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...
Dec 19, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
An unconscious woman in a Soho art gallery prompted police action, but she was actually only a sculpture. She looks quite real. The woman in a yellow hoodie and black leggings, her blonde hair wild, is bent over a crafting table, apparently unconscious with her face...
Oct 17, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
Damien Hirst burns 1000 of his own signature paintings, and he says he’ll burn thousands more to make his point about the value of art. “The Currency” is a project that Hirst began six years ago. He painted 10,000 unique paintings, all abstract works of colored...
Aug 15, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
Zimbabwe gets back an iconic art collection, after over 70 years. In the 1940s, the Cyrene Mission School was the first school in Rhodesia to teach art for Black students. Their paintings were bold and vivid in line and color, showing the students’ own lives....
Jul 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending
Hidden sketches have been discovered inside a painting by Jewish Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani painted and sculpted in France in the 1910s, until his early death in 1920, at the age of 35. His art, mostly portraits and nudes in surreal, elongated...
Apr 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
An art trove found in an abandoned barn by a mechanic may be worth millions of dollars. Jared Whipple heard from a friend of his that there was something odd in a dumpster in an abandoned barn in Watertown, Connecticut. Curious, he went out and found hundreds of...
