. Schultz, the co-founder and director of Material, tells The Art Newspaper. The fair features over 70 exhibitors this year, with an especially strong contingent of Mexico City galleries that, like Material, have been around for a little over a decade.
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fromsfist.com
17 hours ago

Field Notes: Bean Meeting, Magnolias in Bloom, and Christopher Burch's Cosmic Paintings

Bay Area artists and local brands provide handcrafted, culturally rooted art, design, and fashion to Super Bowl events, exhibits, and retail collaborations.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
19 hours ago

radical and spherical 'casa bola' to host upcoming sao paulo exhibition ABERTO5

For ABERTO5, the itinerant exhibition series is set to open next month at Casa Bola, Eduardo Longo's spherical residence in São Paulo, opening the architect's private home to the public as the setting for its fifth edition. From March 7th to May 31st, 2026, ABERTO returns to Brazil after its Paris chapter at Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche (read more here) and shifts its attention to one of the city's most unique dwellings.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums

An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck? Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the small number of surviving works by one of western art's greatest masters, revered for his naturalistic portraits and religious subjects.
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fromPsychology Today
23 hours ago

Why Art Is a Pillar of Health

Creativity improves mental health through emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, social connectedness, and activation of emotion-regulation neural circuits via active or passive art engagement.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

'A party and a protest': What to expect from Bad Bunny on Super Bowl Sunday

Bad Bunny won Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammys for Debi Tirar Mas Fotos, becoming the first artist to earn that honor with a Spanish-language album.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

How the Debates Over Art, Race, and Tech Have Changed | Artnet News

Aria Dean bridges digital-culture critique and race-centered work, culminating in The Color Scheme, a theatrical fusion of theory and performance set in 1920s Berlin.
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1 day ago
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Leon Black and Ronald Lauder Joined Forces to Buy Masterpieces, Epstein Files Show | Artnet News

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Leon Black and Ronald Lauder Joined Forces to Buy Masterpieces, Epstein Files Show | Artnet News

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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Mona Lisa's Face Redacted in Latest Trove of Epstein Files

DOJ redacted a reproduction of the Mona Lisa in Epstein-related documents while releasing sensitive victim information, including social security numbers and uncensored photos.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Hyperpop, poetry, BDSM or a Moroccan rave allegory? Choose your own cinematic adventure

Charli XCX stars in The Moment, a hyperpop faux documentary examining fame and commercialization; Alexander Skarsgård appears in both comedic and BDSM-romantic roles.
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1 day ago

How the Mayor Gallery Has Helped Define Contemporary Art for 100 Years

In the story of art history-the art and artists, movements and trends-a select number of galleries have played a defining role in the evolution and trajectory of art itself. Among them, the Mayor Gallery in London is surely one, as it has maintained a position fostering and promoting some of the most significant developments in art for an astounding 100 years.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

'Pillion' is a wildly entertaining dark comedy about sex and power

A bleak 1970s novel about a young man's abusive BDSM relationship was adapted into a lighter, present-day film that reframes abuse as emotional neglect.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

MFA Boston Denies Targeting Employees of Color in Layoffs | Artnet News

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston laid off 33 employees including its only Black, Muslim, and Indigenous curators, prompting calls and petitions for reinstatement.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

Joanne Greenbaum combines diverse media and mark-making to create cohesive paintings where individual elements retain distinctiveness, blending stillness with accelerating movement.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

When Artists Lose Their Archives

An artist lost a storage unit and later discovered parts of their work were sold online without notification, stripping authorship and meaning.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Brooklyn "Wall of Tears" Lists Names of Children Killed in Gaza

A 50-foot public memorial lists the estimated 18,500 children killed in Gaza from October 2023 to July 2025.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

The Art World After Epstein

We knew everything we needed to know about the art world before the Epstein Files dropped. Before heinous allegations against Museum of Modern Art trustee Leon Black emerged, or School of Visual Arts chair David A. Ross's sympathetic endorsement of Epstein came out, we knew about the intimate connections between institutional heads and donors and trustees. The exchanges of money, donations, or favors that bind them.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Gerhard Richter's $8 Million Landscape to Lead Christie's London Sale | Artnet News

The two works offered at the house's 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on March 5 include Schober (Haybarn) from 1984, one of the artist's largest landscape photo-paintings, with presale expectations in the region of £6 million ($8.2 million). Formerly in in the collection of New York real estate developers Emily and Jerry Spiegel, who acquired the work from dealer Marian Goodman in 1985, the canvas sold at Christie's New York in 2017 for $6.97 million to the current owner.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

Oscar-nominated director calls Iran a 'failed state' after his co-writer's arrest

Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of Jafar Panahi's acclaimed film, was arrested in Iran for signing a statement condemning Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

The Unruly Politics of Glitter

Presented with improbable dignity in a golden box is a hanging ornament in the shape of the Trevi Fountain that comes with a "complimentary papal blessing." Its roughly shaped details would be dull if the whole thing weren't drowned in glitter. Under the shop lights, this perfect miniature of late Baroque architecture explodes in shine: a beacon promising a brighter future and a better life.
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Haiti's Hand-Painted Winter Olympics Uniforms Are a 'Story of Resistance' | Artnet News

Haiti's Olympic uniforms were hand-redesigned after the IOC banned Toussaint Louverture imagery as political, leading to a novel, hand-painted alteration preserving symbolic elements.
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fromJuxtapoz
3 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Annie Pendergrast "Taut" @ Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles

Annie Pendergrast's abstracted still lifes use floral motifs and patterned forms to explore color, composition, controlled systems, and deliberate disruptions within modernist painting.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
6 days ago

Artist Builds Epic Scifi Worlds: Dystopian Cities, Ruined Castles And Alien Megastructures In Cinematic Detail

Contemporary creatives span surrealism, illustration, installations, concept design, and craft to reimagine everyday objects, nostalgia, folklore, social commentary, and dreamlike worlds.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 day ago

Stunning Mistfilled Forests And Broken Trees Painted In Oldmaster Style by Martin Voigt

The Good, the Bad, the Mischievous: Cool Illustrations by Max Grecke Artist Draws Faces He Sees In Everyday Objects Lithuanian Artists Creates A Tiny Urban Project With City Signs The Graphic Designer Reworking Fashion's Most Iconic Logos Meet Yang Qi, Main Character Designer On 'Black Myth Wukong' Awesome Dad Turns Daughter's Eyepatch Into Art With Amazing Drawings This Artist Removes Make-Up From The Dolls To Give Them A More Realistic Look
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fromBerlin Art Link
2 days ago

Review of 'Not I' at Capitain Petzel | Berlin Art Link

A group exhibition channels feverish, fractured interiority—Beckett's Not I video and lacquered sculptures depict entrapment, memory instability, and twitching inner monologues.
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fromArtforum
1 day ago

Sara Graca returns to Lisbon

An exhibition remodels a stepped U-shaped space by adding ramps using repurposed materials, merging rooms while keeping existing walls, prioritizing accessibility and material reuse.
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fromColossal
1 day ago

Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

Martin Wittfooth paints surreal flora-and-fauna scenes that probe interconnection, community, and nature's endurance through enigmatic compositions.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 days ago

Jennifer Wright's 'Echolocations': Making music and the instruments, too * Oregon ArtsWatch

On January 17 Jennifer Wright gave a stellar performance of her compositions for her self-crafted instruments. This performance marked the conclusion of a month-long exhibition of her instruments and sound sculptures in the galleria of PLACE in Northwest Portland. This is the performance where she said she "finally had a chance to let all the parts of me out to play."
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fromAnOther
2 days ago

Georg Wilson's Uncanny British Landscapes

Like half-remembered dreams, her curious pastoral visions displace familiarity in search of wilder fantasies, where humans are nowhere to be found. Against Nature, the London-based artist's second solo show at Pilar Corrias, establishes Wilson at the helm of a flourishing artistic engagement with the para-pastoral in contemporary painting. Hers is an altogether strange, uncanny variant of the British countryside that resists the canonical entrapments of a bucolic idyll.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift

Van Cleef & Arpels is sponsoring an expanded Dance Reflections festival in New York featuring sixteen mainly European dance productions and high-profile companies.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

It's not very French to change stuff': how Claire Tabouret's stained-glass windows cast Notre Dame in new light

Claire Tabouret's selection to design Notre Dame's stained-glass windows transformed her public profile, sparking acclaim, controversy, and expanded museum recognition.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

There's a Surefire Way to Steal the Joy From Making Art. People Always Seem to Do It.

Artists can experience long creative lulls; encouragement, community classes, and protecting personal boundaries help rebuild confidence without turning a hobby into pressure.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Is globalisation killing craftsmanship?

The rise of fast, cheap mass production erodes handmade crafts, threatening sustainability, cultural identity, and artisanal skills in a profit-driven global economy.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Artemisia Gentileschi, Michelangelo and Rembrandt bring new energy and records to New York's Old Masters sales

New York Old Masters auctions set record prices across artists—Artemisia Gentileschi, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Canaletto—bringing historically significant, newly surfaced and restituted works into public view.
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fromBerlin Art Link
2 days ago

Open Call for EMAP Residencies 2026 | Berlin Art Link

EMAP offers two-month production residencies for European digital, robotic and bio artists working collaboratively, with stipends, travel, accommodation and lab access; apply by Mar 13.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 days ago

Arts and culture supporters urged to lobby for funding at 2026 Oregon Legislature * Oregon ArtsWatch

The day after Whitelaw testified, the state economist said that Oregon now has about $300 million more to spend than previously expected. The new revenue forecast does not mean the budget is in the black, however. There are new demands for the available dollars, including $600 million in upgrades to the Moda Center to retain the Portland Trail Blazers, a recently announced $50 million shortfall in Portland Public School funding,
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fromFuncheap
2 days ago

de Young Museum Free Day (First Tuesdays)

de Young Museum offers extensive 17th–20th century collections and multiple free access options, including monthly Free First Tuesdays and Free Saturdays for Bay Area residents.
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fromThe Washington Post
2 days ago

How to celebrate Lunar New Year in the D.C. area

Lunar New Year in the DMV features Year of the Fire Horse events with lion and dragon dances, performances, festivals, and cultural activities throughout February.
fromLondon Unattached
2 days ago

The Gambler - The Coronet Theatre - Review

'Write what you know' is a familiar maxim for novelists. Perhaps this is why, when Dostoevsky was faced with the challenge of writing a novel within 30 days, he wrote The Gambler. He, too, like his protagonist, was addicted to roulette and was no stranger to debt. In fact, the novel writing wager was a high-stakes venture. If he failed,
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

When Will MoMA Dump Leon Black?

In March 2021, we published an open letter signed by over 150 artists and art workers calling on the Museum of Modern Art in New York to cut ties with its then-chairman, private equity billionaire Leon Black, for his close relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It worked, kind of. Black stepped down from his role, but still sits on the museum's board of trustees to this day.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

National Gallery of Art Acquires Stirring Artemisia Masterpiece

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has acquired a painting by Italian Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi, a historic first for the institution's collections.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

8 Art Books to Read This February

Art-related books explore diverse artists, movements, and activism across centuries and countries, showing creative production enriches perspectives and resists injustice.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Vatican Orders Removal of Fresco Depicting Far-Right Leader as Angel | Artnet News

An angel's face resembling Italy's Giorgia Meloni was painted over in a Rome church fresco by Vatican order; the original features will be restored.
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fromArtnet News
3 days ago

How Bridget Riley Redefined Abstraction in the 1960s

Bridget Riley's 1962 Untitled (based on Movement in Squares) initiated her iconic black-and-white Op Art prints, including seven prints on paper and seven Plexiglas Fragments.
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fromColossal
2 days ago

Tara Donovan's 'Stratagems' Tower Within a San Francisco Architectural Icon

Stratagems transforms recycled CDs into towering reflective sculptures that echo skyscraper architecture and comment on technological and urban evolution.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Required Reading

Historic and contemporary cultural scenes reveal shifting norms in love, gender, Black entrepreneurship, and visual arts, from coded letters to early Black-owned bookstores.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Art Critic Sebastian Smee Laid Off From the Washington Post

The Washington Post has laid off Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee and made sweeping employee cuts across its Arts section in what's been described as a "bloodbath" at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper. All of the paper's staff photographers were also eliminated, raising questions about the future of the paper's visual strategy. Staffers began receiving layoff notices on Wednesday, February 4, after weeks of rumors of a mass downsizing.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

You Can Win a Free Bob Ross Painting This Super Bowl Sunday | Artnet News

Have you ever wanted to own one of the tranquil landscapes of (1942-1995)? Now's your chance to get one for free, during a live game show airing on live shopping marketplace Whatnot ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday. The event is promising $1 billion in prizes. Ross, the late star of public television's The Joy of Painting, has captivated generations with his soothing voice and cheerful, deftly executed landscapes.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Philadelphia Museum of Art Walks Back Controversial Rebranding | Artnet News

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is reverting to its original name, dropping the 'PhAM' acronym while retaining the new griffin logo and restoring PMA branding.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Art Movements: Ekow Eshun Heads to Santa Fe

Ekow Eshun will curate SITE SANTA FE 2027; Mnuchin Gallery closes; art grants, fellowships, and high-profile exhibitions mark ongoing sector changes.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days ago

Vancouver Art Gallery show celebrates Emily Carr's affinity with nature

"I think Carr is a remarkable Modernist landscape painter who has been largely overlooked in the wider history of Modernism," Hill says. "Her intense commitment to art, despite sexist assumptions about her potential as a woman artist and her geographic isolation from the mainstream art world, are a story I think many people would find fascinating if given a chance to hear it and see the work."
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Lost Michelangelo Draws $27 Million, Trouncing Estimate and Smashing Record

A previously unknown Michelangelo red-chalk study for the Libyan Sibyl's foot sold for $27.2 million, setting a record for the artist's drawings.
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fromArtnet News
2 days ago

Jack Kerouac's Fabled 'On the Road' Scroll Goes Up for Sale

Jack Kerouac's original 120-foot scroll, typed in 1951, is consigned to Christie's with an estimated $2.5–$4 million value.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

A View From the Easel

I work outside, carving and shaping the stone. Outside my house, I have a table, an extension cord, and tools. It's very cold and I have to wear all my winter clothes. When it's too cold, I do the filing and finishing work inside after I shape it outside. I listen to all kinds of music. I listen to Eminem all the time; his albums are all my favorites. For drawings, I work at Kinngait Studios or at home on my kitchen table.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Opens Applications for Sixth Grant Cycle

Since its launch in 2021, the program has become the largest private national grantmaking initiative of its kind, supporting visual arts organizations in the United States through assessment, planning, and implementation of efforts to reduce their environmental impact through clean energy generation and energy efficiency measures. Overseen by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in association with Environment & Culture Partners and Green Design Collaborative, FCI has awarded more than $17.5 million to 249 institutions across 40 states to date.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Epstein Files Expose the Depths of the Art World's Rot

Arts leaders must reject corrupt funding and prioritize donors who demonstrate civic leadership, transparency, and ethical accountability to protect institutions and communities.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days ago

Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Lydia Ourahmane among artists confirmed for new Qatar quadrennial

The quadrennial exhibition introduces a new type of transnational, transdisciplinary program to Doha, rooted in issues that affect both Qatar and the wider region. The artists exhibiting broadly represent the diverse nationalities that live in Qatar, while their work reflects the shared geographical, environmenta
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fromArtnet News
3 days ago

Louvre Begins Restoration of Historic Crown Damaged During Heist

The Louvre will restore Empress Eugénie's deformed crown, with most diamonds and all emeralds intact, using accredited restorers under expert committee and legal oversight.
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fromwww.amny.com
3 days ago

Cashing out: Houben RT follows the money with his art and paints what it reveals | amNewYork

Houben RT's paintings expose money as modern society's defining force, replacing virtue with valuation and transforming currency into cultural theology that shapes identity and power.
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fromJuxtapoz
4 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Golden Days: Dabin Ahn @ Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles

Dabin Ahn's Golden Days transforms ceramic vessels and personal objects into meticulously painted, carved-frame still lifes exploring memory, impermanence, and blurred pictorial-sculptural boundaries.
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fromwww.7x7.com
3 days ago

Locals We Love: Bay Area artist Erin Fong has already won Super Bowl LX.

Erin Fong designed the official theme art for Super Bowl LX and created custom letterpress prints showcased at Moscone North and on game materials.
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fromAnOther
3 days ago

A Guide to the Captivating Choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker pioneered minimalist choreography centered on repetition and precision, expanding dance into galleries and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
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