Below are links to articles, websites, and news related to the Arts.
October 2021
- American history as seen through quilts
- 100 Renaissance portraits on display at the Rijks museum
- A Baroque masterpiece was hiding in plain sight
- A newly identified Van Gogh drawing goes on display
- The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is wrapped in fabric a la Christo
- A short shiny history of gold and art
September 2021
- Mexican Artists Create Fantastical Masks To Show The Many Faces Of COVID
- The Audubon mural project in New York City depicts threatened bird species
- Imagining a different African history through art
- An underwater sculpture museum in the Mediterranean
- A new film about the mysterious Salvatore Mundi (attributed to Leonardo da Vinci)
- Banksy murals in England defaced days after they appeared
- An 80 year old Feminist artist gets recognition
- Artwork based on seeds and biodiversity
- A herd of elephants has taken over London
July 2021
- Frida Kahlo on display in Chicago
- A newly rediscovered Kandinsky sells for 1.3 million
- Interview with the director of a new film “Under a Pagan Sky”
- Unsettling works of art – viewing natural disasters as art
- Ruth Asawa sculptures
May 2021
- A new Artemisia Gentileschi goes on display at the Getty
- Is this a lost Caravaggio?
- African Modernist masterpieces found hidden in rural Scotland
- A new museum of Inuit art in Canada
- How poetry and math intersect
- Solar Mountain is architecture that produces renewable energy
- Art forger who almost got away with it
- Goddess Flora statue is not a Leonardo after all
April 2021
- Listen to Robert Frost read his poetry
- A statue of RBG is installed in her native Brooklyn
- Calder’s work is digitized
- AI brings ancient portraits to life
- Amanda Gorman reads her poem, ‘The Miracle of Morning’ (video)
- Fresco project highlights Biblical women
- A Titian was hiding in plain sight
- The first AI written play is performed
- A new Hans Christian Anderson museum
- MOMA – a century of women photographers
- For the First Time in Its 200-Year History, the Rijksmuseum Features Women Artists in ‘Gallery of Honour’
March 2021
- Guerilla art – statue of the slave who accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition put up in the middle of the night
- Possibly the best dance routine ever – Cab Calloway (video)
- A rare Van Gough from a private collection goes on sale
- Digital artwork goes on sale for the first time
- You can now purchase Gee’s Bend quilts on line
- Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring can now be viewed in intricate up close detail
- New research suggests Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi originally looked different
February 2021
- Highest resolution photos of snowflakes ever taken
- Botticelli portrait sells for $92 million
- Printing the Revolution – graphic arts
- Joe Biden’s poignant inaugural painting
- Poet Amanda Gorman reads at the Biden Inauguration (video)
More…
- Art of the absurd: What the MAGA selfies at the Capitol riot reveal
- Tin Tin comic book art sells for $3.2 million
- Photo-realist portraits by Robert McCurdy
- Is this painting an overlooked El Greco?
- The iconic Rider-Waite Tarot deck has entered public domain
December 2020
- Nature and artifice collide at the Renwick invitational
- Bring great art into your home via augmented reality
- Is this drawing a lost Leonardo da Vinci?
- Danish art exhibition explores the Witch trials in Northern Europe
- Step into Starry Night by Van Gogh
- Support independent book sellers! Buy books here.
November 2020
- The Art of Hilma af Klint – did she invent abstract art?
- Prado exhibit in Spain was supposed to be about women artists, misses the mark
- THE REDEMPTION OF ROSA BONHEUR, a forgotten French artist
- From Latvia – music in praise of oak trees (video)
- National Portrait Gallery Accepting Entries for Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
- The Mellon Foundation pledges $250 million to re-invent Americas monuments
- The annual Witch Paddle in pictures
- Mexican Day of the Dead costumes are amazing!
- A Long-Awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibit in London
- By Toutates! Asterix and the Pagan revival
October 2020
- A painting thought a fake may be a genuine Rembrandt
- Is there a hidden drawing under the Mona Lisa?
- A rare Botticelli portrait goes on sale
- Photographs from the last quiet places on Earth
- Colorized photos of 1913 Ireland
September 2020
- Make yourself a vegetable orchestra (and eat it afterwards)
- Spooky, soul-piercing ‘Jesus Lamb’ face is exactly what its original artists intended
- A 9 foot public statue of a black woman is unveiled in London
August 2020
- Battle of the Bums – museums battle over who has the best bum
- A virtual art installation from Cork, Ireland, about the Covid-19 pandemic
- A new 50 ft statue honors Lakota and Dakota women (video)
- For fans of Medieval music (video)
July 2020
- Barcelona opera plays music for audience of over 2000 plants
- Alexandra Bell gets 2018 Infinity Award (video)
- An early short story by Louisa May Alcott is published for the first time
- Botched restoration makes the Virgin Mary unrecognizable
- Phyllis Wheatley, enslaved African poet
- After centuries portrait is identified as Mary Boleyn
- Leonardo’s quick eye may be the key to the Mona Lisa’s smile
- Microbes that attack ancient art works
- France proposes a monument for victims of slavery, seeks proposals
- Hanging Klansmen art installation stuns and makes a point
- New fence around the White House becomes a canvas for protestors
- Artists worldwide respond to the murder of George Floyd
- Internet archive sued for copyright infringement
- Music for the times we are in now….
June 2020
- Transform your selfies, pet portraits into artistic styles using this APP
- An APP that brings rain, puffins, the aurora borealis into your living room
- Daniel Radcliff reads Harry Potter, a video audiobook
May 2020
- Cheesehenge and other historical homages
- A painted village in Poland
- Sound artist seeks Haikus for global pandemic
- Joy Harjo, First Native American Writer to Be Named U.S. Poet Laureate, Reappointed for Second Term
- Colorized photos of the last Romanov costume ball – in 1903
- Why the Beatles split up – the inside story of the breakup of the band
- Bored, quarantined couple create a museum for gerbils
- And another one for geckos
- Hear daily Shakespeare sonnets read by Sir Patrick Stewart (be still my beating heart!)
- Native women artists reclaim their narrative
- Forest animals by Finnish Photographer
- Museum asks people to replicate famous paintings with household objects
April 2020
February 2020
- First cat in space gets a statue
- Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks are now on line
- The women behind the pre-Raphaelites
- Download all Audubon bird prints for free
- Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell’s birthday by putting hats on surveillance cameras
- Gravity-Defying Sculpture of Mother Nature Rotating Earth
- The mystery of the glass orb in Leonardo’s “Salvatore Mundi”
- Is this a work by Renaissance master Albrecht Durer?
January 2020
December 2019
- Stunning wild life drawings by a little known master
- Photographs tell the story of climate change
- Baltimore Museum of Art Will Collect Works Exclusively by Women in 2020
More… - Unidentified Botticelli is found in a Welsh storeroom
- Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I go on exhibit
- A rare portrait of teenaged Mozart up for sale
- Golden Ages Dutch female painters finally get a show
- Objects that tell the untold history of women
- Hidden water lily found beneath a Monet painting
- Feminist art exhibitions planned for the run up to the 2020 election
- We need new Fairy Tales to cope with modern life
- Climate photos of the year – winners
November 2019
- Why Rennaissance artists favored the contraposto stance
- Resurrecting a maverick of the aesthetic movement
- 2019 wildlife photo of the year (plus runners up)
- Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003) – Short Film
- Photographer documents worlds most dramatic ritual masks
- Greta Thunberg’s UN speech set to music by Fatboy Slim
- A sculpture controlled by live honeybees
- Vincent Van Gogh had a female art teacher
- Thieves Return Hand Stolen From Montreal Totem Pole, With an Apology Note
October 2019
- Bagpipe swing music!
Possible Cimabue worth 6 million found in elderly woman’s apartment
The gleefully indecent poems of a Medieval Feminist poet