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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Combining Opposites in Creativity: Van Gogh's Contrasts

Our study demonstrates that volatility was a key source of his creativity. We find consistent evidence in the letters that Van Gogh increasingly oscillated between opposite emotional states, such as joy and sadness or between aspirations for belonging and for isolation.
Writing
fromPitchfork
3 days ago

Alvarius B.: Malarial Dream

Sun City Girls' music expanded quickly, mixing cross-cultural influences and sharp instrumental chops, creating a unique sound that left a significant mark on various genres.
Music production
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fromThe Nation
4 days ago

Revisiting the Advent of the Abstract

Abstract art's rise is redefined as a practice of self-taught artists rather than solely a product of the avant-garde or historical tradition.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

Did AI just solve the mystery of one of El Greco's most enigmatic paintings?

Using artificial intelligence, researchers analyzed The Baptism of Christ at the microscopic level, looking for trends in the texture of the paint at the resolution of a single paintbrush bristle.
Philosophy
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

inside bofill taller de arquitectura's color-coded labyrinths and constructed dreamscapes

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura redefines architecture through interdisciplinary collaboration, emphasizing political urgency and spatial imagination over modernist rigidity.
#guernica
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Picasso's Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain's partisan squabbles | Maria Ramirez

Spain commemorates the return of Picasso's Guernica, highlighting its significance in democracy and ongoing political tensions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Picasso's Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain's partisan squabbles | Maria Ramirez

Spain commemorates the return of Picasso's Guernica, highlighting its significance in democracy and ongoing political tensions.
Science
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

From Cajal to Dali and Lorca: The drawings that revealed the substance of the human mind and inspired Surrealism

Santiago Ramon y Cajal discovered the structure of the nervous system and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, influencing both science and art.
#surrealism
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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

Surrealism, Defined: What to Know About One of Art's Most Misused Terms

Surrealism is a rebellious philosophy of life expressed through literature and art, emerging from discontent with societal norms post-World War I.
Arts
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

Surrealism, Defined: What to Know About One of Art's Most Misused Terms

Surrealism is a rebellious philosophy of life expressed through literature and art, emerging from discontent with societal norms post-World War I.
Photography
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 weeks 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.
Film
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks 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.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Marcel Duchamp: The mind above the hand | amNewYork

Abstraction in art emerges through radical recalibrations, with Marcel Duchamp exemplifying a shift from representation to conceptual exploration.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
3 weeks ago

Dali's largest work acquired by Dali Museum in Florida

A unique assemblage of Salvador Dali's theatrical set for a 1939 ballet has been acquired by the Dali Museum, including the largest work by the artist.
Fashion & style
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

Schiaparelli at the V&A: the designer you've probably not heard of

Elsa Schiaparelli, a pioneering fashion designer, is celebrated for her innovative designs and influence in the fashion world, particularly between the two world wars.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History

Duchamp's 'Fountain' is the message that brings us the news. No longer was art judged by skill, craftsmanship, even beauty - it could be anything an artist called art.
Arts
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

In "Bomarzo," the Renaissance Man is a Monster

"One must put himself in the period... crime had a certain familiarity from its repetition through time.... That's what they were like, unscrupulous. So was I. And since we are speaking about it, so was the Renaissance."
History
#salvador-daliacute
Berlin music
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

From saint to raver: Rosalia opens Lux' world tour by exploring all her incarnations

Rosalia's Lux world tour opener in Lyon showcased an ambitious, theatrical production that successfully translated her sophisticated, maximalist album to stage with authority and artistic vision.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

In Spain, a request to move Picasso's famous Guernica' to the Basque Country sparks national row

The Basque government has made the transfer of Picasso's painting a matter of regional pride, viewing it as a gesture of historical remembrance and symbolic reparation toward the Basque people.
Arts
Barcelona
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Barcelona Architecture City Guide: 30 Buildings and Places from Gaudi to Today

Barcelona's architecture evolved from Gothic foundations through Modernist experimentation to contemporary design, each era reshaping urban form and establishing global architectural influence.
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

How Elsa Schiaparelli Turned Surrealism Into High Fashion | Artnet News

Schiaparelli's timeless designs spun glamor out of the avant-garde, showcasing a unique blend of high fashion and artistic expression that continues to inspire.
Arts
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Did you solve it? You won't believe these optical illusions!

Olivier Redon creates optical illusions using perspective manipulation, inverted geometry, and ambiguous visual interpretation to deceive perception.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain

The Reina Sofia's new rehang opens, quite pointedly, with a painting of a detained man sitting, head bowed and wrists shackled, as he waits for the arbitrary hand of institutional bureaucracy to decide his fate. The picture, Document No , was painted by Juan Genoves in 1975, the year Francisco Franco died and Spain began its transition to democracy after four decades of dictatorship.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Frida, Diego, and Raphael

The largest-ever Raphael exhibition in the U.S. opened at The Met, showcasing 170 works over eight years.
Travel
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

This sun-soaked Spanish city is the most exciting European destination for 2026

Valencia in 2026 offers a rare total solar eclipse, Las Fallas UNESCO anniversary, major sports events and strong coastal, walkable appeal amid record tourism.
#picasso
fromCosmopolitan
2 months ago

These Six Couples Are So In Love in Barcelona

Oskar: We matched on Tinder in Bali the day before he left, so we didn't physically meet. He was living in Melbourne at the time, and I actually had plans to move there. Santi: A month later, I asked him on a date. We watched Bridesmaids at an outdoor cinema. Oskar: I was obsessed. But I didn't have a permanent place to live... Santi: ...which is when my friend and I found a three-bedroom and needed another roommate. Oskar: We moved in as friends. Santi: At least, that was the plan. But that first night, I was really cold and I found my way into his room.
Relationships
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fromHyperallergic
4 weeks ago

Juan Usle's Childhood Shipwrecks

Juan Uslé's retrospective at Museo Reina Sofía showcases his evolution from a traumatic childhood memory to a vibrant artistic career.
Renovation
fromColossal
1 month ago

Alvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

Álvaro Urbano sculpts plants from metal and paint to preserve fleeting moments of nature that would otherwise disappear within days or minutes.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

At the end of the day [it's] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. You see what you want to see. You might think it's speaking to you, but it's just your imagination.
Books
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

The year of Andre Malraux: France salutes its pioneering intellectual with exhibitions and more

At the official launch last November, the current culture minister Rachida Dati described the imperative behind the programme as not just celebrating an uncommon visionary but the "burning relevance" of his legacy: "a commitment to continuing to nurture this demanding idea of what culture is".
France news
#antoni-gaudi
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Goya's last mystery is called Rosario Weiss

Goya's Black Paintings inspired Sergio del Molino's book exploring the artist's legacy through the story of Rosario Weiss, the daughter of Leocadia Zorrilla who became Goya's student and artistic heir.
History
fromColossal
2 months ago

A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism

Leonora Carrington created dreamlike Surrealist imagery, defied upper-class expectations, engaged with Parisian Surrealism, and rejected being a muse while developing an independent artistic career.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

inside the surrealist universe of late artist pedro friedeberg, creator of the iconic hand chair

Pedro Friedeberg, Mexican surrealist artist and architect known for ornate drawings and hand-shaped chairs, passed away at 90, leaving behind six decades of work blending gothic architecture, optical patterns, and symbolism.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Ambiguity Reigns in Olaf Hajek's Mysterious Illustrations

Olaf Hajek's work emphasizes connections over differences, blending nature and culture to create dreamlike, ambiguous compositions.
Barcelona
fromEuro Weekly News
1 month ago

The week Barcelona becomes the centre of the future

Barcelona hosts the 20th Mobile World Congress with over 110,000 visitors expected, showcasing AI breakthroughs, space technology, and future mobility innovations while generating approximately €585 million for the local economy.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Schiaparelli review it's cocktail o'clock with fashion's surreal goddess who out-lobstered Dali and turned a polar bear pink

Naked mermaids and prancing horses, silk carrots and unshelled peanuts, gilded elephant trunks, drums and masks are just a few of the buttons. The V&A's lavish spring show is a weird and wonderful tumble down the rabbit hole that is Schiaparelli, fashion's house of surrealism.
Arts
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Furious row erupts over Madrid site of one of Robert Capa's most important pictures

Madrid's conservative city council abandoned plans for a Robert Capa museum at a historically significant bombing site, instead converting it into a youth center with minimal historical commemoration.
#joan-miro
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month 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.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
1 month 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
fromColossal
1 month ago

Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L'il Tableaux

Artist Pejac uses graph paper's geometric grid to create trompe-l'œil illusions that challenge spatial perception and explore depth and movement beyond traditional two-dimensional representation.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month 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
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Queer, Surrealist Lovers Who Defied the German Occupation

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were visionary gender non-conforming photographers whose collaborative avant-garde work remains radically innovative, though they remained largely unknown during their lifetimes.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Spain's Cosmic Mother of Modernism

MADRID - The most famous portrait of Maruja Mallo depicts the artist covered from head to toe in seaweed. She is crowned and draped with long, rope-like strands of kelp, her arms raised triumphantly like an all-powerful marine goddess. This unconventional photograph, snapped in 1945 by the poet Pablo Neruda on a Chilean beach, was no doubt carefully orchestrated by the Spanish artist, who viewed herself as an extension of her unique work, where female energy is a conduit for natural and even cosmic forces.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month 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.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

How Wifredo Lam Made Surrealism More Surreal Than the Surrealists | Artnet News

An exhibition of Wifredo Lam is about as safe a bet as the Museum of Modern Art can place and still plausibly say that it's a bet on expanding the canon. The Cuban artist is one of the most famous painters of the 20th century, featured in almost every single key show about Surrealism. MoMA acquired his famous painting The Jungle in 1946, a few years after he made it.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Dark Humor Decals For Everyday Absurdity: Amazing Acrylic Paintings by Javier Mayoral

Handcrafted Artful Embroideries of Everyday Products by Alicja Kozowska Well of Eternity: Stunning Sci-Fi Concept Artworks of Sung Choi Traveller's Joy The Key To The Countryside Beautiful Shell Adverts From The Mid-1950s These Animal Illustrations Accurately Express Our Monday Blues And Friday Feels Dark, Surreal And Moody Photo Works By Simon Kerola Artist Replaces Jurassic Park Dinosaurs With Those From The Show Dinosaurs "Deathmask Divine": The Superb Dark Paintings of Bahrull Marta
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

united visual artists animates gaudi's casa batllo facade through embodied motion

Matt Clark's Hidden Order projects dynamic audiovisual mapping onto Casa Batlló, integrating motion-capture choreography and original score to reveal hidden architectural systems.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months 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.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

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.
Arts
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On's layered textured paintings of white dresses capture wind and light; her solo exhibition runs March 3–29 at Gallery 9 in Los Altos.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On presents layered white-dress paintings conveying wind and light; San Mateo County Libraries seeks a Maker in Residence for a six-month STEAM residency.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

How Artists Captured the Strange World of Sleep

Artists have depicted sleep's bliss, disorders, mythology, and mortality across 19th–20th century artworks, revealing cultural, scientific, and emotional dimensions.
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Mallorca Welcomes a New International Art Fair | Artnet News

A new art fair with a distinctive approach and locale is joining the international art world for the spring calendar: Art Cologne Palma Mallorca. While Mallorca is often framed as an idyllic Mediterranean escape, it has quietly developed into a vibrant art hub, and the fair builds on that momentum, positioning the island as a crossroads for international and regional art scenes.
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