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This piece is called the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. It was a painting that shattered convention and rewrote the rules of art. A provocative private commission that was never suppose to see the light of day. A painting that its own artist might later have happily tossed into a bonfire if he had his way. And for nearly 300 years after Botticelli’s death, nobody really cared about it at all.
Have you ever thought about how weird it is? Why is she riding a scallop shell? Why did Botticelli paint the same woman so many times? AND WHERE IS THE PEARL???
After 16 years at top art schools and 28 years reviewing student portfolios, I know exactly what admissions teams are looking for in a winning BFA portfolio.
Born and raised in Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil, Sonia Gomes’s artistic practice carries the region’s colors, textures, and experiences into objects that resist easy categorization. ‘There’s no way to separate what we’ve lived – at least not in my work – from what I do,’ she says. Filmed in her studio, the Brazilian artist reflects on a career that began intuitively, with the simple act of taking apart her own clothes. Her work insists on gesture, care, and transformation. ‘Whether it’s craft or not, this is what I know how to do,’ she says. ‘And it’s what I’ll keep doing.’
Peter Fischli (born 1952, Zurich) is a Swiss artist known for his long‑standing collaboration with David Weiss (1946–2012). Together, Fischli & Weiss produced some of the late 20th century’s most influential works, including The Way Things Go (1987), the Equilibres series, and the Polyurethane Objects. Their practice spans film, sculpture, photography and installation, often examining everyday materials with humor and philosophical depth. Fischli has exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale, MoMA, Tate Modern and the Walker Art Center, and is regarded as one of the most significant European artists of his generation.
A quiet protest through allegorical art. English painter Evelyn De Morgan refused to follow standard rules.
Boycotting the Royal Academy and signing the 1889 Declaration in Favour of Women’s Suffrage, she foregrounded the female form while channeling her pacifist views on war through vivid, symbolic metaphors.
Candido Portinari (1903–1962) frequently drew inspiration from his early life in Brodowski, rural Brazil. Alongside his monumental works addressing social justice, he documented traditional childhood pastimes, depicting local games, kites, and open landscapes.
Ahead of her solo exhibition “Seeing in Blue” at Pace in New York, Torkwase Dyson opens a window onto the process of creating her new body of paintings in her Beacon, New York, studio. Beginning on the floor with atmospheric washes of color, she then moves toward detailed geometric constructions. At the heart of these paintings—which are inspired by Dyson's expeditions and sensory experiences as a deep-sea diver—is what the artist calls the “boundless state change of water." “Working with water as a material means that I’m working between physics and memory,” she says, “allowing it both to take its course errantly and then following its system.”
For this very special project, I need your help! I asked for you folks to send me your paintings that were hot messes, dumpster fires, goners, and you didn't disappoint. So, now I need your help in choosing which piece I'll conserve for the client for free!
Go ahead and watch the video and then head to the comments where I've pinned three, one for each painting and "like" the project you want to see me conserve in a future video this fall and the comment with the most "likes" will end up on the table!
Is she smiling? Uncover the optical illusions and surprising science behind the Mona Lisa.
Why does the Mona Lisa's smile seem to vanish? Discover how Leonardo da Vinci mastered the science of human perception to create his greatest illusion.
“I don’t try to have any mystery about what these things are on purpose, but … sometimes it’s cool to be murky because, you know, you only have five seconds with every viewer for a painting. You want to make the most out of your first date.” —Nate Lowman
Nate Lowman: Hanging Out, the artist's new solo exhibition at David Zwirner, debuts a body of shaped canvases that take the form of keys. Hung serially, the keys enact their own logic of reproducibility, each one a variation of a template, like keys themselves. This capacity for endless reproduction gives the key a particular resonance within Lowman’s practice, which has long engaged with the appropriation and recirculation of found imagery.
Do Ho Suh is constantly redefining what 'home' means.
His floating fabric recreations of places he's lived across the globe are now on view at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, through February 9.
Mildred Howard’s public art transforms everyday spaces into places of memory, connection, and reflection. In this video, explore several of Howard’s powerful public artworks throughout the Bay Area and discover how she uses art to uncover histories, honor community, and connect personal stories to a larger sense of place.
”We live in this world of objects that we have created ourselves.” For artist Nina Beier, the endless number of objects surrounding us is anything but neutral. They carry histories, desires, contradictions, and traces of the society that created them.
New York-based artist Louis Fratino depicts intimate personal experiences and domestic affairs in his works, frequently centering contemporary queer life and the male body.
Born in 1904, Lee started his career mastering classical calligraphy and bamboo painting. Over a six-decade career, his commitment to creation remained constant—viewing almost any material as a canvas, from traditional Hanji paper and fabric to newspaper, ceramic, wood, and stone.
Jamini Roy wanted to make art available to everyone. By leaving behind academic styles and embracing local Indian traditions, he built a legacy that earned him status as a National Treasure
Oakland Museum of California’s YouTube channel connects the world to California artists through thought-provoking content that celebrates diverse voices. From artist interviews, studio visits, to the behind the scenes, discover the historical and contemporary art that reflect a more equitable world through the works and words of artists.
OMCA is a a museum, garden, and gathering place in the heart of Oakland with a mission to connect communities through California art, history, and natural sciences.
This powerful video explores the work of Betty Muffler, an Indigenous Australian artist and healer, whose art vividly depicts her ancestral land. Her paintings, while beautiful, carry the heavy weight of the impact of nuclear testing displacing her from South Australia.
There are few artists who capture the public's imagination quite like Gertrude Abercrombie. With a complex and seemingly ambiguous lexicon she crafted comprehensive worlds and inner spaces and explored not only herself but questioned the viewer as well. Slightly askew, a bit strange but thoroughly engaging, her work has seen a resurgence in recent years with traveling retrospectives, newspaper articles and of course sensational auction records.
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