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24 Dec Did a Royal Painter Hide a Scandalous Secret in This Portrait?

Posted at 12:18h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

When the grapevine is proving a little bare but a thirst for gossip takes over, why not uncover a centuries old scandal? Luckily for today’s art historians, some artists were pretty shameless about hiding a few salacious hints about their private lives in an otherwise...

24 Dec 7 Thrift Store Finds That Turned Into Fortunes in 2024

Posted at 12:00h in Uncategorized by Sofia Hallstrom

Discovering a hidden treasure in an unexpected place is a thrill like no other. In 2024, artworks and valuable artifacts didn’t just turn up in the most surprising locations—from thrift stores to musty old attics—some of them made quite the mint on the auction block....

24 Dec The Math—and Mystery—Behind an Ancient Counting Device

Posted at 10:01h in Uncategorized by Tim Brinkhof

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving beads that represent numbers. People living in Congo’s Ishango region 20,000 years ago etched notches...

24 Dec 5 Key Renaissance Masterpieces at Buckingham Palace

Posted at 09:48h in Uncategorized by Verity Babbs

At Buckingham Palace’s King’s Gallery, is a show of Italian Renaissance royalty. “Drawing the Italian Renaissance” is filled with masterpieces from the epoch by some of the most famous artists who have ever lived. The exhibition, containing around 160 works made between 1450 and 1600 (more...

24 Dec From Hippos to Hot Rodents: The Year’s Best Art-Inspired Memes

Posted at 08:15h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

Though 2024 wasn’t a banner year in many respects, the internet can at least congratulate itself on yet another annual bumper crop of memes. And let’s not forget the role of art in making it happen! In the search for an oddly relatable scene or sentiment...

24 Dec At 77, Artist Penny Slinger Wants Augmented Reality to Catch Up With Her

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized by Adam Schrader

The famed 77-year-old feminist surrealist Penny Slinger, best known for her provocative photo collage books has taken on a new medium: augmented reality. The artist recently partnered with the blockchain art marketplace Kaleido as the first celebrity artist to experiment with its new augmented reality...

24 Dec American Gothic: Caricature of Iowa, or Celebration of Rural America?

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized by Tim Brinkhof

Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter, pictured in front of their country house (based on a real building the painter encountered in...

23 Dec Robert Smithson’s 'Spiral Jetty' Joins National Register of Historic Places

Posted at 21:20h in Art, Hypebeast, Latest News by Erin Ikeuchi

Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Regarded as one of the most significant land art works in the world, the designation will aid the piece’s long-term preservation, underscoring its cultural and environmental importance. The...

23 Dec An Art Lover’s Guide to Japan’s Island Paradise Naoshima

Posted at 20:33h in Uncategorized by Felipe Gonzalez Carrizosa

Located in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Naoshima is part of a cluster islands that includes Teshima and Inujima, where art and nature merge. At the heart of this project is renowned architect Tadao Ando, whose minimalist concrete designs seamlessly blend with the surroundings. His multiple...

23 Dec Black Sculptor Steps Into the Spotlight After Decades of Obscurity

Posted at 19:00h in Uncategorized by @sarahecascone

Tucked away on a quiet residential street in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, inside a stately 19th-century townhouse, you can catch the work of Helen Evans Ramsaran, in her solo show of new works at Welancora Gallery. Chances are, you haven’t heard of Ramsaran, an 81-year-old Black...