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Jessica Capra, a curator and art historian based in Munich, develops committed cultural projects that place Care at the heart of artistic creation. Through her collaborations and artist selections, she highlights works that explore care in its multiple forms – individual, social and environmental – making art a lever for transformation and collective reflection.

Temples, Murals, and the Onam Artistic Renaissance

Jun 7, 2024

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Onam is a vibrant harvest festival celebrated in Kerala, India, commemorating the return of King Mahabali. It is represented in arts through various forms such as Pookalam (floral rangoli), Kathakali dance-drama, mural paintings, and traditional crafts, showcasing the festival's cultural significance and mythological themes.

Banksy's latest artwork is on a damaged building in Ukraine

Nov 14, 2022

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.

Paula Solís Burgos: the passion of oil on canvas

Nov 7, 2023

11 minutes read

I always had an attraction for the plastic arts, since I was very young -at least that is what my mother tells me-, I liked to draw the caricatures I saw on television...

France passes a law that lets museums put back art that the Nazis stole

Jul 5, 2023

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France has passed a new law allowing museums to return stolen art from the Nazis. The new heritage code covers cultural items stolen between 1933 and 1945. President Macron has made restitution and repatriation a top goal.

Sell Art

Mar 8, 2020

21 minutes read

To sell art in general and on the internet in particular, it is important to ask the right questions If in most cases, selling art online has become essential for artists, everyone must find the right solution that best matches the specifics of his work.

Art makes its cinema, 9th edition of MIFAC in Angoulême from March 16 to 19, 2023

Feb 28, 2023

A festive moment eagerly awaited each year by art lovers and which will once again highlight recent quality films: documentaries shot by passionate directors who compete in imagination and technical prowess through portraits of fascinating and documented artists.

2023: like Alice in Wonderland...

Jan 22, 2023

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In keeping with the most classic Disney quote, I refer to the image of Alice, who, lying comfortably on a meadow in the company of her cat, lets time pass lost in thought. At some point, as we all know, the maiden's attention is caught by a strangely elegant and hasty rabbit, who, erect on his two white paws is pining in order not to be late for who knows what ever appointment...

Discover Rembrandt's "The Night's Watch" at the Rijksmuseum as you've never seen it before

Nov 9, 2021

The Rijksmuseum's Operation Night Watch program has reached its conclusion. Researchers are now inspecting the back of The Night Watch painting. Measurements will be made using light or sound waves to determine how well the support canvas is attached to the original on which Rembrandt painted.

After first appearing in New York, a €10 million 24-karat gold cube sculpture appears in Venice

Apr 22, 2022

Passers-by are invited to interact with the work, but it is only on display for one day.

Carlos Rodrigues, stone as the main means of expression

Jan 16, 2022

6 minutes read

In Carlos Rodrigues' sculptures, which aim to capture beauty, the artist leaves in stone the signs of its natural texture and the "wounds" of its extraction processes ...

The 4th Lyon International Street Art Festival at the forefront of new technologies

Oct 18, 2022

The Peinture fraiche (Wet Parinting) international street art festival is back at the Halle Debourg in Lyon (France). A new show set in the present, where music and new technologies are everywhere. Here's what you can look forward to.

The SEC is targeting NFT creators and marketplaces over ICO-like sales, according to a new report

Apr 1, 2022

As part of its investigation, the SEC is said to have issued subpoenas.

Artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol reunited in Paris

Apr 3, 2023

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat reunited in the 1980s, creating 160 works during their brief but productive time together. Seventy of these works will be on display at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

The Berlin subway in painting

Sep 26, 2023

When we speak of cityscape, a pictorial genre that arose in the 18th century to immortalize mainly city landscapes, sometimes even taking them exclusively from life, we immediately think, as a kind of uncodified reflex, of Canaletto's Venice...

Houston's Famous Orange Show Center Expands 2 Acres to Show More Parade Cars

Nov 19, 2021

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art is expanding. The new campus will be eight acres (3,2 ha) when it's complete. An 800-foot ramp that winds its way across the campus, past art cars and an open workshop, is one of the highlights. The Orange Show Foundation and the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art are expanding their presence in Houston.

Rafferoico, the compositional balance

Nov 23, 2022

9 minutes read

In the beginning, creating works was not a deliberate decision for Rafferoico; in fact, he only followed up an involuntary and spontaneous aptitude, which manifested itself in his childhood with drawing, even before it could be conceived of as "art."...

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The Museum of Bad Art has a lot of really great art

Aug 22, 2022

There is a lot of great art in the Museum of Bad Art. Its goal is to "celebrate the work of artists whose work would not be seen and appreciated anywhere else." The museum has over 700 pieces of art that are "too bad to be ignored." "Bad" is, however, a matter of opinion, and some of this art to be much more interesting to look at than a lot of the modern art that is shown in popular museums today.

A Renaissance against racism...

Feb 22, 2023

10 minutes read

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...

Eric Ullrich, incessant research

Jan 21, 2023

The top 5 European Cities for Art Lovers

"What I took for a game when I was a child by mimicking my architect-sculptor grandfather and my painter uncle ended up becoming a reason for living."

Lifestyle

May 14, 2022

There are many of intriguing places to visit in Europe, but where should you go if you're especially interested in art? Whether you go to Paris, London, Rome, or Barcelona, indeed, there are so many places in Europe with world-class art that narrowing the selection down to just 5 towns was difficult. They need not just great museums, but also enough open-air attractions to keep you entertained for weeks, if not months.

Perfect Gifts: Unique Works of Art for Any Occasion

Apr 28, 2025

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Gifting a unique work of art for weddings, anniversaries, or birthdays offers a timeless, deeply personal way to celebrate life's special moments. Unlike ordinary presents, art becomes a lasting treasure that grows in emotional value and strengthens the bond between giver and recipient.

Nick Fatum: Every work is inspired by a video clip

Jun 5, 2024

"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..."

Olga Afanasiadi, attention to static and changing aspects of nature

Feb 12, 2022

5 minutes read

Olga Afanasiadi's art is characterized by a key theme: the transfer of impressions from nature to the abstract pictorial plane...

Top 10: the most scandalous nudes in art

May 31, 2023

13 minutes read

My top ten has selected the best nude, crude, sensual, sometimes erotic and, as a result, extremely "scandalous," "demonic" and sometimes "dangerous" masterpieces for the eyes of those viewers most susceptible to the externalization of the sinuosities of the human body...

The representation of time passing in Art

Oct 21, 2020

6 minutes read

The theme of time has often been approached in painting from the angle of the different ages of man, to which many paintings are devoted.

Elise Gobeil, the technique of grisaille and glaze

Mar 29, 2023

6 minutes read

"I have a natural aptitude for drawing, I put several years of practice into it before exploring the world of painting".

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.

Very Peri is the color of the year 2022

Jan 2, 2022

The Pantone Color Institute has declared Very Peri as the color of the year 2022! The most varied shades of this blue hue, infused with red and purple, have distinguished the colors of the main subjects, or details, of some masterpieces of art history...

Jessica Capra: Empowering Emerging Artists Through Community, Care, and Creativity

Feb 21, 2025

Jessica Capra is the Head of Concept and Project at The Artist and the Others (TAATO), a foundation dedicated to empowering emerging artists by providing them with the skills, knowledge, and networks needed for sustainable careers. Driven by her passion for community, care, and contemporary art, Jessica focuses on mentoring artists, organizing workshops, and developing inclusive projects—such as flexible residencies for artist-parents.

Dance at the Moulin de la Galette by Auguste Renoir

Jun 7, 2023

"Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette" is a famous painting by Auguste Renoir. Made in 1876, it depicts a lively and joyful scene at an open-air ball at the famous Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, Paris.

Matisse’s Journey: From Fauvism to Timeless Cut-Outs

Aug 26, 2024

Henri Matisse, born on December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France, was a pioneering French artist known for his mastery of color and innovative draughtsmanship, whose work spanned over half a century, establishing him as a central figure in the evolution of modern art.

Snow in Flemish Painting

Dec 19, 2023

Flemish masters such as Jacob Grimmer, influenced by the art of Bruegel the Elder, painted snowy landscapes with skaters and hunters...

Natasha Yankelevich: From an early age I was immersed in art

Nov 28, 2023

"From an early age I was immersed in art: from the age of 4 I took a course at the Academy of Arts, then at an art school, and got a higher education in graphic design. After I completed my studies, I had a strong feeling that I did not want to immerse myself in applied handwork - painting, graphic techniques and other forms of artistic expression that require a complex technical process."...

Exploring the World Through Fazzino's Eyes: Pop Art and Beyond

Jul 15, 2024

Charles Fazzino, a pioneering American pop artist renowned for his vibrant and intricate 3D silkscreen serigraphs, draws inspiration from dynamic urban landscapes, thrilling sporting events, and iconic celebrities, captivating global audiences with his colorful, layered compositions and imaginative storytelling.

Kate Revill, BRIGHT colours

Jan 14, 2023