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…
A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by cheeky mason found in Spain 900 years on
He is a medieval in-joke, a male figure carved in the early 12th century for one of the world’s greatest cathedrals, but no one has known of his existence until now. The figure has gone unnoticed by millions of worshippers…
Nigerian Actor, Kunle Afolayan Flaunts Art-Inspired Interior of His Home (PHOTOS)
Nollywood actor and filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, has shared photos of his art-inspired interior of his serene home on social media. Kunle Afolayan revealed he showcased his vintage and artistic interior of his home because a group of young architects requested…
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…
Is Modern Landscape Photography Really Art or Is It Fake?
You can learn so much about yourself and photography by briefly getting familiar with art history. But is photography art in the first place? Since I became a landscape photographer, my enjoyment of visiting art museums has increased by a…
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…
Take a look at the world’s largest painting
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
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…