Upon its completion next month, the 1,980-square-meter artwork will be cut into 60 pieces, which painter Sacha Jafri is auctioning off in the hope of raising $30 million for charity. Source: http://www.theprogressnews.com/news/nation/take-a-look-at-the-worlds-largest-painting-on-canvas/video_a61332f6-50dc-5925-b89b-bfa5d01c5772.html
The Arts
Beirut’s once-thriving cultural community was already at breaking point. Then the blast hit
At the moment that one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history blasted outwards from Beirut’s port and swept across the city, Zeina Arida, the director of Sursock Museum, was standing outside her office with two colleagues. The force of…
MIT and Microsoft build a new algorithm to find hidden links between historic paintings
If you use Twitter regularly, you must’ve come across celebrities as food tweet threads. Some examples are Rihanna as Indian food and Olly Alexander as cakes. The idea is to match the look and color of the food to the celeb’s clothes. Researchers from…
British Airways to sell art collection to ease Covid-19 pressures
Multimillion-pound collection features work by Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn Cool Edge by Bridget Riley, one of several pieces of art being auctioned by British Airways. Photograph: Sotheby’s/PA British Airways is selling its multimillion-pound art collection, including work by…
Vincent Kolo, Nigerian artist, wins $50,000 Nefertiti prize for African creativity
Vincent Kolo, a Nigerian, has won the $50,000 Nefertiti grand prize for creativity at the maiden edition of Africa Integration Day. In a statement by organisers of the event, Kolo won the prize with his artwork ‘The Cords of Yesterday’.…
Van Gogh and Gauguin letter about brothel visit sells for 210,000 euros
A letter penned by artists Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which details their visits to brothels, has been sold at auction for €210,600 ($236,632; £188,538). The letter was bought by the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation at the Drouot auction…
Explore Stunning Dreamscapes Through Artificial Architecture
A subculture of designers and artists—masters of fictional architecture—are at last getting their moment in the limelight. A new book, Dreamscapes & Artificial Architecture: Imagined Interior Design in Digital Art, which is being released with Gestalten publishing house on June 16, looks at…
Why Cecily Brown’s Lush Paintings Have Eternal Market Appeal
Painter Cecily Brown is best known for large-scale canvases filled with bravura brushstrokes that exert a certain visual magic. They reward long and careful looking, appearing abstract on first glance and eventually resolving into suggestive figures. Such compositions often conjure…
‘Billions’ Superlatives: Buff Artist Frank Grillo Steals the Show
First, an apology: We didn’t do any superlatives for last week’s episode of Billions. Too many other things got in the way—like reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the Game of Thrones series finale, a show that is way worse than Billions, and celebrating…
Ty: a dextrous artist who wove threads of UK rap culture together
Ty, who has died aged 47 of coronavirus, was a sharp and witty MC who ably nourished the UK hip-hop scene despite being ignored by the media Ben Chijioke, aka Ty. Photograph: no credit The death of British rapper Ty,…