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Featured work by artist Mark Stebbins. Based in London, Ontario, Mark Stebbins creates acrylic paintings that explore the connections between digital imaging, craft histories, artistic labor, and memory. Using a combination of brushstroke and pen drawing techniques, Stebbins applies tiny smears of acrylic paint to layers of surface to create illusions of textiles, brushstrokes, and pixelation. He is inspired by various visual histories of painting and textile traditions (particularly those specific to the American Southwest, where he hails from), as well as contemporary digital imaging and AI-rendered images. “I think of my painting process as a form of conceptual layering,…
Hundreds of visual and performing arts venues in Florida were shocked to learn that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis had vetoed $32 million in state budget funding for arts and culture. DeSantis signed the decision on Wednesday, June 12, just weeks before the start of the fiscal year on July 1—the first time in the state’s history that the cultural sector has been left in complete limbo. In the state’s $117 billion proposed budget, the state arts and culture department initially proposed allocating $77 million to meet the needs of 630 eligible nonprofit organizations, which can each The grants were for…
ArtMirren Brown-EvansEdward Wordsworth, Bright interval1928. Image courtesy of Pallant House Gallery.Throughout art history, still life has often been relegated to a “low” art form. For example, the 17th-century Italian painter Andrea Sacchi ranked it below landscape, and in the 18th century, Royal Academy founder Joshua Reynolds ranked it below landscape, portraiture and history painting. For centuries, the lifeless and sometimes predictable nature of still life subjects — skulls, globes, heavy books and sumptuous meals — has left some art critics cold. Yet, despite attempts to relegate still life to the lowest rung of the artistic hierarchy, the genre is now…
New exhibition at Pratt’s Manhattan gallery, Live in imagination, Centered on the work of seven Pratt Institute MFA photography alumni, the exhibition explores what it means to imagine, dream, and create in the 21st century, a time of accelerating social and technological change. The exhibition opens Friday, June 28, with a reception on Thursday, June 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. Organized by artist, curator, and Pratt Visiting Associate Professor Sara VanDerBeek, the exhibition brings together in dialogue the work of seven Pratt alumni from the classes of 2021-2023, and features solo works by six graduates from the class of…
On Tuesday, Christie’s London Classics Week evening sales – the Old Masters Part I and the Masters sale – brought in a combined total of nearly $65 million. The former was headlined by Titian’s Rest during the Flight to Egypt (c. 1510), sold for $22,178,280, setting a new auction record for the artist.The wood panel, measuring 46 x 62.9 cm, depicts Mary holding Jesus as Joseph looks on and is estimated at $20-30 million. It last sold at Christie’s in 1878 when it was bought by the 4th Marquess of Bath. Christie’s said before the sale: “This is one of…
A long-lost painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner that was labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis and languished in a German private collection for more than 80 years has sold for 7 million euros ($7.5 million) at Berlin’s Ketterer Art Gallery. Diverse Tan (1911), previously thought lost and known only from black-and-white photographs, reappeared at auction on June 7, exceeding its high estimate of €2 million ($2.1 million). The 4-by-5-foot painting was created during Kirchner’s tenure as leader of the Bridge Group, an artist group closely associated with German Expressionism. It depicts a black man dancing with a white woman at a…
Moi Aussi is Etnia Barcelona’s ultimate commitment to art. Bringing together artists from around the world, Moi Aussi reimagines a different kind of canvas – a pair of spectacles that seek to transcend cultural differences and ensure that the true purpose of art is not limited by any boundaries. More than 50 artists participated in the Art Eyewear project, creatively interpreting anonymous glasses with absolute freedom of imagination. Through a journey of exploration, choice of colors, materials and finishes, each artist shaped his or her own work, transforming an everyday object into a work of art. To further its commitment…
ArtCathy LesserInstallation view of works by Lorna Simpson and Ellen Sarrett at the exhibition “Day as Night: The New American Realism” at Palazzo Barberini, Rome. Photo: Alberto Novelli. Courtesy of the Aïshti Foundation. This 2018 ink and acrylic painting by Lorna Simpson depicts a series of blue-toned brick building facades in a photographic style. Day for nightRefers to a film technique where a night scene is filmed during the day, a classic example of cinematic technique. Currently, Simpson’s painting hangs in a dazzling neo-Rococo apartment on the top floor of Rome’s Palazzo Barberini. There, it is the focus of a…
Otto Dix’s work “The Lens is Bombed” war (The War) (Der Krieg) (1924), etching and drypoint (all photos courtesy of Natalie Haddad/Allergic） LOS ANGELES — Just over a hundred years ago, in 1912, Otto Dix painted “Self-Portrait with Carnations.” Two years later, the world in which this Renaissance-inspired work was created was no longer. World War I had begun, and the Europe of Hans Baldung Grien and Hans Holbein seemed unrecognizable. But Dix, the Nietzschean, knew better. Resentment and oppression were ever-present, fighting against the will to liberate. In 1914, they triumphed. That year, the world changed irrevocably, with effects…
At the recent 1839 Photography Awards, Flamingo Miles Astray’s (2024) won multiple awards in the AI-generated art category. It took first place in the People’s Vote Award in the AI category and third place in the AI-generated art category. There was just one problem: the photo was real, leading organizers to disqualify the photo from the competition. Astray submitted this real-life photo of a pink flamingo with its head wrapped around itself against a white background to the competition to demonstrate that human creativity remains relevant amid the rise of AI art. “The twist is this: the photo is as…