The Best Watercolor Paint Pans and Pan Sets for Students and Beginners
March 5, 2021Even if you find time to paint only now and then, pan watercolor paints will be ready to go in an instant with just the application of water. Continue reading
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The Best Embossing Heat Guns for Multi-Media Projects
March 2, 2021Embossing projects are not the place to cut corners. While popular hacks include using a hairdryer or even an oven to set embossing powder into paper, neither of these options work as well as the real deal. A proper heat gun gets the job done right, as a hairdryer can blow the embossing powder away, […] Continue reading
Plants Embedded in Wax Sprout from Fragile Hands in Memory-Infused Works by Valerie Hammond
In Valerie Hammond’s series of wax drawings, protection is two-fold: the artist (previously) encases dried flowers and ferns in a thin layer of wax, preserving their fragile tissues long after they’ve been plucked from the ground. In outlining a pair of hands, she also secures a memory, or rather, “the essence of a gesture and the fleeting moment in which it was made.”
Centered on limbs lying flat on Japanese paper, the ongoing series dates back to the 1990s, when Hammond made the first tracing “partly in response to the death of a dear friend, whose beautiful hands I often found myself remembering.” She continued by working with family and friends, mainly women and children, to delineate their wrists, palms, and fingers. More Continue reading
Long-Running Fairs Focused on African, Oceanic, and Indigenous Art Move Online
February 26, 2021“This show has brought that world together,” one of the fair’s co-directors said. Continue reading
How Renoir Became a Leading Impressionist and Created an Enduring Style of His Own
February 25, 2021A guide to the artist’s life, career, and famous works. Continue reading
Judith F. Baca’s Iconic ‘Great Wall’ Mural Gets an Update, Thanks to a Major Grant
February 24, 2021The Los Angeles public artwork will get extended to the current moment, just in time for the Olympics. Continue reading
Charles Hill, Art Detective Who Helped Recover ‘The Scream,’ Has Died at 73
February 22, 2021He worked for Scotland Yard’s elite Art Squad solving some of the world’s greatest art heists. Continue reading
In Precedent-Defying Move, Prado Acquires Cubist Painting by María Blanchard
February 19, 2021Some claim that the work belongs with the Museo Reina Sofía, not the august Madrid institution. Continue reading
Otherworldly Ecosystems Populate Dense, Cross-Hatched Illustrations by Song Kang
February 16, 2021Packed with texture and depth, Song Kang’s ink-based drawings begin with “I wonder…I wonder how this will look compared to that, or I wonder if I can mix this and that,” she says. The Atlanta-based illustrator renders rich labyrinths populated by elements from land and sea that are depicted in an otherworldly manner: candy-colored liquid drips from a bonsai, fish and butterflies coexist in the same dense ecosystem, and a maze of M.C. More Continue reading
Milford Graves Dies at 79, Indianapolis Museum Apologizes for Job Listing Language, and More: Morning Links from February 15, 2021
February 15, 2021Here’s what we’re reading this morning. Continue reading
The Best Painting Grounds for Readying Your Surfaces
February 13, 2021If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. To properly prepare your painting surface, you need to cover it with some type of ground, depending on your medium of choice. The correct ground creates an ideal surface absorbency and tooth for your […] Continue reading
Restituted Van Gogh Portrait from London Collection to Sell at Christie’s
February 12, 2021It could potentially become one of the most expensive van Gogh works on paper ever sold. Continue reading
Teresa Burga, Pioneering Conceptual Artist Focused on Women and Labor, Has Died at 85
Her work receive international acclaim over the last decade following a period of obscurity. Continue reading
Message to Self: Only Connect
February 11, 2021Working alone and drawing on craft traditions, nomadic sculptor ektor garcia creates myriad fabric, metal, and ceramic works with communal import. Continue reading
Crackled, Billowing Bedsheets Disguise Miniature Ghosts by Ceramicist Lisa Agnetun
Adorable, mischievous, and undeniably spirited, the porcelain figures that Lisa Agnetun sculpts breathe new life into the simple, bedsheet silhouette we’ve long associated with ghosts. Brimming with personality and energy, the specters are similarly outfitted with asymmetric eye holes and fabric that bunches as their feet. “They’re dead souls, and I think it’s a challenge to make them come alive. It also gives me great pleasure and even hope to make this strong symbol of death into something playful and not scary at all,” Agnetun writes. More Continue reading
As Museums Push to Sell Art, Competing Ideas About Deaccessioning Are Playing Out in Public
February 8, 2021Museums were given leeway to sell art because of the pandemic. But when the Baltimore Museum of Art used the opening to address inequities, all hell broke loose. Continue reading
How Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Took 19th-Century Paris by Storm—and Went Down in History
February 5, 2021Over the course of his short career, he skyrocketed to fame with the city’s elite. Continue reading
In the Months After a Devastating Blast, Beirut’s Art Scene Searches for New Life
February 4, 2021The devastation killed close to 200 people, injured thousands, and left entire neighborhoods in ruins. Continue reading
Ricky Powell, Photographer Who Captured Intimate Images of Haring and Warhol, Has Died at 59
February 2, 2021The New York photographer was dubbed the “fourth Beastie Boy.” Continue reading
Rini Dippel, Curator Who Shaped Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, Has Died
February 1, 2021She worked for two and a half decades at the Dutch museum. Continue reading