Mar 21, 2022 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
Pysanka, Ukrainian egg decorating, is seeing a wave of popularity as a way of connecting with the news. Pysanka (pronounced pi-san-kuh) is a Slavic art form dating back at least to the pre-Christian era. The oldest known example was found recently in Lviv and dated to...
Mar 14, 2022 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum is racing to protect the country’s largest art collection while the Russian invasion advances west towards Lviv. The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum is the largest art museum in Ukraine, a castle-like columned beauty that...
Mar 7, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
Russian artists are speaking to oppose Putin’s war, but may suffer consequences for it. Kirill Savechenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva were the two artists set to represent contemporary Russia in La Biennale di Venezia, the glittering international art-world event...
Feb 28, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
An artificial intelligence won’t be allowed to copyright a work of art, according to the US Copyright Office. In 2019, Steven Thaler attempted to formally copyright a digital painting on behalf of an algorithm he’d made, called the Creativity Machine. The...
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...
