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Is There Anything Left to Paint?
Peter Schjeldahl on a new show at MOMA: “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” captures an art form in crisis.
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See the massive, stunning collection of art the Smithsonian just put on the web for free
The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have an amazing gift for the world in 2015: a newly available collection of 40,000 digitized Asian and American artworks. The Smithsonian says its vast collection has mostly never been seen by the public, and the institution is making the collection available for free public use. The art dates from the Neolithic period to present day; the Smithsonian says the collection includes...
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Pixel-like Watercolor Paintings of Pop Culture Icons
With references to Breaking Bad, Tetris, and beloved paintings like American Gothic, Adam Lister’s deconstructed watercolor style provides a unique take on the familiar icons and objects that surround us.
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When The Lights Go Out, My Glowing Murals Turn These Rooms Into Dreamy Worlds
If you think a few glowing stars on your ceiling are impressive, just get a look at these insane bedroom murals from Hungarian-born, Vienna-based artist Bogi Fa
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Johnny Abrahams
JOHNNY ABRAHAMS b. 1979, Tacoma, WA, USA Lives and works in New York
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Franz Marc Museum
Webseite Franz Marc Museum Kochel am See
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Painting Sale Sets $300m Record
A painting of two Tahitian girls by the French artist Paul Gauguin has been sold for $300m (£197m), making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.
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These Magic Realism Paintings Are Exceptional
Artist Rob Gonsalves produces a rare mix of creativity and optical illusions.
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NYCB Art Series Presents: Dustin Yellin
Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin brings a collection of his glass sculptures from the ongoing Psychogeographies series to New York City Ballet for the third presentation of Art Series, which welcomes contemporary artists to our Lincoln Center home.
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Happy Christmas! Stolen Picasso posted to New York by FedEx
It appeared to be a mundane parcel like scores of others lovingly posted across the ocean in the run-up to the holiday season: a package labelled “art craft/toy” with a value put at $37 (£24) and the message “Happy Christmas”. But when US customs officers examined the contents, they found a stolen Picasso painting worth at least $2.5m, which had been lost for 14 years. The 1911 Cubist masterwork, La Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser), had been registered missing from...
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Bosslogic X Al Norris by Bosslogix on DeviantArt
Bosslogic X Al Norris Photography This one was a fun one, hope you guys like it I left it high res so you can DOWNLOAD as wallpaper &nbs...
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25 Years After Art Heist, Empty Frames Still Hang In Boston's Gardner Museum
On March 18, 1990, robbers stole $500 million in art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Author Stephen Kurkjian explains why anyone would bother to steal work so priceless it couldn't be sold.
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Why museums hide masterpieces away
In major museums around the world, great works of art are hidden away from public view. What are they – and why can’t we see them?
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Blind Painter Relies on Touch and Texture to Create Stunningly Vivid Paintings
While art has always been a major part of John Bramblitt's life, it wasn't until he completely lost his sight that he tried to paint for the first time. From the age of 11, Bramblitt's vision was gradually stolen from him by epilepsy. By the time he was 30, seizures had rendered him completely blind, sending him into what he calls "the deepest, darkest hole" of depression. "All of the hopes and dreams that I had for my life...
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The Low Standards of Norman Rockwell’s Critics
All too many people are entirely settled in their opinion that Norman Rockwell’s art presents a “falsification” of reality: in short, he is charged with utopianism. This opinion is false, but nearly universal...
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Johannes Stötter Art
Fine Art Bodypainting, Nature-Art, Performance
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Gawking at Quixote
A brilliantly coherent show at the Frick explores the French artist Charles Coypel's remarkable illustrations of ‘Don Quixote.’ By Colm Tóibín
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I See Music Because I Have Synesthesia, So I Decided To Paint What I Hear
As a synesthete, the music I hear is translated into a flow of texture and colors. Synethesia, although not disorientating, can sometimes leave me at odds trying to describe what I can see to others. Painting in oils and acrylics is a way to express and exhibit the beautiful colors that I see on a day to day basis, whether it's hearing someone's name, or that song on the radio.
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This Picasso painting could smash auction record
A painting by Pablo Picasso, "Les femmes d'Alger" is expected to set a new record when it goes up for auction in May.
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Art Too Tempting at Rikers; Plot to Steal a Dalí Was Far From a Masterpiece (2003)
In the back, according to investigators from the Bronx district attorney's office, was a crudely sketched imitation of a drawing by Salvador Dalí.
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