experience the Gods and Lovers: Paintings and Sculptures from India Exhibit at the Ringling Museum is like a life-size play of “I Spy”. Throughout the gallery, paintings offer vibrant color and intriguing detail – many so intricate that a magnifying glass is needed to discern them. dr Rhiannon Paget, Curator of Asian … Read more
Drawings, photographs, written correspondence, published articles, and graphic design work from the Treasury Archives of American artist Mary Dill Henry have been digitized and become a permanent part of the university archives and special collections of the Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where Henry resided in studied with Bauhaus … Read more
An autistic teenager who was told “she wouldn’t make it far in art” illustrated her first children’s book after being discovered by a publisher. Amelia Hatt was just 15 when the first lockdown caused by the Covid pandemic hit in March 2020. She had just moved to North West England from Wales and didn’t know … Read more
Firelei Baez, Madeline (Rupture Rapture Maroonage), 2022. All photographs by Jackie Furtado. All images courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Firelei Báez was lecturing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when I called her from Miami. Art Basel Miami Beach was coming to an end and the crowd of out-of-town … Read more
Fans are wondering if rumored couple Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid is really a thing after the actor was spotted acting it out and partying with models in Miami last week. That Once upon a time in Hollywood star, 48, was photographed by paparazzi wearing a black face mask, black baseball cap, crisp button-down, jeans … Read more
art market Josie Thaddeus-Johns With the upheaval of 2020 and 2021 caused by the pandemic, the art world had high hopes that 2022 would be a time for the market to return to its form. In a way, we got that. Several major collections made it onto the auction block following postponements during the pandemic: … Read more
As a child, there are many “what if” questions: “What if a bee stings me?” “What if I forget my lines in the school play?” “What if people don’t like me?” At the heart of all of these questions is the desire to know, “Will everything be okay?” This is the title of a 1977 … Read more
This article was originally published at The conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Chari Larson (opens in new tab)Lecturer in Art History, Griffith University December 7th marks the 50th anniversary of the Blue Marble (opens in new tab) Photo. The astronauts on NASA’s Apollo … Read more
This year, Food Tank is featuring 21 titles to spark young readers’ interest in the food they eat and the world around them. These books for the young and young at heart tell the stories of community gardens, celebrate dishes shared between generations, and offer new recipes for readers and their guardians to prepare at … Read more
With the cost of living crisis taking a huge toll on many people and their finances, more and more people seem to be looking to sideline jobs to make ends meet. But what if you could make a fortune creating digital artwork of colorful whales online? 3 13-year-old Benyamin Ahmed had made a fortune from … Read more