Artist Portraits
Eduardo Kobra: The Vibrant Voice of Urban Art
Aug 2, 2024
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6 minutes read
Eduardo Kobra is a contemporary Brazilian street artist known for his large-scale murals that burst with vibrant colors and intricate details. His work often pays homage to historical figures and events, reimagining them through a kaleidoscopic lens....
Lifestyle
Jorge and Darlene Pérez: a significant contributions to the Miami art scene
Dec 21, 2023
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11 minutes read
Real-estate magnate Jorge M. Pérez had already established himself as a prominent figure in Miami long before a somewhat controversial decision in 2013 to rename the Miami Art Museum in his honor caused a stir...
Art History
Alfons Mucha
May 25, 2023
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18 minutes read
Alphonse Mucha, born Alfons Maria Mucha, was a renowned Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist who resided in Paris during the Art Nouveau era. He gained international recognition for his unique and ornamental theatrical posters, particularly those featuring the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
Lifestyle
At the 'dream on' exhibition, John Bock's tentacle sculpture sprawls out of a Lincoln convertible
Jul 19, 2022
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2 minutes read
The Greek organization NEON collaborates with the Hellenic Parliament to bring to life the iconic building of the former Public Tobacco Factory in Athens. The project, curated by Dimitris Paleocrassas, brings together a number of large-scale works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection.
Artist Portraits
Lita Cabellut: A Visionary Artist Rooted in Tradition and Innovation
Jan 27, 2025
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6 minutes read
Lita Cabellut (born in 1961) is a Spanish artist known for her multidisciplinary approach. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she creates on a grand scale, employing a modern adaptation of the traditional fresco technique...
Artist Portraits
Jenny Saville: Redefining the Female Form in Contemporary Art
Sep 12, 2024
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7 minutes read
Jenny Saville is a British contemporary artist known for her large-scale, visceral paintings of the human body, particularly focusing on female forms and themes of imperfection, gender, and beauty. Her work challenges traditional representations of the nude, blending realism with abstraction to explore the complexities of identity and physicality.
Artist Portraits
Bosco Sodi: The Artist of Material and Essence
Sep 4, 2024
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6 minutes read
Bosco Sodi is a Mexican contemporary artist celebrated for his focus on raw materials and their inherent beauty. His works explore texture, form, and the unpredictability of natural processes. By using materials like clay, sawdust, and pure pigments, Sodi creates paintings and sculptures that emphasize the physicality of the medium, embracing imperfection and the uncontrolled forces of nature...
Art News
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2025: A Fusion of Music, Dance, and Artistic Expression
Mar 27, 2025
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5 minutes read
Coachella 2025 will take place over two weekends in April, featuring headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post Malone alongside a diverse mix of artists. The festival will blend music, dance, and visual arts, offering immersive experiences through large-scale art installations, interactive performances, and cutting-edge technology.
Artist Portraits
Julie Mehretu: Ethiopian American Artist's Modern Landscapes
Dec 3, 2024
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10 minutes read
Julie Mehretu, an Ethiopian American contemporary artist, is celebrated for her large-scale, multi-layered abstract paintings that reflect urban and sociopolitical changes. Recognized in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020, she has secured her place as a groundbreaking Black female painter.
Artist Portraits
Mark Bradford: A Master of Layered Abstraction and Social Commentary
Sep 13, 2024
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8 minutes read
Mark Bradford is a contemporary American artist renowned for his large-scale abstract paintings that often incorporate everyday materials such as paper, posters, and textiles. His works are known for their complexity, layering, and ability to comment on social, racial, and political issues. Bradford’s pieces resonate with themes of urban life, resilience, and inequality, making him a unique voice in contemporary art...
Artist Portraits
Chad Cantcolor: The Dynamic Visionary of Contemporary Pop Art
Jul 16, 2024
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5 minutes read
Chad Carothers, widely recognized as Chad Cantcolor, is an acclaimed American contemporary freehand painter and designer known for his vibrant and dynamic artworks that blend bold colors and intricate patterns, reflecting a unique fusion of street art and fine art, and capturing the essence of modern pop culture.
Art News
Valencia’s Palacio Valeriola Transforms into Artistic Hub as Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero
Nov 24, 2023
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2 minutes read
After a $42 million renovation, Valencia’s 17th-century Palacio Valeriola has reopened as the Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, showcasing 100 international artworks. This historic site, blending architectural heritage with contemporary art, reflects Hortensia Herrero's vision of cultural preservation and artistic diversity.
Lifestyle
Giant Footprint by Artist The Krank at Paxos Biennale Reflects Humanity's Destructive Ecological Footprint
Jun 14, 2022
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1 minutes read
Greek visual artist The Krank has completed a 1,000 square-meter land art project near Greece's Mongonissi bay for the Paxos Biennale 2022. The large-scale installation is a poignant metaphor for humanity's ongoing and devastating impact on ecological systems around the world.
Artist Portraits
Sterling Ruby: Art, Psychology & Social Commentary
Oct 29, 2024
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11 minutes read
Sterling Ruby, born on January 21, 1972, is a versatile American artist known for his work across multiple media, including ceramics, painting, sculpture, and textiles. His art is often displayed in expansive, intricate installations that draw on a wide array of influences, such as urban culture, mental health themes, and social issues like globalization and American decline...
Artist Portraits
Sculpting Identity: Subodh Gupta and the Power of Everyday Objects
Apr 14, 2025
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11 minutes read
Subodh Gupta is an acclaimed contemporary Indian artist known for his large-scale sculptures, installations, and paintings that incorporate everyday objects. His work often explores themes of identity, globalization, and the intersection of traditional Indian culture with modern consumerism.
Artist Portraits
Jacques Vanroose
Dec 5, 2022
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2 minutes read
Jacques Vanroose, who lives in Bruges, attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges, but it was only after his professional career that he devoted himself entirely to the creation of bronze or ceramic sculptures.
Artist Portraits
Philippe Pasqua: Confronting Identity and Mortality with Raw Artistic Expression
Jul 26, 2024
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6 minutes read
Philippe Pasqua is a contemporary French artist known for his provocative and often unsettling portraits, which explore themes of identity, mortality, and the human condition. His work combines elements of painting and sculpture, frequently featuring raw and intense imagery.
Art News
The First AI Art Museum Opening in 2025
Sep 27, 2024
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1 minutes read
Refik Anadol will open DATALAND, the world’s first museum dedicated to AI-generated art, in 2025 at the Grand LA in downtown Los Angeles. The museum will feature immersive, data-driven exhibits, including the Large Nature Model, and will blend cutting-edge technology with artistic innovation.
Artist Portraits
Giuseppe Penone: The Art of Nature and the Essence of Sculpture
Mar 10, 2025
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9 minutes read
Giuseppe Penone (born 1947 in Garessio, Italy) is an Italian sculptor recognized for his large tree-inspired works. His art explores the connection between humans and nature and is linked to the Arte Povera movement. In 2014, he received the Praemium Imperiale. He currently lives and works in Turin, Italy...
Art News
Frank Stella, a master among abstract artists of his era, has passed away at the age of 87
May 6, 2024
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9 minutes read
Frank Stella first gained recognition as a Minimalist in the 1960s with his groundbreaking "Black Paintings" series. He later broadened his artistic repertoire to include brightly colored works on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculptures, and collaborations with architects...
Art News
40 million dollars for a painting from the series "Nymphéas" by Monet to be auctioned
Nov 3, 2021
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2 minutes read
Le Coin du Bassin aux Nymphéas (1918) will be auctioned off on November 16. It is one of a number of Monet pieces that have recently fetched high prices. The American buyer paid $6.7 million for the painting 24 years ago.
Art News
International Artist Jean-Michel Othoniel to Craft Stained Glass for Toulouse's Historic Basilica
Jan 23, 2024
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2 minutes read
Internationally renowned artist Jean-Michel Othoniel has been selected to create a stained glass window for the Saint-Sernin Basilica in Toulouse, as part of its extensive restoration. The project, blending contemporary art with the basilica's historic essence, is funded by the city and a private patron, reflecting a significant cultural investment.
Art News
In Milan, the SalvArti exhibition presents 80 works of art seized from organized crime
Dec 6, 2024
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2 minutes read
The "SalvArti" exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan highlights more than 80 works of art confiscated from Italian mafia groups, transforming these pieces into symbols of the fight against organized crime and cultural renewal.
Art News
Coachella 2023, an edition rich in artistic installations
Apr 20, 2023
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2 minutes read
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has shown off four large-scale art pieces to bring color, light, and different perspectives to the charged atmosphere. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2023 is a "phantosmagoric spectacle that plays with your perception and pulls you away from reality".
Artist Portraits
Brent Wadden: Weaving Modernism into the Threads of Craft
Apr 7, 2025
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8 minutes read
Brent Wadden creates abstract woven works that merge painting, design, craft, and folk art. By mounting his handwoven textiles on canvas, he blurs the boundaries between craft and painting. His use of repetition through warp and weft welcomes imperfections and variations, highlighting subtle disruptions in line, color, and form...
Sell Art
NEW: THE EXHIBITION RIGHT
Jun 4, 2020
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4 minutes read
You are a visual / graphic artist, we take care of giving you a quick and precise summary in the right of exhibition. This is normal, because it is very often ignored (voluntarily or not) by French exhibition venues. The scale of the floor (minimum) remuneration for artists in the context of temporary exhibitions is set up by the Ministry of Culture.
Artist Portraits
César: The Mastermind Behind Compressed Automobiles and Foam Sculptures
Aug 13, 2024
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7 minutes read
César Baldaccini, a pioneering French sculptor and key figure in Nouveau Réalisme, revolutionized contemporary art with his innovative sculptures and compressions of industrial materials, leaving a lasting legacy after his death in 1998.
Artist Portraits
Benjamin Shine: Sculpting Light and Form with Tulle
Aug 9, 2024
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4 minutes read
Benjamin Shine is a contemporary British artist known for his innovative use of tulle fabric to create intricate, ethereal portraits and sculptures. His work explores themes of light, form, and the interplay between material and immaterial, often blurring the lines between painting and sculpture.
Artist Portraits
Carol Bove: A Journey Through Sculpture, Materiality, and Public Spaces
Jan 24, 2025
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7 minutes read
Carol Bove is an American artist known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that explore materiality and space. Her work often combines diverse materials, such as steel, concrete, and organic elements, challenging traditional notions of display and reinterpreting historical artistic strategies.
Artist Portraits
Roberto Matta: Bridging Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Jul 17, 2024
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8 minutes read
Roberto Matta, born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile, became a pivotal figure in 20th-century art through his mastery of abstract expressionism and surrealism, transitioning from architecture to painting and earning international acclaim for his innovative techniques and profound exploration of cosmic themes, influencing artists globally until his death in 2002.
Art News
Rare Basquiat Self-Portrait Emerges After Decades in Hiding for Sotheby's Auction
Oct 27, 2023
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3 minutes read
An elusive Basquiat self-portrait, unseen for over two decades, is set to take center stage at Sotheby's fall auction, with an estimated value of $40-60 million. The monumental artwork, "Self Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)," created in 1982, provides a rare glimpse into Basquiat's self-identity and artistic vision, and its return to the public eye is generating significant anticipation in the art world.
Artist Portraits
Idan Zareski: The Artist Behind the Bigfoot Family Project
Jul 3, 2024
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4 minutes read
Idan Zareski is an internationally renowned sculptor best known for his Bigfoot Family Project. His dynamic, colorful sculptures explore themes of human connection and cultural unity, with the Bigfoot Family series using whimsical, oversized-foot figures to symbolize peace and a shared human experience.
Artist Portraits
Angelika Poels, the eternal feeling of wanting to create
Jan 23, 2022
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4 minutes read
The art of Angelika Poels, which uses different techniques and materials, can arise from the most spontaneous ideas of the artist, but also from the observation of reality and the world of art ...
Invest in Art
#artistsupportpledge: artists who have sold get involved
Apr 21, 2020
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2 minutes read
#ArtistsSupportPledge is an idea of solidarity between creatives. The artists engage in a spiral of solidarity: each time they sell 5 works, they have a turn to buy a work from another artist.
Artist Portraits
Jérôme Mesnager and the Evolution of Contemporary Graffiti
Jul 30, 2024
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6 minutes read
Jérôme Mesnager, a pioneering street artist born in Colmar, France, is renowned for creating the iconic Homme en blanc (White Man), a symbol of light, strength, and peace, which has left a lasting impact on the contemporary graffiti and urban art movement from 1980 to 2009, inspiring the global art community with his innovative approach.
Artist Portraits
Nicky Chiarello, Motoring art
Jan 29, 2022
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3 minutes read
Nicky Chiarello's art comes from the possibility of transforming cars into an object of art, through the use of intense colors, which highlight the brightness and reflections of the bodywork...