Feb 22, 2023 | Art, News & Trending
Calvin and Hobbes author Bill Watterson is back in the storytelling craft, after a 28-year-long hiatus. Watterson has led a quiet life since Calvin and Hobbes, avoiding a public career on the coattails of his creation. He doesn’t sign autographs, speak at...
Feb 13, 2023 | Art, News & Trending
Art for the moon is taking off in March, in the form of an engraving on gold by artist Sacha Jafri. Jafri’s work, “We Rise Together — By the Light of the Moon,” is scheduled to fly into space on a United Launch Alliance rocket powered by...
Feb 6, 2023 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
Ai Weiwei is featured in one of the largest exhibitions in the UK in nearly a decade, with his large scale works on display in the Design Museum in London later this year. Ai Weiwei grew up with his father in political exile, and has always been openly critical of the...
Jan 30, 2023 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
A Hercules fresco from Herculaneum is one of the 60 pieces of illegally trafficked artifacts being returned to Italy by the United States. Dozens of artifacts, between 1500 and 3000 years old, were recovered from private collections in the past few years. Found in...
Jan 23, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
Reinventing paintings is nothing new. Artists have been riffing off each other’s art since art was invented. It’s a way to use someone else’s ideas to add depth to your own, like quoting someone who inspires you. And no art should be immune from...
Jan 16, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
The Detroit Institute of Arts is in a legal fight with the alleged owner of a van Gogh painting on display there. The painting, titled “The Novel Reader” or “The Reading Lady,” depending on which art history book you read, is not one of Vincent van Gogh’s better...
