The sky and the universe, with its stars and planets, held a primal spot in ancient Egyptian ontologies with the gods and goddesses of this domain featured prominently in both written myth and visual culture. According to ancient Egyptian myth, the sky and all it contained was one of the first things to be created.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a photographer based in Los Angeles. He takes photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, communicating with the vast history of figurative photography and portraiture. His work often uses reflective surfaces and fabrics complicating the compositions and often including his images and or the image of the camera as an apparatus in the frame.
British artist and director Steve McQueen has decided to skip the 32nd iteration of Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival following a contentious article written by the festival’s founder and CEO, Marek Żydowicz.
The Dutch MPV Gallery, located in the southern town of Oisterwijk, was the target of a semi-botched heist last Friday, November 1st, when CCTV caught thieves storming in at around three in the morning.Using explosives to bypass the gallery's front entrance, which resulted in the door handle being thrown about 160 feet, the perpetrators hastily left with four silkscreens from Andy Warhol’s 1985 series “Reigning Queens.”
There has always been great discourse over the worth and impact that the arts have had on the American public education system. Under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the arts are recognized as a core academic subject. Despite this, it has taken a lot of work to pave this path and it still isn’t all that well implemented.
At the Louvre Museum in Paris, amongst the various works of art, is a painting with a tragic, yet captivating, story behind it. The Raft of Medusa was painted in 1819 by Théodore Géricault, an ambitious artist eager to achieve fame and glory.
If you ever find yourself driving coast to coast across the United States, you’ll likely spend a good few hours cutting along the vast cornfields and flat farmlands of the midwest. While waiting for the horizon to never get any closer, a splice of color— a multi-colored wooden square cresting a barn, to be exact— suddenly breaks through the golden browns and dusty greens of the crops.
Here are 10 ways to embody art this Halloween.
After years of hanging unsuspectingly in an Italian family home, a portrait that has now been attributed to Pablo Picasso is on the verge of official authentication. The titleless work, thought to be of Picasso’s long-time muse and mistress Dora Maar, was found in 1962 by a man named Luigi Lo Rosso, while cleaning out a cellar in Capri.
Art dealers, particularly those who have reached the heights of Scottish-born author/gallerist Michael Findlay (b.1945), are not known for openly sharing the nuts and bolts of a profession that thrives on exclusivity and lives and dies by “who-you-know.”
