TThe floor under the Penny Goring table was littered with threads and splinters of scarlet. The splinters and snippets travel across the rug in swirls of crimson, as if blood had spilled from her stabbing scissors and seeped across her bedroom floor into the outside world. face her art – soft sculptures resembling the dolls … Read more
Art Nouveau was a snooze! Prince William admits he stopped working during university lectures Prince William says he slept during lectures at the University of St Andrews He said he was “terrible” for being sleepy and had to quit studying art because of it The Duke of Cambridge said that being able to study Renaissance … Read more
We’re approaching another Monday from San Diego Comic-Con, which leaves *uses fingers to count*….just four more Mondays until the main event. While we wait for the exhibitor list, plate schedule, and announcements from the big hitters, let’s take a deep look at who’ll be there, who’ll be bringing the merchandise, and who you won’t want … Read more
Berlin, Germany (AFP) – Jewish leaders and Israel’s embassy in Germany on Monday expressed their “disgust” at anti-Semitic images displayed at Documenta, one of the world’s largest art galleries. was documenta controversy overshadowed her For months due to its inclusion of a group of Palestinian artists strongly critical of the Israeli occupation. Two days after … Read more
On a Wednesday evening in February 1972, when police officers and emergency responders in New Paltz, New York, flocked to a fire, someone snatched a pair of 19th-century photographs of a wealthy local couple from a historic community elsewhere in the city. The theft also led to the loss of dozens of items, dating back … Read more
(From left to right) Asa Butterfield as Billy Rubin, Fatima Muhammed as Ile de Ile, and Aryan as Lamina Propria in Peter Strickland Gourmet Flux.picture: IFC midnight People regularly throw the word “surreal” around simply to mean weird. But surrealism as an art movement is a specific pursuit of the unconscious; An investigation of the … Read more
sBuoyed over Newhaven’s West Corniche, as visible to refugees at sea as to dog handlers who stroll along the front, is a massive message written in bright fairground lights, raised high by a five-meter-high scaffold. “You imagine what you want,” says the text statue, one of six sculptures by the Glasgow-based artist. Nathan Cooley which … Read more
Like all good feuds, theirs began a storm of mutual admiration—even passion—that led some in bohemian circles in London to question whether there was a joy of romance in their friendship. But it was art, not sex, that attracted Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon to each other. Bacon, who was expelled from the family home … Read more
TIt’s the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery In London, crammed into a corner of Trafalgar Square, which opened in 1991, is a building like no other. The galleries on the upper floor, which contain works by Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, and other masters of the Italian Renaissance, achieve a broadly impressive … Read more
Why is truck art important in Pakistan? The space is special because it is usually dedicated to Pakistani national heroes and actors/singers. Imran Khan’s photo on a truck. (Express Photo) Painter Haji Naz, 65, from Peshawar, who has spent more than five decades drawing portraits on trucks in Pakistan, says the face drawn on a … Read more
