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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Painting With Blood: Who Does It and Who Collects It

Blood is used as a medium in contemporary art, challenging traditional boundaries of artistic practice.
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fromHyperallergic
23 hours ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
Film
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and Many More

Hollywood faces a crisis with declining interest in films, prompting a search for re-enchantment through experimental cinema.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 week ago

This Artist Creates Dark Wood-Burned Illustrations Exploring Identity And The Human Psyche

Robb is an Italian artist known for his intricate pyrography, creating dark, psychological imagery that explores themes of identity and isolation.
#surrealism
fromArtforum
3 weeks ago

Struggle Bus

The influx of art-world characters had come and gone, albeit in reduced numbers due to the winter storms out east, and they had done their yearly duty of complaining to me about the traffic.
Los Angeles
#art
fromIrish Independent
1 week ago
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'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago
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'Reality Decay' Is at the Root of All the Bad News | Artnet News

Reality is deteriorating, influenced by fantasies and historical contexts of violence and exploitation, as illustrated by Paul Chan's artwork inspired by Sade.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator, a painting by Hermione von Preuschen, symbolizes the transience of power and fame, returning to Berlin after over a century of controversy.
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fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
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fromArtnet News
6 days ago

How Kees van Dongen Shaped Fauvism

Kees van Dongen was a pivotal figure in Fauvism, known for his experimental use of color and dynamic portraiture.
#van-gogh
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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Van Gogh's yellow: more than just a color

Yellow holds significant meaning for Van Gogh, symbolizing brilliance and modernity during his time in Arles, influencing his iconic Sunflowers series.
Writing
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Van Gogh's yellow: more than just a color

Yellow holds significant meaning for Van Gogh, symbolizing brilliance and modernity during his time in Arles, influencing his iconic Sunflowers series.
fromOpen Culture
6 days ago

How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

The work of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning wound up as part of a secret CIA program during the height of the Cold War, aimed at promoting American ideals abroad.
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#contemporary-art
Berlin music
fromThe New Yorker
4 weeks ago

What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital

Egon Schiele's distinctive distorted body depictions were shaped by his relationship with Dr. Erwin von Graff, who provided access to patients at a Vienna women's clinic.
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fromMission Local
1 week ago

Blood, mud and a cobweb create ache of heartbreak at Asian Art Museum

Chiharu Shiota's exhibition explores themes of personal loss and connection through intricate art pieces made from blood, mud, and yarn.
#salvador-daliacute
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, but he did not win the Best Picture award despite the film's success in other categories.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - David Salle "My Frankenstein" @ Spruth Magers, Los Angeles

David Salle integrates AI-generated imagery with traditional painting techniques, using machine learning models trained on his own work as new visual "givens" to respond to creatively.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild the week in art

Estonia's modernist painter Konrad Magi is featured in an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from March to July.
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Gus Van Sant's Adventures in Painting

When I was a kid, I was painting, as a few of my classmates were, because my teacher was a painter. We were making paintings and different things as well - silkscreens for dances or basketball games, mobiles ... It was around 1963, so a lot of different types of artistic endeavours were happening, which played into what he was teaching us. That was kind of where I started.
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Monet and Van Gogh Masterpieces Hit the Shampoo Aisle | Artnet News

Dove launched a limited edition hair care collection featuring artworks by Monet, Cassatt, and Van Gogh, inspired by art conservators and available at Walmart.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

As theschool's student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student Nick Dwyer. The incident was an eyebrow-raising illustration of the collective exhaustion with being surrounded by the outputs of generative AI, a fierce debate that has gripped the art world.
Higher education
Photography
fromArtforum
2 months ago

Sadie Benning's watercolors

Daily Forecasts use psychically received words as search terms to build photo-based digital collages later painted as analog-feeling 4x6 watercolor postcards.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Six great reads: Mondrian's hidden inspiration, the friendship secret and heat for Heated Rivalry

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. Trump called me down to the Oval Office,' John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland ' The US president's friend Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, is now making deals in the island. Guardian investigations correspondent Tom Burgis explored the reasons behind Trump and Lauder's fixation with Greenland. Read more
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Beautiful Occult Hand Embroidery By Adipocere, Weaving Macabre Maidens And Danse Macabre On Line

Melbourne embroidery artist Adipocere creates intricate macabre illustrations on natural linen, blending innocence with unsettling melancholy through occult and surrealist themes exploring death, impermanence, and existential concepts.
#artist-studio-practice
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fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Private Nightmares: Francisco Rodriguez @ Baert Gallery, Los Angeles

Rodriguez paints memories of vanished places using flattened compositions and muted palettes informed by historical artistic traditions, exploring contemporary anxieties through figures seeking escape from digital isolation.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Absolutely transformative': Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work

Willem de Kooning's 1948 solo exhibition at Charles Egan Gallery launched his international career, establishing him as a pre-eminent painter by the 1950s through his innovative exploration of figuration and abstraction.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Edvard Munch's formative influence on Paula Rego revealed in unearthed painting

Edvard Munch's 1951 Tate exhibition profoundly influenced 16-year-old Paula Rego, shaping her artistic development and figurative painting style for decades.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour

A new monograph repositions Armenian-Lebanese painter Haroutiun Galentz as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work transcends national boundaries and demands cross-border interpretation.
#abstract-expressionism
#lucian-freud
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fromwww.jezebel.com
1 month ago

There's Not Enough Women Beheading Men in Art Anymore

Renaissance art frequently depicted women beheading men in biblical scenes, particularly Judith and Holofernes and Salome with John the Baptist's head, representing a powerful artistic tradition largely absent from contemporary art.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Breathtaking Grotesque Illustrations Capturing Humanity's Darkest Corners by Vergvoktre

A diverse array of contemporary visual works spans photography, illustration, street art, tattoos, sculpture, anime, and dark cinematic painting.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Francis Bacon Portrait from Billionaire Joe Lewis's Collection Heads to Auction

Frieze New York returns to the Shed May 13-17 with strong Latin American presence; India Art Fair sees surging South Asian sales and million‑dollar works.
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fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

8 signs you appreciate art, music, and culture on a deeper level than most people - Silicon Canals

Some people experience art deeply, reacting emotionally and perceiving subtle artistic cues that reveal heightened sensitivity and meaningful connections to creative expression.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

Joanne Greenbaum combines diverse media and mark-making to create cohesive paintings where individual elements retain distinctiveness, blending stillness with accelerating movement.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Incredible Dark Ritual Imagery Exploring Death, Loneliness And Mythic Gates by Benjamin Malejko

A curated showcase of diverse visual works spanning illustrations, dark concept art, photography winners, humorous designs, reimagined logos, and imaginative digital and portrait art.
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fromColossal
2 months ago

Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

Martin Wittfooth paints surreal flora-and-fauna scenes that probe interconnection, community, and nature's endurance through enigmatic compositions.
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fromianVisits
2 months ago

The world's most meme-famous painting is heading to Tate Britain

A major James McNeill Whistler retrospective, featuring around 150 works including iconic self-portraits and landscapes, opens at Tate Britain on 21 May 2026.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

John Altoon's Fever Dream Drawings

John Altoon abandoned abstraction to create dreamlike, sexually charged drawings that challenged formalist norms and emphasized imaginative, unsettling figure work.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

The studio is at my house within a ranch, surrounded by nature. It's on the second floor of the house, where there's better light. My routine all day shifts between studio work and housework, including outdoor garden work. I get up a bit before 7am, drink coffee in the yard, and get morning sunshine. Then my husband and I eat breakfast and do a bit of cleaning or some chores in the garden.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

An artist in a Bronx studio paints multiple figurative works simultaneously, drawing inspiration from local institutions, music, and the neighborhood's vibrancy.
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