Recording under quarantine, a musical trio gives a classic blues song an Arabic twist, exploring new depths for Black-Palestinian solidarity. [+972 Magazine] For Kareem Samara, a British-Palestinian multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound artist, it…
Timothy Spall’s teenage obsessions: ‘For my art A-level I nailed up apples covered in pubic hair’
The actor on studying with the Sex Pistols, being in a Bowie tribute act, the appeal of Roxy Music, the help of teachers and the power of surrealism Continue reading…
An interesting Chinese Art form: Inside Painted Snuff Bottle
An interesting Chinese art form I found While collecting artwork, particularly on Chinese antique and modern art, I found Chinese snuff bottles are my favorite. So want to share it with the members here. See if there is anyone who loves this small craf…
This is the first layer in the internet onion.
This website, the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com, will live from August 11th through September 14th, 2021 — about 5 weeks total, the average lifespan of a non-refrigerated onion. From the About (which is not linkable):
The “internet onion” is…
‘Forgotten masters’: auction shines light on India’s overlooked artists
Paintings commissioned by East India Company in 18th and 19th century up for sale at Sotheby’sRemarkable paintings of the flora and fauna of India, including a work once owned by Jackie Kennedy Onassis depicting a stork eating a snail, are to go on sal…
【リポートと感想】「Cryptoの設計: NFTに隠されたゴールド」 #CEDEC2021 #classmethod_game
ゲームソリューション部のヒューゴです。 ちょっと前にNFTが初耳でしたが、軽く調べたら少し異世界のように理解できなく、納得しづらい部分があって、CEDECのセッションテーブルにNFTについての講座があったので、興味深く視 […]…
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder obituary
Celebrated artist admired for her paintings of flowers and the first woman to be elected to both the Royal and Royal Scottish academiesIn 1994, the year that Damien Hirst made his first vitrined sheep, Away from the Flock, pickled in formaldehyde, the …
Chuck Close 1940 – 2021
Photorealist painter and printer Chuck Close died yesterday at the age of 81. One of the most prominent of the photorealistic painters of the late 60s and early 70s, Close painted immense, highly detailed canvas portraits from photos he would take of h…
Chuck Close obituary
Painter of huge portraits that explored the relationship between painting and photographyIn the 1960s Chuck Close, fresh from art school, was sitting in a New York restaurant when Jasper Johns walked in, passing by his fellow diners in total anonymity …
In your face: how Chuck Close built images and tore them apart
Face blindness meant the photorealist artist, who has died aged 81, had to dismantle and reconstitute, making every cell of his pixellated portraits ever more dramaticChuck Close, painter of outsized photorealist portraits, dies aged 81Hugely enlarged,…