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fromOpen Culture
1 day ago

How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

The work of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning wound up as part of a secret CIA program during the height of the Cold War, aimed at promoting American ideals abroad.
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fromwww.remodelista.com
20 hours ago

Paint Colors With Cult Followings: Architects' Favorite Paint Picks

Architects and designers frequently choose specific colors for their versatility and universal appeal in various home styles.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 days ago

For Frode Bolhuis, The Figure Contains Life's Mysteries and Its Multitudes - Hi-Fructose Magazine

When I finished art school, I thought I was going to do monumental sculpture, big works, and I did for a while. But what I started loving the most-actually always loved the most-was the start, where you figure out what you want to say.
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fromOpen Culture
3 days ago

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and Many More

Hollywood faces a crisis with declining interest in films, prompting a search for re-enchantment through experimental cinema.
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fromDefector
3 days ago

Monet, Through The Iris | Defector

Claude Monet's 'The Path through the Irises' captivates viewers with its size and contrasting colors, drawing them into its presence.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
3 days ago

This Artist Creates Dark Wood-Burned Illustrations Exploring Identity And The Human Psyche

Robb is an Italian artist known for his intricate pyrography, creating dark, psychological imagery that explores themes of identity and isolation.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
6 days ago

Kyle Cobban Draws From The Unknown - Hi-Fructose Magazine

"It's an amalgamation of the Chicago neighborhood aesthetic with a Bulls fan, quite literally. It's kind of on the nose, but that's how I juxtapose the elements of my work, with the structure of a home and then a figure who is around or in the home."
Chicago Bulls
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
11 hours ago

Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art

Yale came to me and said there isn't an overarching book about the history of printmaking; they wanted it to be about the printed image. There are a lot of books about printing-about the history of journalism or the history of books, the printing press and the printed word-but not so much about the printed image and its processes. So that was my challenge.
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fromDesign Milk
15 hours ago

An Argument for Interior Design with Neuroaesthetics in Mind

Interior design should prioritize functional aesthetics to enhance mental health, creativity, and interpersonal connections through a new field called Neuroarchitecture.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
15 hours ago

"You can't enter the same river twice" by Photographer Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho's work explores impermanence and transformation through photography and graphic printing methods.
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fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

Labeling human-made content is essential as AI-generated works proliferate, creating confusion and skepticism among audiences.
#photography
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago
Photography

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

fromColossal
2 weeks ago
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Ben Zank's Portraits Teeter Between Surrealism and the Mundane

Ben Zank's photography captures faceless subjects in ordinary settings, evoking complex emotions through uncanny realism.
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 months ago
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In A World Where All Silver is Gold

Silver-coated bodies shine as untouchable armour while revealing underlying fragility, questioning uniform perfection and what remains valuable when all surfaces glitter alike.
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fromThe Phoblographer
2 days ago

The C-Word That Every Photographer Should Hate

Photographers should reject the term 'creator' as it undermines the artistic value of photography and conflates it with commercial content.
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fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Gideon captures the essence of time and change in photography, focusing on the ephemeral rather than traditional beauty or detail.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Ben Zank's Portraits Teeter Between Surrealism and the Mundane

Ben Zank's photography captures faceless subjects in ordinary settings, evoking complex emotions through uncanny realism.
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fromArtnet News
9 hours ago

Are We Too Reverent of Marcel Duchamp? | Artnet News

Marcel Duchamp's influence on art remains complex and enigmatic, challenging perceptions and interpretations of modern art.
#art
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator, a painting by Hermione von Preuschen, symbolizes the transience of power and fame, returning to Berlin after over a century of controversy.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator, a painting by Hermione von Preuschen, symbolizes the transience of power and fame, returning to Berlin after over a century of controversy.
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fromBig Think
2 days ago

"Agreeable Gray": How color vanished from modern life (and why it's coming back)

The most popular house paint colors in the U.S. are predominantly gray, beige, or off-white, reflecting a trend known as 'the grayening.'
fromArtforum
1 week ago

Pat Steir, Whose "Waterfalls" Dazzled, Dies at 87

I wanted to be a great artist, not in the slang use of 'great,' but fantastic—reaching the soul of other people. This ambition drove Pat Steir throughout her life.
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fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer

Rauschenberg valued stillness as a form of energy, finding inspiration in Newhall's photographs despite their contrasting kinetic nature.
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fromArtnet News
15 hours ago

How Kees van Dongen Shaped Fauvism

Kees van Dongen was a pivotal figure in Fauvism, known for his experimental use of color and dynamic portraiture.
fromHyperallergic
6 hours ago

Jasper Johns Keeps Looking

Jasper Johns seemed to reject the tortured, in-the-moment 'I' of Abstract Expressionism, ironically commenting on the heroism and spontaneity associated with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in his early work.
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fromDesign Milk
5 days ago

OUTSIDERS Investigates the Space Between Society and Solitude

Modern design challenges conventional public seating to enhance social interaction and presence in urban spaces.
#contemporary-art
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago
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An Artist Paints Aristocratic Frogs, Masked Lemurs And Weird Florals In Lush Gouache, Turning Classical Portraiture Into Surreal Dreams

fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago
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An Artist Paints Aristocratic Frogs, Masked Lemurs And Weird Florals In Lush Gouache, Turning Classical Portraiture Into Surreal Dreams

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fromHyperallergic
18 hours ago

Josh Kline Misses the Mark

Artists face an affordability crisis in New York City, and solutions require action rather than relocation.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

The Jewish Museum presents the first US exhibition focusing on Paul Klee's late work, highlighting his response to 1930s fascism.
fromArtnet News
1 day ago

They Painted the American West. History Painted Them Out | Artnet News

These women artists were in museum collections, but they were barely shown. The challenge was to do enough research to find common themes and bring them together.
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fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

The Unbearable Strangeness of Being

Cinga Samson's paintings evoke a haunting, incomprehensible world reflecting historical scars and spiritual alertness through unsettling imagery.
#salvador-daliacute
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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Required Reading

Calida Rawles' art explores the duality of water as both healing and destructive within the Black diaspora's history.
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fromArtnet News
6 days ago

Dealer David Schrader's Case for a More Fluid Art Market: 'Volume Begets Volume' | Artnet News

The art market is stabilizing, with optimism growing, particularly in the secondary market and private auctions.
fromJuxtapoz
1 week ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC

"These works are an exploration of the human body's elasticity and capacity to metamorphose. Informed by my own experience of pregnancy and the birth of my first child last year, these paintings are a meditation on physiological transformation and the body's underlying animalistic and mammalian nature."
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fromColossal
6 days ago

Symbiotic Communion Flourishes in Laura Berger's Expansive Paintings

Laura Berger continues her explorations of communion in a suite of staggering paintings that place her signature minimal figures in intimate fellowship with one another and the earth.
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
6 days ago

Perceptrum and the Emergence of Augmented Painting: When the Canvas Begins to Listen - KALTBLUT Magazine

Perceptrum redefines painting by allowing touch, creating a sensory dialogue that transforms the relationship between observer and artwork.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Six great reads: Mondrian's hidden inspiration, the friendship secret and heat for Heated Rivalry

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. Trump called me down to the Oval Office,' John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland ' The US president's friend Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, is now making deals in the island. Guardian investigations correspondent Tom Burgis explored the reasons behind Trump and Lauder's fixation with Greenland. Read more
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

A View From the Easel

Creating molds from high-heeled shoes in a shared workspace enhances precision and organization in the artistic process.
#artist-studio-practice
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild the week in art

Estonia's modernist painter Konrad Magi is featured in an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from March to July.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Seurat and the Sea Is Postcard Perfect

Seurat painted over half of his 45 lifetime canvases as seascapes during Channel coast summer trips, intending them to refresh his eyes from studio work through pointillist technique.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour

A new monograph repositions Armenian-Lebanese painter Haroutiun Galentz as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work transcends national boundaries and demands cross-border interpretation.
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fromElite Traveler
3 weeks ago

AI Art: Is It Any Good? The Experts Weigh In

AI art represents a transformative cultural moment comparable to the Renaissance printing press, fundamentally changing artistic creation and expression.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

Victor Vasarely's crumbling Aix legacy to be restored

The longer we wait, the more difficult it will become to remedy the damage. Since 2019, state funding had all but dried up, forcing the foundation to auction works to raise funds to continue the restoration of both the iconic building and its many site-specific works.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Remembering Dora Maurer, Isaiah Zagar, and Peter Stampfli

Multiple artists across diverse disciplines and geographies recently passed away, each leaving significant contributions to visual arts, community engagement, and artistic innovation.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

'Abstract Expressionists: The Women' Rewrites a Male-Dominated Canon

In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe's first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can't make the trip to the Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, or FAMM), the American Federation of the Arts (AFA) has arranged the next best thing: a blockbuster touring exhibition about women artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, featuring some of the highlights of the FAMM collection.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months 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.
#studio-routine
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

An artist in a Bronx studio paints multiple figurative works simultaneously, drawing inspiration from local institutions, music, and the neighborhood's vibrancy.
#surrealism
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

A small, adaptable studio provides calm, supports varied artistic practices—drawing, performance preparation, archival work—and becomes a communal space for collaboration and care.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Paints Smoky Lounges And Quiet Strangers, Letting Halffinished Details Turn Viewers Into Coauthors Of The Scene

A wide-ranging visual roundup showcases creative reinterpretations, vintage design, activist art, photography, illustration, and humorous cultural works spanning contemporary and historical styles.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Things That Really Matter

Artists and communities mobilize memorials, protests, and cultural expression to resist state violence, political aggression, cultural censorship, and labor suppression.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

8 signs you appreciate art, music, and culture on a deeper level than most people - Silicon Canals

Some people experience art deeply, reacting emotionally and perceiving subtle artistic cues that reveal heightened sensitivity and meaningful connections to creative expression.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

Home studio constraints shape artistic labor and conceptions of women's spaces, intertwining domestic routines, community interactions, and concentrated multi-project practice.
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fromColossal
2 months 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.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Edward Zutrau Was a Chromatic Rebel

Edward Zutrau fused reductive Abstract Expressionism with Japanese ink-painting principles to create a distinctive, underrecognized mid-20th-century painting practice.
fromHyperallergic
2 months 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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