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Philippe Casaubon, who has always been surrounded by images throughout his life, has developed a very personal artistic research in which works of art escape comparison, intention, imitation, repetition , modeling and compensation to favor pure instinct ...

Johnny Depp will direct a movie about the Italian painter Modigliani

Aug 17, 2022

After going to court for slander, an actor will work with Al Pacino to make a movie about an artist's life: "It was a hard life, but in the end, they won."

A traveling museum about climate change shows up in New York and wants to find a permanent home

Nov 4, 2022

The Climate Museum's pop-up show in Manhattan aims to get people to take action and raise money for a permanent location.

A painting of the fashion designer Virgil Abloh sold for $ 1 million

Dec 14, 2021

A painting of Virgil Abloh sells for $1 million at Art Basel Miami. The artist, Rob Prior, painted the portrait in real-time. Daniel Petit, a real estate executive, bought the artwork.

A UNESCO report worries about an unprecedented crisis in the cultural sector

Feb 9, 2022

A Photographer in Nigeria Unveils the Truth and incredible secret About His Photos

UNESCO report warns of "unprecedented crisis in the cultural sector". Ten million jobs lost in the creative industries during the coronavirus pandemic. UNESCO urges governments to strengthen labor protections for the creative sector. Arts funding is frequently cut by governments or ignored by private investors. By 2020, the global gross value of the creative industry will have decreased by $750 billion.

Lifestyle

Oct 11, 2021

Nigerian photographer Ibor Edosa Victor shares behind-the-scenes photos of his work. Shows how he takes photos on a "low budget" or in less-than-ideal lighting conditions. Has over 209k Instagram followers and shows fans how to get the perfect shot.

Buy a Banksy, get a building

Sep 5, 2022

A Banksy mural in Los Angeles that is worth more than $16 million and comes with the whole building is going up for auction.

A popular TikTok joke about the theft of the Mona Lisa has confused many people

Jan 13, 2023

A joke TikTok about the Mona Lisa being stolen has gone viral, making many people confused because they thought it was real.

Most exciting discovery in a century of a Roman mosaic in a field

Dec 1, 2021

Mosaic is the first-ever uncovered in the UK depicting images from Homer's Iliad. It would have adorned an imposing eating and leisure hall within a big villa complex. The mosaic has been damaged by later building work and bears scorch marks from fires. The chamber was the focal point of a huge villa complex built in the late third or early fourth centuries AD

A Russian artist prosecuted for a giant poo!

Jan 20, 2022

A Russian artist left a massive poop sculpture on a sacred burial ground in St. Petersburg—and now he's in big trouble...

Following a rift with Tate, a friend of Francis Bacon reroutes a donation to France

Apr 19, 2022

Joule donated archive of Bacon's works to Tate in 2004. He will instead donate the masterpieces to the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

A controversial painting was vandalized in a Parisian museum

May 9, 2023

A controversial painting by Swiss artist Miriam Cahn was vandalized with spray paint on Sunday, the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art museum said. The painting was part of an exhibition in Paris.

Muhammad Ali, a boxer but also a contemporary artist who is worth a million dollars today

Oct 12, 2021

A recent auction sold 26 of Muhammad Ali's rare works for almost $1 million. The total sale price was $945,524, which was three times the appraisers' expectations. Fans were taken aback when Bonhams shared Ali's artwork on Instagram.

Discovered Beneath a Van Gogh Painting is a Self-Portrait

Jul 18, 2022

X-rays performed on a Van Gogh painting revealed a previously undiscovered self-portrait on the reverse. A bearded man's face was discovered beneath layers of glue and cardboard on the back of an early work.

How do you tell a story with a happy ending?

Mar 15, 2023

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A nineteenth-century cultural, literary and artistic movement, which, revealed only later in its identity, will illustrate to us, through some of its masterpieces, the metaphor of life in which each of us has stumbled, aimed at taking on the guise of a figurative tale, intent on facing the darkness of temptation and the limitations of vanitas...

Vandals paint white a huge sculpture of a black woman

May 24, 2023

Last week, vandals in England spray-painted white a 10-foot-tall sculpture of a sitting Black woman that was made by Tschabalala Self.

A man paid $ 30 for a drawing worth $ 50 million!

Nov 23, 2021

ABEL BURGER: Life course, artist course

A Massachusetts man paid $30 for a drawing. It could be a genuine Dürer worth $50 million. The artwork is now on display at Agnews Gallery, which is looking for purchasers. A former curator of German Prints and Drawings at The British Museum agrees the drawing is genuine. Experts believe it is a copy of Dürer's The Virgin among a multitude of animals.

Artist Portraits

Feb 19, 2020

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At 35, Abel Burger has already lived many lives, which today come to fuel a protean creation. To achieve a form of letting go, we had to start by multiplying experiences.

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.

$600,000 for a giant statue of Elon Musk as a goat

Nov 29, 2022

Crypto entrepreneurs just spent $600,000 to send a giant statue of Elon Musk as a goat to Tesla's headquarters. Musk's successful marketing of Dogecoin may have been the inspiration for the marketing stunt.

Beirut builds a museum to hold a hidden collection of art

Jan 17, 2023

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The Beirut Museum of Art is being built in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, two years after an explosion caused billions of dollars of damage.

The Girl with a Flute is no longer a Vermeer painting!

Oct 11, 2022

A Vermeer at the National Gallery of Art loses its name, which raises new questions about the master painter.

A work, a story - Lines of water by Alexander Shumtsov (Votsmush)

Sep 14, 2015

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What a strange name! Or rather what a strange pseudonym! Votsmush is actually the anagram of Shumtsov, his real last name. Above all, he likes to turn things upside down, it has even become a principle of life for this watercolor artist graduated from the Crimean School of Fine Arts and who currently lives between Sevastopol and Moscow.

Vanity: a pictorial genre

Jul 24, 2022

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Vanity refers to a specific type of still life, which, through the inclusion of characteristic symbolic objects, such as, for example, skulls, hourglasses, and luxury goods, aims to remind the viewer, both of the inexorable passing of time, and the future advent of death, and, consequently, also of the futility of ephemeral earthly goods and pleasures...

A Renaissance against racism...

Feb 22, 2023

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Larsen's novel seems to continue in the point of view expressed, roughly thirty years later, by Jacob Lawrence's painting, which, titled Taboo (1963), is one of the many works created by the artist during the civil rights movement, aimed at expressing, through the depiction of two mixed couples intent on getting married, all the aversion felt by the master to taboos concerning marriages between people of different races...

A Fabergé egg was allegedly discovered by US officials on a $300 million yacht seized from a Russian oligarch

Jul 25, 2022

Fabergé egg may have been found on yacht seized from Russian oligarch, says US Deputy Attorney General. Fabergé eggs were favored by the Romanovs before the Bolshevik Revolution.

Thieves steal a multi-million dollar NFT collection from a gallery owner.

Jan 5, 2022

Todd Kramer had 15 NFTs worth $2.2 million stolen in a phishing scam. The gallery owner was able to reclaim some pieces with the help of buyers and the NFT platform OpenSea. Some people have started making NFT's of art that they did not create.

In a Paris auction, a rare Michelangelo drawing might reach $33 million

Apr 7, 2022

A drawing by Michelangelo unearthed in 2019 will be auctioned next month. Christie's estimates it could fetch up to 30 million euros ($33 million). The drawing is estimated to date around the 15th century. It is one of the rare works by the Italian artist in private hands.

In Florida, a Rolls-Royce destroys a $3 million Damien Hirst sculpture!

Apr 13, 2023

The sculpture, which is part of a set that Hirst debuted at the 2017 Venice Biennale, is said to be worth $3m

The MSCHF group made a Louis Vuitton handbag visible with a microscope

Jul 3, 2023

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Designers say that the bright green accessory is a criticism of the fashion business.

Australian aboriginal art: Millennial art threatened with disappearance

Jul 11, 2017

The first aboriginal cave paintings date back to the dawn of time (more than 50,000 years ago). First known art forms, perpetuated on their original medium (rock, sand, etc.) until about twenty years ago and using "modern" techniques (canvas, acrylic, etc.) since the 1970s, they are now threatened with extinction.

A work, a story: Christian Girault, "The only difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist"

Sep 14, 2015

Patryk Kuleta, the ability to unearth beauty

It was in 1995 that Christian Girault visited the south of Bolivia where the desert landscapes are sometimes mind-blowing. He didn't know it at the time, but part of these deserts is called the Dali Desert, due to the improbable shapes of its rocks, reminiscent of elements from Salvador's paintings.

Artist Portraits

Aug 24, 2022

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Patryk Kuleta's artworks demonstrate the artist's distinct ability to perceive things, and beauty, in places where others see little or nothing....

A doctor tries to sell an NFT X-ray of a Bataclan survivor

Jan 25, 2022

The patient survived the November 2015 Islamic State attack on Paris' Bataclan concert hall, but she never consented to the sale of an image of her wound.

A painting by Kandinsky has set a record by selling for $44.5 million

Mar 3, 2023

The photo of Pope Francis wearing a fashionable puffy jacket is a fake!

This oil on canvas painting by Vassily Kandinsky from 1910 shows the German village of Murnau in bright colors.

Lifestyle

Mar 29, 2023