Art News
Dutch museums are turning into barbershops and gyms
Jan 21, 2022
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In a playful protest against Covid's lockdown, Dutch museums reopen as salons and gyms.
Art History
5 Turkish Artmajeur painters you absolutely must know!
Sep 11, 2023
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Does painting exist in every civilization? Or perhaps there are peoples who have refrained from practicing it? This we ask ourselves, when, still unburdened with notions, we approach the history of Turkish art,
Art News
In Turkey, a major exhibition sparked outrage
Jan 4, 2022
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A recent art exhibition in a major Kurdish city in Turkey tried to bring hope to an area that has been devastated by years of strife. It ended up serving as a stark reminder of how divisive the Kurdish issue is in Turkey.
Art News
Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Underground City in Turkey's South
Apr 26, 2022
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An archaeological dig in Turkey has uncovered what researchers believe to be the world's largest subterranean city.
Art News
Centre Pompidou Faces Turmoil as 2025 Closure Sparks Controversy
Dec 11, 2023
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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.
Art News
Many historic sites destroyed after earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria
Feb 7, 2023
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Turkey and Syria both had quakes. Gaziantep Castle and other historic sites were damaged.
Artist Portraits
Jean Turco, the art of sharing pleasure
Sep 7, 2022
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Jean Turco's idea has always been to share the pleasure he felt in seeing one or other of the things that present themselves to our gaze, either as they really are when the light puts them in value, either in the way I see them, to take them out of context to make images that illustrate an idea, a smile or a message to a muse, a friend, a collector or a simple stranger...
Art News
BTS turns the world into an art gallery
Jul 13, 2022
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In the new collaboration with Google, each band member shares his love of art.
Art News
German Photographer Turns Down Prize for AI "Photo"
Apr 17, 2023
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Boris Eldagsen sent an AI-made picture to the Sony World Photography Awards just to be "a cheeky monkey," but he didn't think he'd actually win.
Artist Portraits
Preston M. Smith, waste materials turned into works of art
Jun 8, 2022
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Preston M. Smith scavenge the streets of Los Angeles in order to create assemblage artworks. Infact, he painting on broken and recycled materials, such as wood, glass, screens, plexiglass, desk pieces, furniture, and more...
Art News
Playboy model-turned-princess kicked out of $533 million mansion
Apr 21, 2023
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Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi was kicked out of the Casino dell'Aurora in Rome due to an outside wall falling apart. The ceiling painting was painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1597. Princess Rita and her family were kicked out of the Villa dell'Aurora due to the children from Prince Nicolo's first marriage.
Pop Culture
Goku and his friends turned into adorable babies thanks to AI
Dec 23, 2022
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AI-generated art is a new form of art that many artists are trying out. An Instagram artist decided to see what AI could do when asked to draw popular characters from the Dragon Ball Z series as cute babies
Art News
Twist: AI Art Copyright Debate Takes an Unexpected Turn!
Aug 22, 2023
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AI art's copyright debate continues as a recent ruling denies copyright for AI-generated images, leaving questions about its future implications. The evolving landscape of AI art and its copyright challenges remain subjects of ongoing legal and artistic scrutiny.
Art History
J. M. W. Turner
Mar 30, 2023
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J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter. Turner's work is characterized by bold colors, loose brushwork, and innovative compositions. He was particularly interested in capturing light and atmospheric effects in his paintings and is renowned for his ability to convey the beauty and power of nature.
Art History
Art that turns you to stone: depictions of the Medusa
Oct 23, 2022
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From an art-historical point of view, the oldest depictions of Medusa date back to the 8th century B.C., when, on the roofs of Greek and Etruscan temples, her monstrous figure was used as an antefix in order to control and protect sacred buildings...
Artist Portraits
HABIB HASNAOUI: Quartered between two countries who turn their backs
Nov 19, 2019
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Habib Hasnaoui lives between two shores: France, where he was born, studied and where he has now settled. And, in the meantime, Algeria, where his parents are from, where he did his military service and landed his first job during the years of civil war.His work attempts both to account for this drama and to express the impossibility of belonging to two lands at the same time.
Art News
All 10,000 BAYC NFTs are turned into machine-made art by Google AI
Aug 4, 2022
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Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs were transformed into machine-made paintings by Google cloud computing AI.
Art News
Veronica Ryan, wins the Turner Prize
Dec 8, 2022
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On Wednesday, Britain's most important art award went to an artist from New York who showed work at this year's Whitney Biennial.
Art News
$4 billion project will turn Miami's waterfront into an open-air museum
Mar 30, 2022
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Miami Worldcenter, a sprawling mixed-use complex in the heart of downtown, appears to be the premier shopping destination in South Florida. Worldcenter has been revealing attractions one after the other
Art News
Two museums buy together a masterpiece that they will exhibit in turn
Apr 4, 2023
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"Portrait of Mai (Omai)" by Joshua Reynolds is thought to be one of the most important early portraits of a person of color in Britain. In an innovative arrangement, it will travel between London and Los Angeles.
Art News
Picasso's turn to get bogged down by members of the Extinction Rebellion
Oct 10, 2022
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Two Extinction Rebellion members who stuck themselves to a Picasso painting at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne were arrested on Sunday.
Art History
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.
Art News
Jesse Darling Triumphs with Turner Prize, Celebrating Innovative Sculpture
Dec 6, 2023
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Berlin-based artist Jesse Darling has won the prestigious Turner Prize, acclaimed for sculptures that embody human fragility using everyday objects. Darling's work, reflecting on themes of vulnerability and interdependence, earned recognition in the prize's 40th year, celebrating innovation in art.
Art History
The technique of watercolor: from William Turner to contemporary times
Nov 16, 2022
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Referring to the most accessible of definitions, Wikipedia describes watercolor as a painting technique marked by the use of finely ground pigments mixed with binders, which, at a later stage are diluted in water, in order to be spread on the pictorial support, in order to create compositions from characterizing soft and delicate colors...
Art History
Pollution in art: Turner, Monet and Boccioni "forerunners" of environmental art
Feb 5, 2023
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The nineteenth- and twentieth-century reality, as told by artists, who, like Turner, Monet and Boccioni, documented, without any pretense of ecological denunciation, worthy of the more contemporary Environmental Art, Land Art and Ecological Art...
Art News
Bought for 35 dollars in a second-hand store in Texas, the sculpture turns out to be an ancient Roman bust!
May 24, 2022
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A marble bust purchased for about $35 from a Goodwill store by a Texas woman is on temporary display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.