The Zoom call had about 40 people on it – or that’s what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at the glamorous design agency had been called to welcome the growing company’s newest recruits. Its name…
Paintings
How Portugal keeps alive an iconic 500-year-old art form
IN AN OBSCURE alleyway near Lisbon’s Alcântara neighborhood, the Fábrica Sant’Anna has been producing azulejos—the Portuguese word for wall tiles—roughly the same way since the workshop’s founding in 1741. At long tables scattered with pots of myriad colors, artisans paint angels…
25 of the best illustration projects of 2020
We can’t believe it either, but it seems like 2020 is nearly over. We thought it a great opportunity, then, to look back at some of the best work of the year. We’ve teamed up with the Directory of Illustration to pick…
Talented Nigerian 3D Pencil Artist Go Viral After This Amazing Artwork – PHOTOS
We have chanced upon some amazing artwork of this talented Nigerian 3D pencil artist. The photos were shared on micro-blogging site, Twitter and netizens are really amazed with what the guy did with just a pencil. The name of the…
How Collectors Can Establish Meaningful Connections with Artists
Of all the sales that Ficus Interfaith—the creative moniker of artists Ryan Bush and Raphael Cohen—has made, one last summer remains among the most memorable. The buyer, the owner of an art collection the pair admires, expressed continued enthusiasm in…
Show Me the Monet: Banksy painting sells for £7.5m at auction – video
Banksy’s reimagining of Claude Monet’s impressionist water lilies has fetched more than £7.5m at auction, easily surpassing expectations. Show Me the Monet was created in 2005 and adds abandoned shopping trolleys and a traffic cone to the famous garden…
A painting that dares to stare back at you
Looking at pictures teaches you to live with uncertainty. Yes, there are other ways to learn the lesson. (Living through a pandemic will do it.) But if you want to combine an apprehension of strangeness and unknowability with mental absorption…
Painting of Poetic Commerce
The global pandemic has only magnified an existing loneliness epidemic. It didn’t create it. Yes, loneliness was an epidemic during the time we now refer to as “before” (like the pre-apocalypse world in a work of science fiction.) Even though we have…
Qi Baishi paintings worth £15k ‘bound for student flat’
Three Chinese watercolours which were bound for a student flat have been valued at £15,000. The paintings by Qi Baishi were found by auctioneers valuing the contents of a family home in Staffordshire. They had been bought in the 1950s…
Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting
A long lost painting authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a world record price of $450m in a dramatic auction in New York in 2017. The price stunned the art world and created a storm of attention…