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fromAnOther
2 days ago

The Corporeal, Bizarre Photography of Torbjrn Rdland

Torbjørn Rødland's new exhibition features a shift towards simpler photographic styles, emphasizing suggested features and everyday observations.
#salvador-daliacute
fromArtforum
1 week ago

Struggle Bus

The influx of art-world characters had come and gone, albeit in reduced numbers due to the winter storms out east, and they had done their yearly duty of complaining to me about the traffic.
Los Angeles
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago
Arts

'Reality Decay' Is at the Root of All the Bad News | Artnet News

Reality is deteriorating, influenced by fantasies and historical contexts of violence and exploitation, as illustrated by Paul Chan's artwork inspired by Sade.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
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Monkey Christ' is as good as a Picasso | Brief letters

Several brief observations and anecdotes: art similarity, quarter-zip practicality, Somerset 'Nothing Happened' inscription, time-travel plaque joke, and 'six-seven' etymology.
Berlin music
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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fromIrish Independent
3 days ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
#van-gogh
Writing
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Van Gogh's yellow: more than just a color

Yellow holds significant meaning for Van Gogh, symbolizing brilliance and modernity during his time in Arles, influencing his iconic Sunflowers series.
#contemporary-art
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago
Graphic design

Mariusz Lewandowski Painted Apocalyptic Monoliths And Lone Witnesses To Cosmic Horror, Turning Personal Nightmares Into Surreal Oil Masterpieces

fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago
Graphic design

Mariusz Lewandowski Painted Apocalyptic Monoliths And Lone Witnesses To Cosmic Horror, Turning Personal Nightmares Into Surreal Oil Masterpieces

Berlin music
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital

Egon Schiele's distinctive distorted body depictions were shaped by his relationship with Dr. Erwin von Graff, who provided access to patients at a Vienna women's clinic.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The moment I knew: I was enchanted by her painting but we never spoke. I wouldn't see her again for 55 years

A man reconnects with a childhood classmate whose exceptional artistic talent impressed him decades earlier, leading to an unexpected reunion after 55 years of separation.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, but he did not win the Best Picture award despite the film's success in other categories.
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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.
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Gus Van Sant's Adventures in Painting

When I was a kid, I was painting, as a few of my classmates were, because my teacher was a painter. We were making paintings and different things as well - silkscreens for dances or basketball games, mobiles ... It was around 1963, so a lot of different types of artistic endeavours were happening, which played into what he was teaching us. That was kind of where I started.
Film
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fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Monet and Van Gogh Masterpieces Hit the Shampoo Aisle | Artnet News

Dove launched a limited edition hair care collection featuring artworks by Monet, Cassatt, and Van Gogh, inspired by art conservators and available at Walmart.
Miscellaneous
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - David Salle "My Frankenstein" @ Spruth Magers, Los Angeles

David Salle integrates AI-generated imagery with traditional painting techniques, using machine learning models trained on his own work as new visual "givens" to respond to creatively.
#artist-studio-practice
Miscellaneous
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Beautiful Occult Hand Embroidery By Adipocere, Weaving Macabre Maidens And Danse Macabre On Line

Melbourne embroidery artist Adipocere creates intricate macabre illustrations on natural linen, blending innocence with unsettling melancholy through occult and surrealist themes exploring death, impermanence, and existential concepts.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Private Nightmares: Francisco Rodriguez @ Baert Gallery, Los Angeles

Rodriguez paints memories of vanished places using flattened compositions and muted palettes informed by historical artistic traditions, exploring contemporary anxieties through figures seeking escape from digital isolation.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Absolutely transformative': Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work

Willem de Kooning's 1948 solo exhibition at Charles Egan Gallery launched his international career, establishing him as a pre-eminent painter by the 1950s through his innovative exploration of figuration and abstraction.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Edvard Munch's formative influence on Paula Rego revealed in unearthed painting

Edvard Munch's 1951 Tate exhibition profoundly influenced 16-year-old Paula Rego, shaping her artistic development and figurative painting style for decades.
Arts
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.
#abstract-expressionism
#lucian-freud
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

As theschool's student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student Nick Dwyer. The incident was an eyebrow-raising illustration of the collective exhaustion with being surrounded by the outputs of generative AI, a fierce debate that has gripped the art world.
Higher education
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
US politics
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

Vampires in storytelling symbolize societal fears and reflect historical social and racial violence, as shown by a 1930s-set horror about community-targeted vampires.
Arts
fromwww.jezebel.com
3 weeks ago

There's Not Enough Women Beheading Men in Art Anymore

Renaissance art frequently depicted women beheading men in biblical scenes, particularly Judith and Holofernes and Salome with John the Baptist's head, representing a powerful artistic tradition largely absent from contemporary art.
Photography
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Sadie Benning's watercolors

Daily Forecasts use psychically received words as search terms to build photo-based digital collages later painted as analog-feeling 4x6 watercolor postcards.
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

It Was the Penis That Shook the World. We Talked to the Magicians Behind It.

"We Need to Talk About the Massively Hung Zombie," read a headline in Vulture.
Film
Arts
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.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Francis Bacon Portrait from Billionaire Joe Lewis's Collection Heads to Auction

Frieze New York returns to the Shed May 13-17 with strong Latin American presence; India Art Fair sees surging South Asian sales and million‑dollar works.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

John Altoon's Fever Dream Drawings

John Altoon abandoned abstraction to create dreamlike, sexually charged drawings that challenged formalist norms and emphasized imaginative, unsettling figure work.
#surrealism
Arts
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.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month 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.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Joseph Beuys review the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history

Joseph Beuys transformed wartime trauma and performative energy into provocative, animist sculptures like Bathtub that confront ecological and historical horrors.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Incredible Dark Ritual Imagery Exploring Death, Loneliness And Mythic Gates by Benjamin Malejko

A curated showcase of diverse visual works spanning illustrations, dark concept art, photography winners, humorous designs, reimagined logos, and imaginative digital and portrait art.
Arts
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Did We Get the History of Modern American Art Wrong?

Surrealism significantly influenced 1960s American art, challenging the dominant narrative that Abstract Expressionism led directly to Pop Art and Minimalism.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month 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.
Arts
fromianVisits
2 months ago

The world's most meme-famous painting is heading to Tate Britain

A major James McNeill Whistler retrospective, featuring around 150 works including iconic self-portraits and landscapes, opens at Tate Britain on 21 May 2026.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

The studio is at my house within a ranch, surrounded by nature. It's on the second floor of the house, where there's better light. My routine all day shifts between studio work and housework, including outdoor garden work. I get up a bit before 7am, drink coffee in the yard, and get morning sunshine. Then my husband and I eat breakfast and do a bit of cleaning or some chores in the garden.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Anselm Kiefer's Rustbelt Romanticism

"Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea." -Gregory Corso ST. LOUIS - At 2,340 miles, the "mighty" Mississippi River borders no fewer than eight American states. Missouri is among them, where the city of St. Louis has been the site of both tenacious (and pugnacious) expansionist gusto and, in the wake of midcentury de-industrialization, precipitous decline.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Art Movements: Knights, Presidents, and Crooks

As 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, the auction house Christie's is hosting multiple auctions later this month as part of "Americana Week." Was I the only one who didn't know that Jimmy Carter was also a painter? The lots include a painting by that president, Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington for James Madison, and Grant Wood's original study for "American Gothic" (1930).
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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.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

Daily engagement in creative activities improves physical and mental health, reduces mortality risk, and should be prioritized alongside diet and exercise.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The Importance of Making "Degenerate" Art

Art can be deliberately non-neutral and ethically engaged, refusing neutrality, civility, and institutional comfort to confront injustice and amplify marginalized voices.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet's Uncanny Canvases

From figures with multiple legs and noodles for arms to frolicking trees, Paco Pomet summons the absurd. Known for his uncanny oil paintings rendered mostly in monochrome and enlivened by colorful details of overly stretchy limbs or celestial objects, a sense of nostalgia greets surreal scenarios. The artist often derives his imagery from vintage black-and-white photographs, adding an absurd dimension to history.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Women Who Were More Than Just Picasso's Loves

Six women—Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, Jacqueline Roque—shaped Pablo Picasso's personal life and public image.
fromHyperallergic
1 month 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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