Art
What Happened to Frida Kahlo’s Missing Adultery Painting?
After Frida Kahlo discovered that her beloved husband Diego Rivera had conducted an affair with her younger sister Cristina, she painted ‘The Wounded Table.’ Then it disappeared.<p>From the beginning, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s relationship was an exceptional blend of passion and turbulence. Only …
ArtistsScott Weaver's incredible toothpick sculptures
By day, Scott Weaver is a grocery store clerk. When he's not working, he's making elaborate sculptures out of toothpicks and Elmer's Glue. His tool …
5 Russian Doll Artists Creating Eerie, Hyperrealistic Handmade Toys - Creators
In taking the natural anatomy of a human being and transforming it into a captivating and magical inanimate figure, contemporary artists who create Russian dolls have an affinity for the weird and wonderful. Although, traditionally, dolls are popular objects in Russian art and design, contemporary …
SculptureThese 10 Artworks Tell the Story of Contemporary Art
<i>In “The Big Picture: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists,” Matthew Israel, Artsy’s Curator at Large, examines 10 artworks that trace the</i> …
MOMABreathtaking Stained-Glass Cabin Looks Ripped from a Fairytale - Creators
A miniature house made from glass shows off expert construction and dazzling motifs seemingly ripped from <i>Alice In Wonderland</i>. Covered with stained glass, the house sits on a stretch of luscious green land in Mohawk, New Jersey. Neile Cooper, a long-time stained-glass artist and jeweler, considers …
HousesTwo guys used electronic paint rollers to make video collages on European landmarks
This is "video painting" a form of interactive graffiti.<p>Art duo Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy developed the technique using electronic paint rollers embedded with infrared lights. The lights within the paint rollers send tracking information to a computer, which then tells the projector where to …
PaintingWhy Is There So Much Weird, Freaky Art at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017?
Things are getting real weird at the Art Basel Hong Kong fair this week. Take, for example, the fleshy, too-real sculptures by the Australian artist Patricia Piccinini: a squat, furry monkey atop two patchy legs, or a lifelike, frizzy-haired woman who could easily be a work by another unsettling …
Hong KongLondon: Live art demonstrations – for the love of ink
<b>Fair artists Bridget Davies and Rod McIntosh will share their passion for working with ink in live art demonstrations on Saturday 1st …
[Premiere] Waxy 3D Humanoids Explore Gender Duality in New Net Art Series - Creators
<i>Every Saturday, The Creators Project premieres a new issue from net art platform and artist collective,</i> <i>FELT Zine</i><i>.</i><p>The idealized lacquered humanoids in the 25th issue of <i>FELT Zine</i> encapsulate 3D artist Jason Ebeyer's belief that everybody, no matter their gender, has a masculine and feminine side to …
ArtistsThese Are the 5 Most Exciting Discoveries at Art Basel Hong Kong
AD finds the best and the brightest among this year’s headliners—from a Korean conceptual artist to a Bangladeshi sculptor<p>Art Basel is the mega–art fair so big it happens not once but three times a year, serving power art collectors in every corner of the globe: Basel in June, Miami Beach in …
Hong KongSocial Media Erupts as the Art World Splits in Two Over Dana Schutz Controversy
Art World<p>The art world is not a monolith, social media posts reveal.<p>,<p>It all started on Facebook.<p>One week ago, the very day the Whitney Biennial …
ArtistsLeidy Churchman at Koelnischer Kunstverein
The artist Leidy Churchman is concerned with the question of how images are perceived and processed in the present age, when visual stimuli display …
Contemporary ArtUber CEO linked to escort bar visit that resulted in an HR complaint
In case you were counting, it has been more than a month since Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced an investigation into claims of sexual harassment and discrimination within his company. Tonight <i>The Information</i> reports that in 2014, Kalanick senior VP of business Emil Michael and several other …
UberMuseum rescues sculptor Camille Claudel from decades of obscurity
French artist, once the lover of Auguste Rodin, has her career celebrated with opening of museum in Nogent-sur-Seine<p>Two elderly ladies sit side by side, one English, one French, one smartly dressed, one wearing clothes that were already very old fashioned by the late 1920s when the photograph was …
Art HistorySao Paulo street art debate over what makes cities livable
AP Radio AP Radio News:<p>Latest News<p>SAO PAULO (AP) -- When completed in 2015, the mayor's office hailed the graffiti panels along Avenida 23 de Maio as Latin America's largest open-air mural - 70 works of street art stretching for more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) along a boulevard connecting a …
Street Art[NSFW] Kitsch Meets Cat Lactation in Tslil Tsemet's Giant Oil Paintings - Creators
<i>In the late 19th century, Southern California attracted misfits, idealists, and entrepreneurs with few ties to anyone or anything. Swamis, spiritualists, and other self-proclaimed religious authorities quickly made their way out West to forge new faiths. Independent book publishers, motivational</i> …
PaintingPhotographer creates realistic locations for miniature photography on a budget
We enjoy presenting you with creative photographers who shoot miniatures, make stuff on the budget, or take realistic photos of miniatures. Indian …
PhotographyChristian Louboutin and CJ Hendry Unveil New Exhibition
Unlikely collaborations have become a common thread in the fashion industry. So, when Christian Loboutin, the famed shoe designer associated with …
FashionSunnyvale man sets records, wows locals with his Chinese art
Yuejin Wang has wowed people locally in the South Bay and all the way to China with his “hollow calligraphy” and paper snowflakes. He’s even broken …
Chinese ArtWhy the Art World's Rising Tastemaker Is One to Follow for Fashion
Kimberly Drew's résumé looks nothing like that of your average 26-year-old. Not only is she the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of …
FashionStunning Collages Erupt from the Mind of This Turkish Artist - Creators
The unexpected union of unrelated stock photos builds a dreamlike universe in the collages of Turkish artist and graphic designer Hüseyin Şahin. Working in photoshop, Şahin pulls images from stock photography agencies like Shutterstock and transforms their universal appeal into bewildering, surreal …
Artists'Hamilton' Provided The Congressional Meme America Deserved
Once again, the beloved musical was there when we needed it.<p>For some readers, today is just another Friday. For those paying intensely close attention to the American Health Care Act, the GOP’s proposed bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, today is ... well, just another Friday in …
Lin-Manuel MirandaPump Up the Volumes: Hefty Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonné Sheds New Light on Luminous Paintings
Richard Diebenkorn, <i>Seated Figure with Hat</i>, 1967.<p>©2017 THE RICHARD DIEBENKORN FOUNDATION/NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C.<p>Catalogues raisonnés …
PaintingThe Self-Described Daily Routines of History’s Most Prolific Minds
There is no single path to insane greatness. Picasso and Gogh are both artistic geniuses, but they pursued very different routines to stay prolific. …
Vincent Van GoghReclaiming Race and History Through Photography
Sarah Lewis’s career path started long before she became an assistant professor of art history and African-American studies at Harvard, or held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern.<p>It began in 1926 with a simple question her grandfather Shadrach Emmanuel Lee asked in …
MOMAKinetic art
The Bavarian artist Reiner Fischer makes mobile artworks out of steel, tin, wire - anything he can find. His imaginative pieces center on the theme of mobility, via diving, hot air ballooning or flying.
Large expansion OK'd for La Jolla art museum
San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art got approval on Thursday to double the size of its La Jolla campus, add ocean view terraces and convert its …
Art MuseumsDarius Moreno Is The Artist Who Wants To Bring The DMV To The World
The cover illustrator behind GoldLink’s new album At What Cost has a distinctive visual style inspired by Go-Go and ballroom culture.<p>I first came …
Rap & Hip-HopAmerican and Soviet interwar art was remarkably similar
There are two exhibitions on at London’s Royal Academy, each presenting a contrasting perspective on the visual expressions of the interwar years in …
AestheticsGet Caught in a Splinter Shower in These Graphite-on-Wood Works - Creators
To the artistic mind, the dichotomy between the natural world, and the destruction of man is a never-ending source for creative pursuits. From a huge spacious sky overlooking a landfill of rubber tires, to the chipped walls of a refugee camp surrounded by rubble surrounded by rubble, street artist …