Art News
NOMA faces heated controversy over hiring white woman
Jul 4, 2023
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The New Orleans Art Museum is facing a heated controversy over the hiring of a white woman as curator of African art.
Art News
Picasso's 'Woman with a Watch' Auctions for $139M Record
Nov 9, 2023
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Pablo Picasso's 1932 painting "Woman with a Watch" sold for a record $139 million at Sotheby's, becoming the year's most valuable auctioned artwork. It is the second-highest price ever fetched for a Picasso, after "The Women of Algiers" in 2015.
Art News
Australia's Richest Woman Demands National Gallery Remove Her Portrait
May 16, 2024
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Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest woman, has requested the National Gallery of Australia to remove an "unflattering" portrait of her by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira. The gallery declined, emphasizing the importance of public dialogue about their collection and displays.
Art News
Vandals paint white a huge sculpture of a black woman
May 24, 2023
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Last week, vandals in England spray-painted white a 10-foot-tall sculpture of a sitting Black woman that was made by Tschabalala Self.
Art News
Judge Rules Against Restitution Claim for Picasso’s ‘Woman Ironing’
Jun 19, 2024
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Pablo Picasso’s 1904 painting Woman Ironing will remain with the Guggenheim Foundation after a Manhattan Supreme Court dismissed a restitution lawsuit, citing the failure to prove "actionable duress." The lawsuit, filed by Thomas Bennigson, argued that Karl Adler was forced to sell the painting in 1938 due to Nazi persecution, but the court found no specific evidence of coercion.
Art News
Andy Warhol's Polaroid of Mick Jagger and a Woman Touching Tongues Could Be Yours
Jul 20, 2022
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A photograph from the Stones' Love You Live cover session is part of a massive charity auction hosted by the Warhol Foundation.
Art News
The police go to the art gallery to save a woman in distress, which is actually a sculpture
Dec 13, 2022
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"Kristina" is a sculpture of a sleeping woman on a chair, her head on a desk. Someone called the police as someone inside the gallery appeared to have a medical emergency.
Art News
A San Francisco gallery owner is arrested and thrown in jail after he hosed down a homeless woman
Jan 20, 2023
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Video of art gallery owner Shannon Collier Gwin dousing a homeless woman with a garden hose went viral. Gwin was arrested Wednesday and charged with misdemeanor battery. He apologized for the incident after the video received thousands of views, but he had already admitted to it.
Artist Portraits
Bogdan Dide, the mystery of a woman's face
Nov 16, 2022
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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 History
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
Mar 24, 2023
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"The Kiss" is a famous painting created by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt in 1908. It depicts a couple locked in an embrace and about to kiss, with the man wrapping his arms around the woman and tilting her head back while she leans into him. The painting is considered one of Klimt's most famous works, and it is widely recognized as an iconic image of romantic love.
Art History
The Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet
Jun 8, 2023
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"The Luncheon on the Grass" by Édouard Manet is a groundbreaking and controversial painting that challenged artistic conventions with its depiction of a nude woman having a picnic with clothed men. Its provocative composition and departure from traditional norms made it a pivotal work in the history of art.
Art News
Zendaya and Hunter Schafer transformed into masterpieces of art history in the Euphoria series
Feb 2, 2022
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Last night's episode of HBO's Euphoria contained a scattering of the predictable—teens acting horribly, self-destructively, and making each other cry for reasons that aren't fully clear. Alongside it all, in an unexpected twist, art history was given a prominent role in the show, which began with reenactments of scenes from some of the most famous paintings ever created.
Lifestyle
We discovered an iPhone on a painting from 1860!
Oct 5, 2022
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The Internet can't figure out why a woman in a painting from 1860 seems to be holding an iPhone.
Art History
Top 10: Mustaches in Art History
Nov 18, 2023
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The ancient italian proverb "A mustached woman has always been popular," originally perhaps more as "A PAUNCHY woman has always been popular," gives us an idea of the popularity of the mustache, even among representatives of the fairer sex...
Art History
Women: from unicorns to pets
May 17, 2023
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I imagine a beautiful and elegant woman intent on carrying in her designer handbag a cuddly Chihuahua, a four-legged animal with often puffy and extremely expressive eyes, which, despite appearing so small, tender and sweet...
Art News
Art Fair Visitor Inadvertently Broke $42,000 Jeff Koons Sculpture!
Feb 20, 2023
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At a VIP event in Miami, a woman taps a shiny blue sculpture, which then breaks into pieces and falls to the floor.
Pop Culture
Miniaturist Artist: Her Tiny Version of Monet Reunited with the Original
Jul 21, 2023
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Ana Sofía Casaverde, Peruvian artist, went to the National Gallery of Art to admire "Woman with a Parasol", a work that she had painstakingly reproduced with the help of a needle.
Art History
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...
Art History
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Mar 6, 2023
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The way the painting is put together is similar to other works of art from the time. It uses diagonal lines to show off the woman and show how she is moving both toward the canvas and away from it...
Art History
The geisha: history and evolution of an art subject
Jun 4, 2023
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From a historical point of view, however, the geisha woman was preceded in the early days of Japanese history by the figure of the saburuko...
Art History
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
May 30, 2023
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The Mona Lisa strikingly resembles Renaissance representations of the Virgin Mary, which was considered an ideal of femininity at the time. The woman in the painting is seated upright in a "pozzetto" armchair with her arms folded, indicating a reserved posture.
Art News
Outrage after the inauguration of a new statue with a too transparent dress
Sep 29, 2021
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Statue of La Spigolatrice by Emanuele Stifano was unveiled this week in Sapri, Italy. It depicts a woman with an exaggeratedly large and clearly transparent rear end. Many Italian women politicians are calling for the statue to be taken down.
Lifestyle
Artist JR supports Iranian women with an art installation in New York
Dec 7, 2022
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Hundreds of people gathered on Roosevelt Island in New York City on Sunday to bring to life an art installation that showed solidarity with the women in Iran who are leading the uprising. Chants of "Woman, Life, Freedom" could be heard all around the island.
Art News
Six new never-before-seen Banksy works believed to belong to his ex-girlfriend
Oct 21, 2022
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A woman who says she was Bansky's ex-girlfriend is showing six early works by the artist that have never been seen before. In the 1990s, she says she went out with the artist for four years.
Art History
Sculpture and painting: Modigliani and African art
Nov 2, 2022
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Many great masters in the history of art have expressed their views on reality by experimenting, both pictorial and sculptural art, just like Pablo Picasso, Umberto Boccioni, Max Ernst, Edgar Degas, Joan Miró and others...
Art News
Banksy's latest artwork is on a damaged building in Ukraine
Nov 14, 2022
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Banksy shows off a new piece of art on a damaged building in Borodyanka, Ukraine. He put up several pictures of the new piece on his Instagram account. One picture shows a woman using her hands to flip herself onto the foundation of the building.
Art History
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...
Artist Portraits
MATHILDE OSCAR: The photo workshop inspired by painting
Oct 2, 2019
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The photos are extremely refined, staged, bathed in a light that lets see the smallest detail. The woman who is at the heart of the stage wears clothes that refer to known universes: often atmospheres that evoke paintings (Veermer, Frida Kahlo, Manet, manga, ...).
Art News
Beatles' Hidden Gem Unveiled Fetches $1.7 Million at Christie's
Feb 7, 2024
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A unique painting by the Beatles, created during their 1966 Tokyo stay, was sold for $1.7 million at Christie's, exceeding its initial estimate. Titled "Images of a Woman," this artwork represents a rare foray into visual art by the iconic band, highlighting their diverse talents beyond music.
Art History
Reflecting on Tradition: Contemporary Art's Homage to the Mid-Autumn Festival
May 27, 2024
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The Mid-Autumn Festival, a celebration rooted in over 3,000 years of Chinese tradition, has evolved from ancient harvest rituals to a cherished occasion symbolizing unity and familial ties. From moon worship to lantern displays, its themes resonate in contemporary art, bridging tradition with modern aesthetics.
Lifestyle
Barbra Streisand: A Long History of Collecting
Oct 16, 2023
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The singer and actress, residing in California, has a long history of art and design collecting, dating back to her acquisition of a Matisse piece in 1964...
Art History
It's all about money: wealth flaunted by art
Jan 15, 2023
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To talk about money, or simply take the trouble to flaunt it in a showy and elitist manner, it is not necessary to open your mammoth wallet in front of the bus stop in order to flaunt the renowned American Express Centurion Card to your waiting neighbor...
Art History
6 Things to Know about Berthe Morisot
Sep 24, 2021
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Independent and indispensable to Impressionism, Berthe Morisot is an UFO in the history of Art. Like Frida Kahlo, Niki de Saint Phalle, Artemisia Gentileschi or Suzanne Valandon, she’s a woman in a men’s world, who managed to impose herself and convert the difficulties of her existence into creative gunpowder.
Art News
Singapore Street Art Under Fire: A Debate on Artistic Expression
Jun 26, 2024
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A government order to modify a mural in Singapore's Chinatown, depicting a Samsui woman with a lit cigarette, has sparked a debate on street art censorship and public policy. Artist Sean Dunston defended his work, highlighting historical accuracy and challenging conventional portrayals, which led to a broader discussion on the balance between artistic expression and regulatory control in Singapore.
Art History
The colors of parrots: Albrecht Dürer, the nude and the contemporary
May 28, 2023
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Rather than listing masterpieces aimed at immortalizing parrots, I want to contextualize the subject of my discussion through the figure of the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer...
Art History
Edvard Munch
Mar 13, 2023
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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker. His most famous piece, The Scream (1893), has grown to become one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art. Munch was part of the Symbolist movement and is known for his emotionally charged and psychologically complex works. His art often explored themes of love, death, and human vulnerability, and he was deeply influenced by his own experiences of loss and grief.