Mar 22nd, 2023 - The New York–based nonprofit Artadia , which supports early-career visual artists through unrestricted grants, has named the recipients of its 2023 Los Angeles awards: Kang Seung Lee, Maria Maea, and Sarah Rosalena. "Our three new awardees create works that explore familial, queer, and technological histories through multidisciplinary practices," Artadia wrote in its citation. "Each artist uses archives in conjunction with innovative practices to propose new futures and possibilities." ...
Mar 22nd, 2023 - Unravel the magic of an artistic masterpiece as you embark on a journey to visit the Last Supper, a timeless creation that transcends the boundaries of time and space. Standing before this incredible work of art, you can't help but feel a sense of awe and wonder. This article takes you on a guided tour of the enigmatic Last Supper, exploring its captivating history, intricate details, and the profound emotions it evokes. The Last Supper, one of the most famous and enduring artworks in history, ...
Mar 21st, 2023 - The triennial's sixth edition, scheduled for 2026, will be co-organised by one in-house curator and another from Brazil's Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand New York City's New Museum has picked two curators to organise the next edition of its closely-watched triennial, selecting both internally and, for the first time, internationally: New Museum curator Vivian Crockett and Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) curator Isabella Rjeille. They will ...
Mar 21st, 2023 - Mix media art is the perfect combination of multiple disciplines and materials, allowing for maximum creativity. It involves taking one or more traditional art forms and adding other elements such as photography, sculpture, digital artwork, collage or anything else that can be combined to create a unique work of art. By combining different mediums into a single piece of artwork, artists can express their ideas in new and exciting ways. One popular mix media surface is wood – this material ...
Mar 21st, 2023 - In 1875, a poor artist named Claude Monet was selling his art at an auction in Paris. He was still relatively unknown, and his paintings were not slated to perform especially well. Surprisingly, though, the sale was a success , mostly due to one enthusiastic buyer who helped drive up the prices—a buyer listed in the records by the name Monet. The artist, however, wasn't buying his own paintings. And now, for the first time, a new exhibition is exploring the legacy of the early admirer who ...
Mar 20th, 2023 - "City as Studio" is on view at K11 Musea through May 14. When " City as Studio" opens today in Hong Kong, it will mark the arrival of the biggest exhibition of graffiti art the city has ever seen. Arrayed across the shopping complex of K11 Musea are more than 100 works that track graffiti's stunning trajectory, springing off the subways cars of New York and highways of Los Angeles to emerge as a global art and market force. The show has as its curator Jeffrey Deitch, the artist, writer, ...
Mar 17th, 2023 - A 1971 portrait of the artist Stanley Whitney painted by Barkley Hendricks is poised to break a record for the artists when it is offered at auction in May. The painting, titled "Stanley," picture its titular subject in street clothes standing against a gold background and smoking a cigarette. It will be offered during a single owner sale at Christie's where it's expected to fetch $5 million. If it reaches its low estimate, the painting's sale will be a record price for a work by Hendricks, who ...
Mar 15th, 2023 - Heading to the Vermeer blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum? Here are some other unmissable masterpieces in the Dutch capital For much of the 17th century, and for a few precious decades in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Netherlands was home to some of the world's greatest artists. With their genius for organisation, the Dutch have made the most of this legacy by collecting and displaying the glories of their country's Golden Age and the pioneering geniuses of European Modernism around the ...
Feb 24th, 2023 - In recent years, everyone from Vincent van Gogh to Frida Kahlo has been the subject of an "immersive experience," a type of installation that takes the great oeuvres of an artist, animates them, and projects them onto empty walls. These displays have most often examined the work of deceased artists: In addition to Kahlo and van Gogh, immersive experiences have highlighted Salvador Dalí , Gustav Klimt , Claude Monet , Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da ...
Feb 18th, 2023 - When the Tate Britain unveils the rehanging of its galleries on May 23, women artists from the 17th century to the present will be more prominently featured, the museum announced earlier this week. The new displays from national collection of British art will showcase over 800 work by more than 350 artists, including favorites, recent discoveries, and new commissions, including several large-scale contemporary installations. Notably, half the contemporary artists on display will be women, ...
Feb 15th, 2023 - Something isn't right about Johannes Vermeer 's iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring . No, it hasn't been misattributed , and no, it's not a fake. But according to Dutch art historian Pieter Roelofs , the earring was likely an imitation glass bauble, rather than a real pearl. Others have raised this possibility before, but the claim is resurfacing thanks to a new blockbuster Vermeer exhibition —the largest ever staged—at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum . Roelofs, who is ...
Feb 8th, 2023 - 'I'm going to get a beating' – artist Peter Doig on taking on Cézanne, Renoir, Monet and more Once Europe's most expensive living painter, Doig is feverishly trying to finish 10 new works that will hang alongside some old masters. No wonder he isn't getting any sleep 'I t could be a massive failure," says Peter Doig with a laugh. The 63-year-old painter is worrying about his looming show at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Only very rarely is a living artist deemed worthy of having ...
Feb 6th, 2023 - 5 Art Museums in France | Interesting Facts & Tips for Visiting Meta Description: Discover the best art museums in France with our comprehensive guide. Learn fascinating facts and tips for an unforgettable visit France is known for its rich cultural heritage and is home to some of the world's most famous art museums. In this post, we shall explore 5 of the best art museums in France and share some interesting facts and tips for visiting. Whether you are an art lover or just looking for a new ...
Jan 30th, 2023 - PARIS (AP) — France has acquired a stunning Impressionist masterpiece for its national collection of art treasures, with a donation from luxury goods giant LVMH paying the 43 million euros (nearly $47 million) for "Boating Party" by 19th-century French artist Gustave Caillebotte. The oil on canvas shows an oarsman in a top hat rowing his skiff on languid waters. The work, remarkable in its realism, delicate colors and almost cinematic perspective, as though the artist was in the boat with ...
Jan 29th, 2023 - Paris is gearing up for a new year of must-see exhibits, from a rare chance to view the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramesses II to a Harry Potter "experience" or a deep dive into rival Impressionists Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. museum will mark 50 years since the artist's death while the Centre Pompidou will explore the literary influences that inspired Serge Gainsbourg's music. Many of the exhibits this year are immersive experiences, as venues look for new and creative ways to approach the ...
Jan 22nd, 2023 - At 3.63 meters (12 feet) tall and 4.37 meters across, the painting known commonly as The Night Watch is Rembrandt's largest painting. Centuries after its creation, we're still uncovering the smallest of details in its pigments, thanks to advances in modern technology. A team of researchers from across Europe have found an unexpected molecule while studying the build-up of paint making up the famous Dutch Golden Age artwork. Thanks to the layers of pigments and other media like primers and ...
Jan 16th, 2023 - Paintings from before 1850, once a bedrock of the market, now account for just a tiny percentage of auction sales. Instead, buyers want works by living artists with a strong Instagram presence. The art market, like pretty much everything else in our culture, has become all about the here and now. The seismic shift in collecting taste from the old to the very new was summed up in December by a little-reported result in Christie's annual evening auction of master paintings in London. Highest ...
Dec 6th, 2022 - A major exhibition next year will survey the artist's fascination with the undulating trees and reunite several masterpieces for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York revealed it will hold a landmark exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh next year focused on the sinuous cypresses that dominated the Dutch artist's compositions in the last years of his life in the South of France, from his first sightings of them at Arles to works he made at the asylum at Saint Rémy. ...
Nov 26th, 2022 - Skip Paris' Musée d'Orsay and visit the Musée Moreau - Lonely Planet Why you could skip Musée d'Orsay to visit this artist's house-museum instead Why you could skip Musée d'Orsay to visit this artist's house-museum instead Travel writer and cultural correspondent Lindsay Tramuta knows all about the hidden gems of Paris, where she's been based since 2006. Here, she argues that time-pressed travelers should plan a visit to a favorite of in-the-know art lovers. ...
Nov 18th, 2022 - A seascape that fetched nearly $3m at Sotheby's this week was one of the works abandoned in an attic Van Gogh's early seascape, Beach at Scheveningen in Calm Weather (August 1882), was auctioned for $2.8m at Sotheby's, New York on 14 November. It is an important picture, since it is the artist's earliest oil landscape, painted at the fishing village of Scheveningen, near The Hague. It was done on the beach, not in the studio, and this is confirmed by grains of sand embedded in the paint. But ...