Art History
Painting: the faces of the moon
Oct 31, 2023
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Once the sun goes to sleep, returning every night to the same bed, he feels the absence of the woman he will never meet, the moon, who, waking up in her place, leaves, besides the messy sheets, a strong absence...
Art News
Centre Pompidou Renovation Faces Financial Challenges and Delays
Jun 11, 2024
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The Centre Pompidou's five-year renovation faces financial challenges, with costs now at €358 million ($383 million) and an additional €207 million ($223 million) needed. Chairman Laurent Le Bon has raised €39 million ($42 million) but must secure €168 million ($180 million) by early 2025, amid governance issues and declining visitor numbers.
Artist Portraits
Bogdan Dide, the mystery of a woman's face
Nov 16, 2022
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3 minutes read
Bogdan Dide uses various techniques in his work, the choice of one or another depending on the goals set. The main theme is portraiture...
Art News
NOMA faces heated controversy over hiring white woman
Jul 4, 2023
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3 minutes read
The New Orleans Art Museum is facing a heated controversy over the hiring of a white woman as curator of African art.
Artist Portraits
Frob, the artistic investigation that transforms the human face
Apr 13, 2022
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4 minutes read
Line, spontaneous writing and experimentation characterize the work of self-taught artist Frob, who aims to generate a multitude of experiences with the human face...
Art News
Questions of Authenticity: LACMA's Korean Exhibition Faces Backlash
Jul 5, 2024
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LACMA is under fire after Korean art experts declared several paintings in its “Korean Treasures” exhibition as forgeries, leading to the cancellation of the catalogue and raising questions about the museum's vetting process.
Art News
Centre Pompidou Faces Turmoil as 2025 Closure Sparks Controversy
Dec 11, 2023
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2 minutes read
The upcoming five-year closure of Centre Pompidou for renovations in 2025 has sparked employee strikes and controversy, with unions demanding job security guarantees and a dedicated location for museum activities during the closure. The budget for the renovation has risen to €262 million, and the reopening program is expected to be finalized by June 2024, while the French government insists on a complete shutdown for modernization.
Pop Culture
Timothée Chalamet's face is visible in the greatest works of art
Feb 8, 2022
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2 minutes read
Timothée Chalamet's face has been Photoshopped onto famous paintings. The "Call Me by Your Name" actor has inspired painters as far back as Leonardo da Vinci.
Art News
Adobe Faces Backlash from Ansel Adams Trust Over AI Art
Jun 6, 2024
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The Ansel Adams Trust criticized Adobe for selling AI-generated images mimicking Adams’s style, violating Adobe Stock’s terms of use. Despite Adobe's removal of the content, the trust called for proactive prevention of IP misuse, highlighting ongoing frustrations in the creative sector regarding AI in art.
Art News
Urgent call for help: Louvre faces restoration challenges and overtourism
Jan 24, 2025
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2 minutes read
The Louvre, facing record overtourism and structural problems, requires a major renovation estimated at €500 million to protect its works and improve the visitor experience. While measures such as limiting visitors to 30,000 per day have been taken, urgent funding and sustainable solutions are needed to preserve this global cultural icon.
Art News
New York Gallery Confronts Controversy Over Gaza Letter, Faces Apology Graffiti
Dec 7, 2023
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A New York gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, reported vandalism after graffiti apologizing for its founders' stance on a controversial Artforum letter about Gaza was found on its windows. The gallery distanced itself from this unauthorized message, emphasizing its commitment to the safety of its staff, artists, and patrons.
Art News
The Pinault Dynasty's Next Act: A Fresh Face Takes the Helm at Christie's
Apr 8, 2024
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François Louis Nicolas Pinault, at 26, steps into the Christie's board, marking a generational shift in the Pinault family's luxury empire. This appointment signifies a broader transition within family-controlled businesses in France, reinforcing the Pinaults' influence in the art and luxury sectors.
Art News
British Council faces financial crisis and plans to sell half of its art collection
Feb 5, 2025
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2 minutes read
The British Council is facing a financial crisis due to mounting debt, compounded by COVID-19, forcing it to cut programmes and staff. To address this, it is considering selling part of its art collection.
Art News
JR will stick the faces of refugees and residents of the city on a building in Geneva
Jun 19, 2023
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2 minutes read
As the number of people who have to leave their homes hits a record high, a French artist's project called "Inside Out" aims to bring people in Geneva together.
Pop Culture
These surrealist optical illusions are created by Mimi Choi, a makeup artist using her own face as a canvas
Mar 31, 2022
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2 minutes read
Mimi Choi is a makeup artist based in Vancouver, Canada. She creates surrealist optical illusions using her own face as a canvas. Many of her makeup looks are inspired by her experiences with sleep paralysis.
Sell Art
Sell on Facebook Art Shop!
Nov 17, 2014
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1 minutes read
you can now take advantage of a huge market opportunity with Facebook: just install the Artmajeur Art Shop app on your Facebook page, and all your works of art for sale will be directly available from your Facebook page!
Sell Art
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR SALES WITH FACEBOOK?
May 16, 2022
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5 minutes read
Facebook with nearly 2.5 billion monthly users, is undoubtedly the largest social network in the world; and therefore the place to find new customers. Discover all the tricks to increase your subscribers, likes, shares and the sale of works of art.
Sell Art
Configure the BUY button on your Facebook account!
Oct 11, 2016
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Art News
Lensa is using your photos to train their AI, so be careful
Dec 9, 2022
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3 minutes read
Lensa users can upload photos and get 50 AI-generated selfies. Users send in "Face Data" to be used by Prisma AI to train their neural network. Apple's TrueDepth API gets this face data, which includes position, orientation, and face topology.
Art History
Social media and apps enter art...
Sep 2, 2023
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9 minutes read
Surely social media was not intended for the circulation of quality information, ready to promote the betterment of consciousness development, but each of us, free to act, could actually make an effort to spread and create something meaningful...
Art News
The origin of the world, Another paving stone in the pond!
Mar 6, 2015
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In 2011, without notice or explanation, Facebook deactivated the account of one of its subscribers, accusing him of having posted Gustave Courbet's table The Origin of the World on his page. Facebook's lawyer explains that in the general conditions of use, in the event of a dispute, only a court in the state of California is competent and can in no way fall under French law.
Artist Portraits
Magda Malkoun, the connections that are created with places
Aug 10, 2022
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10 minutes read
Magda Malkoun's work explores the psychology behind the conflicts and connections we create with the places, events, and faces we encounter while traveling. This is because the artist has always been fascinated by the infinite oscillations of the human condition, what makes us who we are, and the psychology behind each moment...
Art News
The security guard who defaced a painting by Anna Leporskaya does not understand his gesture
Feb 15, 2022
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Aleksandr Vasiliev said he thought Anna Leporskaya's painting was a children's sketch. Graffiti daubed "No eyes, no mouth, no beauty" on famous Lina Leporskaya painting Three Figures. Artist Evgeny Vasiliev has been charged with criminal vandalism. He faces up to three months in prison and a $4,600 fine.
Art News
The Controversial Removal of Prince Philip's 'Poorest Quality' Statue in Cambridge
Mar 28, 2024
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A Cambridge council has ordered the removal of a faceless, statue of the late Prince Philip, criticized as "possibly the poorest quality work" ever submitted to the council. Erected without permission and intended to honor Philip's tenure as Cambridge University's chancellor, the statue's removal has sparked a debate over public art and urban development practices.
Art History
Senecio (1922) by Paul Klee
Mar 29, 2023
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11 minutes read
"Senecio" is a painting created by Paul Klee in 1922. It is a portrait of a face, created using geometric shapes and bold colors...
Art History
AI: as of today, is painting dead?
Jul 5, 2023
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8 minutes read
Do you remember when the French painter born in 1797 Paul Delaroche, faced with the rise of the photographic medium, declared: as of today, painting is dead?...
Pop Culture
When Luca Luce Makes the Limits of Makeup Disappear
Oct 3, 2024
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1 minutes read
Italian makeup artist Luca Luce transforms his face into fascinating optical illusions with his striking 3D creations. Combining technique and creativity, he draws inspiration from everyday life and festive events to push the boundaries of makeup art.
Art News
Berlin Slashes €130 Million from Arts and Culture Budget
Dec 24, 2024
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Berlin City Hall has decided to cut €130 million from the arts and culture budget, a 12% reduction that will severely impact cultural venues, artists, educational programs, and the local arts scene. These budget cuts threaten to harm not only the creative sector, but also tourism, the local economy, and Berlin’s reputation as a cultural capital.
Art History
The Scream
Mar 17, 2023
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6 minutes read
The Scream is a famous painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The painting is universally recognized as an iconic illustration of existential fear and human anxiety. The distressed figure in the artwork has been read as a metaphor for the modern person's sense of loneliness and despair in the face of a heartless and uncaring universe.
Artist Portraits
Nick Fatum: Every work is inspired by a video clip
Jun 5, 2024
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4 minutes read
"At one time, I began my creative career by organizing a rock band, publishing poetry, then creating tracks in various styles of electronic music (collaboration with Ditto music (UK), signed to MojoHeadz Records (USA) in 2022), clip making (YouTube, Vimeo clip art) and from 2023 – creating and placing digital works on Artmajeur..."
Artist Portraits
JÁNOS KUJBUS: Characters deliberately taken out of context
Mar 10, 2020
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3 minutes read
Janos Kujbus likes to paint his contemporaries: he lingers on faces, on bodies, on specific postures in clothes that everyone could wear.
Art News
Discovered Beneath a Van Gogh Painting is a Self-Portrait
Jul 18, 2022
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3 minutes read
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.
Art News
Paris+ by Art Basel opens with great optimism in the emerging gallery sector
Oct 20, 2022
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3 minutes read
Even though there have been changes and worries, there is a lot of optimism in the Paris+ Emerging Galleries Sector.
Art History
What is kinetic art?
May 11, 2022
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Kinetic Art, or Programmed Art, was born after World War II in concomitance with the decline of geometric abstraction. It is an artistic current whose purpose is to illustrate the study of the mechanisms of vision, aspiring to a rendering in pictorial and plastic terms of dynamism, optical phenomena and light...
Art News
Unimaginable! Vienna museums opened an account on OnlyFans to counter social media censorship
Oct 21, 2021
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3 minutes read
The city's tourism board has set up an app to allow them to shown artworks of a sexual Viennese are "very open-minded," the tourism board's Helena Hartlauer said. OnlyFans is reminiscent of an earlier attempt to create a platform for sexually explicit art.
Lifestyle
Valentine's Day: How does art express love?
Feb 5, 2025
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8 minutes read
As Valentine's Day approaches, art reminds us of the depth of human emotion. Love, a universal and timeless theme, has inspired artists across ages and cultures. From ancient frescoes to urban graffiti, each art form seeks to capture the essence of this complex sentiment.