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...
Apr 11, 2022 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Xeo Chu is 14, opening a solo London show, and already a darling of the art world, but still ‘just a kid.’ Xeo Chu’s first ever painting was a portrait of his mother, gallery owner Nguyen Thi Thu Suong. “Ears are very difficult,” is all he has to say...
Feb 21, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
A security guard in a Russian art gallery damaged a million dollar painting by doodling eyes on it, in what is being called “a lapse in sanity.” Anna Leporskaya’s avant-garde painting Three Figures was painted at some time in the 1930s, and features three...
Feb 14, 2022 | Art, Gallery, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Nader Tehrani, the Iranian-born architect of the Melbourne School of Design, will be leading the renovation of the Met’s Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries. Nader Tehrani has honed his skills in architecture all over the world. He has erected works in...