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Jidar, Rabat's annual street art festival, attracts international attention from all over the world. The festival hosted over 20 artists from Morocco and around the world.

New record for a Magritte: 79.8 million dollars!

Mar 4, 2022

René Magritte's L'empire des lumières sells for £59.4 million ($79.8 million) at Sotheby's. The previous record was $79.7 million for the artist Le Principe du Plaisir (1937).

Régis Gomez, The World of Cans

Oct 28, 2021

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The World of Cans which brings together the artist's passion for the world of miniatures and his sensitivity to the environment.

Nude Renaissance Art in School Sparks Controversy and Strike in France

Dec 14, 2023

A French school faced controversy and a resulting staff strike due to the display of a 17th-century nude Renaissance painting by Giuseppe Cesari, causing discomfort among students. The incident, which led to the intervention of France's Minister of Education and echoes a similar controversy in Florida earlier in the year, sparked a debate about the display of nude art in educational settings.

Banksy's Latest London Masterpiece Swiftly Disappeared After Debut

Dec 26, 2023

A recent artwork by Banksy, featuring a traffic stop sign with images of military drones, was swiftly removed after its installation in South London's Peckham neighborhood. The removal, witnessed and reported by locals, adds to a series of events involving the mysterious artist's work, including the recent revelation of his identity through a BBC interview.

A museum employee's furtive exposure leads to expulsion

Apr 10, 2024

Jeremy Mayer is an artist who transforms typewriters into birds

An employee at Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne clandestinely displayed his own art alongside modernist masterpieces, sparking a police investigation. Following the stunt, he was dismissed and banned from the museum.

Pop Culture

Jun 29, 2022

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Jeremy Mayer is an artist who turns old typewriters into birds. Dismantling and sorting through all of its parts, he'll create a mechanical bird-shaped collectible object. A diverse and fascinating assortment of birds, including swallows, crows, and a slew of others.

Jef Aérosol: Bridging the Gap Between Ephemeral Street Art and Lasting Impact

Jul 22, 2024

How a nursing home has elevated its residents to the status of classic works of art ?

Jean-François Perroy, known as Jef Aérosol, is a renowned 67-year-old French stencil artist born in Nantes on January 15, 1957, who has significantly influenced urban art since the 1980s with his iconic works and contributions to the street art movement.

Pop Culture

Jan 18, 2022

A care home in Oxford has photographed residents recreating famous paintings and created a calendar for the year 2022. 14 seniors volunteered to appear in the MHA Brookfield's 2022 calendar in order to raise funds for creative activities. Residents have developed an interest in the arts since moving to the home, which provides nursing and dementia care for 66 residents.

150 photographs from the collection of Richard Gere on display at Christie's

Mar 8, 2022

Richard Gere Unveils Extensive Photography Collection for Christie's Auction 150 photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Studio Museum in Harlem raises $210m for construction, endowment and operating fund

Nov 5, 2021

David Adjaye-designed building spans 82,000 sq. ft and will feature commission by Theaster Gates. Expected to open in 2024, museum holds more than 2,000 works in its permanent collection.

Matchstick Masterpiece Misses Mark: Eiffel Tower Dream Dashed

Feb 8, 2024

Richard Plaud's attempt to break the world record for the tallest matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower was disqualified by Guinness World Records due to his use of non-standard, sulfur-less matches. Despite his eight-year effort and the use of 706,900 matchsticks, his 7.19m replica did not meet the criteria for record recognition.

Environmental Protesters Target Monet's 'Spring' with Soup in Museum Incident

Feb 12, 2024

Activists splattered soup on Claude Monet's "Le Printemps" in a museum in southeast France, part of a series of protests to highlight environmental concerns. The museum intends to pursue legal action, while the group behind the act, Riposte Alimentaire, emphasizes the urgency of combating climate change for the sake of future art and society.

Climate Activists Target Botticelli's 'Venus' in Protest

Feb 15, 2024

Climate protesters covered Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' in Florence with images of flood-ravaged Campi Bisenzio to highlight climate change impacts. The demonstration by Last Generation aimed to urge government action on climate disasters.

Just Stop Oil Attacks Statue at British Museum

Oct 28, 2024

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil target ancient Greek statue Demeter at British Museum, linking climate crisis to potential famine. Protest sparks debate on art safety.

Stanislav Bojankov: The beginning is always somewhere in childhood

Mar 24, 2025

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"I have tried everything. At earlier stages I worked in more realistic forms and genres such as landscape, portrait and figurative, later some genre and stylistic changes began in the direction of abstraction and associativity, in the direction of musical sensations and vibrations, related to the abstract and subconscious recreation of sensations, feelings, emotions. In search of other channels of communication, expression and subjective perception"...

Jean-Marie Gitard (M. STRANGE), works of art with a surprise effect

Oct 1, 2022

Mr. STRANGE's works are characterized by surprise, surrealism, strangeness, eccentricity and oddity, born from an extremely productive contemplation of Google images...

Dominique Kerkhove (DomKcollage), I am self-taught

Jun 10, 2023

"The real artist is the Anonymous Arracheur (Villeglé)". It was this sentence taken from a book by Villeglé that was the trigger. From that moment on, I no longer wanted to photograph the Ready Made but to become this invisible hand and therefore an artist"...

Top 10: paintings of musicians

Aug 12, 2023

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My top ten paintings relate art and music in the way the former of these two forms of expression approaches the latter, immortalizing and making concrete its intangible sound. In fact, it was probably painting that first approached the abstract world of notes...

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French post-impressionist painter who is well-known for his use of bold colors, simplified forms, and his incorporation of themes from indigenous cultures in his work. He was born in Paris and worked as a stockbroker before devoting himself to painting...

Artemisia Gentileschi

Mar 6, 2023

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Artemisia Lomi, also called Artemisia Gentileschi, was an Italian Baroque painter who lived from 1593 to around 1656. Gentileschi is thought to be one of the best artists of the 1600s...

Manchester United legend Eric Cantona launches sport art exhibition

Jan 16, 2023

Eric Cantona, who used to play for Manchester United, has opened an exhibit about how sports heroes have changed society.

The flower paintings of Queen Victoria are being sold at auction in London

Jan 23, 2023

Queen Victoria painted a rare pair of large floral paintings that will be sold at auction next week at the London showroom of Hansons Auctioneers. People think that each painting will sell for between £8,000 and £10,000 ($9,870 and $12,340).

All Vermeer Exhibition Tickets Sold Out In Just Days

Feb 14, 2023

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam said over the weekend that there are no more tickets left for the Johannes Vermeer retrospective. This crushed the hopes of many people from all over the world who had hoped to see the first-of-its-kind show.

Inside a $40 million Botticelli painting, a hidden image was discovered

Jan 14, 2022

"Man of Sorrows" by Sandro Botticelli has been hidden from public view for hundreds of years. Painting is scheduled to be auctioned at Sotheby's on Jan. 27 with a guaranteed minimum price of $40 million.

Art Magnate Guy Wildenstein Convicted in Major Tax Evasion Case

Mar 6, 2024

Guy Wildenstein, a prominent art dealer from a notable French family, has been convicted of tax evasion, receiving a four-year sentence, half of which is under house arrest, along with a fine of 1 million euros. The legal proceedings revealed he concealed vast assets, including valuable artworks and properties, across multiple countries to avoid hefty inheritance taxes.

Censored Art: Turkish Government Intervenes in Transgender Exhibition

Jul 22, 2024

Turkish authorities banned the exhibition Turn and See Back: Revisiting Trans Revolutions in Turkey at Depo Istanbul, alleging it incited public hatred, as part of a broader crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community under President Erdoğan, who has intensified his anti-LGBTQ+ stance, leading to increased censorship and pressure on LGBTQ+ representation in Turkey.

Erick Calderon, artist and CEO made $1.4 billion selling generative art

Dec 6, 2022

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Algorithmic art is going against the market trend of NFTs going down, and Art Blocks, which has been around for five years, is one of the most popular platforms for this kind of work. Erick Calderon, an artist and CEO, is one of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022 because of this.

Fishermen at Sea by J. M. W. Turner

Apr 3, 2023

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"Fishermen at Sea" is a painting created by J. M. W. Turner in 1796. The painting is notable for its dramatic and atmospheric use of light and color, which creates a sense of tension and danger. "Fishermen at Sea" is considered to be one of Turner's early masterpieces, and it demonstrates his skill at capturing the power and majesty of nature.

Elisabeth Laplante, the freedom of abstraction

May 14, 2022

Surrealist practice taught Elisabeth Laplante to let go. This peculiarity did not leave the artist when, later, his work evolved towards abstraction...

An Italian culture official made obscene and sexist comments

Jul 7, 2023

HOW DID EMMA "MEXICANIZE" HER INTERIOR?

Italian ministry undersecretary causes scene at museum protest by making obscene and sexist comments about men and women

Lifestyle

Mar 24, 2020

Charlotte is fed up with Scandinavian decoration. Her cold, pale and bland tones are no longer made for her. Charlotte, what she likes are the warm interiors, flooded with color, the summer atmospheres. Since his trip to Tijuana, azure blues, fuchsia pinks and spicy yellows have marked his heart forever. But how to give this Mexican "warmth" without redoing the apartment from top to bottom?

Oleg Kaznacheiev - Testimonies of Ukrainian artists during the war

Jun 11, 2022

Like the rest of Ukraine, Ukrainian artists have been impacted by the war. Artmajeur here gives them the opportunity to talk about their daily lives. Today, discover the testimony of the artist Oleg Kaznacheiev from Kharkiv (Ukraine).

The new portrait of Kate Middleton and Prince William is not unanimous

Jun 27, 2022

Some claim that THE ROYAL PORTRAIT of Kate and William makes Kate appear like a "strangely dull doll" and fails to capture her "inner charm."

Did the Arc de Triomphe in Paris really put on LGBT colors?

Jun 5, 2023

Ian Padgham released a video of the Parisian monument virtually redecorated in LGBT colors, making Internet users believe that the installation was real.

The City of Hagen returns a painting by Renoir to its heirs and buys it back

Jun 8, 2023