Jun 11, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
It’s finally happening – The Obama portraits are going on tour. And they’re starting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Unveiled in 2018, the official state portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have been a large draw in the National Portrait Gallery in...
Jun 4, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending, Profiles
An art feud worth over $1 billion is currently being fought in courts around the globe. Yves Bouvier is a Swiss art dealer who buys and sells art for staggering amounts of money. Dmitry Rybolovlev is a Russian billionaire who made his fortune selling fertilizer to...
May 28, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
Chadwick Boseman, the Oscar-nominated Black actor who passed away in 2020, is to be honored by his alma mater, Howard University. The historically Black university will be renaming its College of Fine Arts for him. When Boseman was a student at Howard, studying...
May 21, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
In Giverny, France is a garden that much of the world would recognize. The water lilies of the Japanese-inspired lake and gardens inspired the man who lived there – none other than the impressionist master Claude Monet. For forty-three years from 1883 to 1926, the...
May 14, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Music, News & Trending, Profiles
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan was the voice of anti-war protest and civil rights. In the 70s, he traveled through country music into contemporary gospel, an icon of the born-again Christian. Since the 1980s, he’s been touring on the Never Ending Tour with an...
May 10, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Profiles
George Haag asserts that he never intended to steal the portrait of Andy Warhol from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, back in January. “I did think about stealing it,” he said in an interview in April while awaiting his court date, “but I decided not...
Apr 30, 2021 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending
Lee Kun-Hee passed away in 2020, as the wealthiest person in South Korea. Third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul and long-time chairman of the Samsung Group, he made Samsung into one of the forerunners of smartphone manufacture and digital technology. At the time...
Apr 23, 2021 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
No one knows what the petroglyphs in Track Rock Gap mean. Deep inside the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia, the oval shapes carved into several boulders clearly meant something to the ancient artists, but a thousand years of time stand between us and a...
Apr 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
Clementine Hunter is perhaps one of the most important folk artists in American history. Born at Hidden Hill Plantation in Louisiana, she spent her youth as a farm laborer with her parents, working for the owners of the plantation. She never learned to read or write,...
Apr 9, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Bisa Butler’s stunning art quilts are vivid, bold, and lavish in detail. Made from hundreds of pieces of cloth and millions of stitches each, every one is a portrait. A painting in textiles. Originally a high school teacher, she began quilting with the leftover...
