For the past 15 years, Creative Pinellas has uplifted artists in Pinellas County through funding and exhibition opportunities. In January 2026, the organization closed its physical space in…
Read more The Gallery: “Rise” Creative Pinellas at PIEKaty Hessel Lily Bertrand-Webb “’Museums Without Men’… ‘The Story of Art Without Men’… these are tongue-in-cheek attention-grabbing titles. Because it raises awareness: why museums without men?” Katy Hessel…
Read more Katy Hessel Talks About Putting Women Artists Front and Center at Five Major MuseumsTravis Devouring His Coach, 2024 Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images Travis Kelce has much to celebrate — famous girlfriend, Super Bowl win, podcasting, general fame, etc. Still, based on…
Read more ‘Travis Kelce Devouring His Coach’4. Country Road in Provence by Night, May 1890 “It’s the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape,” wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo about the tone of…
Read more From The Starry Night to a wheatfield: Van Gogh’s darkest symbolATHENS, Greece (AP) — The music from “Madame Butterfly” and other major operas is known to Greek audiences largely through the recorded performances of Maria Callas, the U.S.-born…
Read more Festival at Greece’s ancient theaters dedicated to Maria Callas and century since her birthColours have a mind of their own. They keep secrets and hide shady pasts. Every colour we encounter in a great work of art, from the ultramarine that…
Read more From Picasso and Hokusai’s Prussian Blue to Vermeer’s shade of red: A history of art in 7 colours(Image credit: Museum of Fine Arts Boston) A new exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates the ‘strange and extreme’ world of the Rossetti family, who challenged conventions in art…
Read more The Rossettis: The ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ bohemians who shocked Victorian BritainThese biological traits of rabbits and hares also prompted association with fertility in otherwise disconnected cultures. In Aztec mythology, there was a belief in the Centzon Tōtōchtin –…
Read more The Easter Bunny: Evolution of a symbolAnother aspect of the canine psyche, consistently affirmed in art, is faithfulness. This comes across emphatically in the 19th-Century paintings of British painter Edwin Landseer. Hector, Nero and…
Read more From Gainsborough to Hockney: The 300-year-old pet portraitsSpeaking to BBC Culture, Jason Arkles, a Florence-based sculptor, teacher and art historian, and host of the podcast The Sculptor’s Funeral, is clearly in the second camp. “There…
Read more The original and most iconic male model5. The glass sphere in The Allegory of Faith (1670-74) Vermeer’s religious faith is expressed most forcefully in his late allegorical painting The Allegory of Faith. The main…
Read more Five hidden symbols in Vermeer’s paintingsHis shift from canvas painting to using pre-painted paper cutouts in The Dance II profoundly influenced generations of contemporary artists from Romare Bearden to Robert Motherwell and Pfaff.…
Read more Matisse’s The Dance: The masterpiece that changed historyOne of the most prolific forgers in US history, Mark Landis, spent 20 years posing as a philanthropist and donating fakes he’d created to over 50 museums, while…
Read more Vermeer’s secrets: Why we’re fascinated by art fakesThese two works capture the essence of the exhibition, which makes a connection almost entirely overlooked until now, linking the iconoclastic Cubist trio of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque…
Read more Trompe l’oeil and the images that fool the mindAutonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is an intense tingling sensation that some people feel when they hear certain sounds and see certain visual stimulants. Whispering and tapping quietly…
Read more ASMR: How whispering took over the internetWhat Cézanne reveals about the visual processing of the human mind Source link
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