Share: We are pleased to have below the winners for the 39th Annual Art Competition in the Landscape/Interior Category. For the full list of winners overall and in all other categories, please see the links at the end of the post. First Place: Jacqueline Buck Donadeo Spring Snow by Jacqueline […]
How to Create Prints of Your Artwork
As a painter, sometimes the market for your work can be limited. That’s particularly true if you work on a large scale or attach a high price to your art. One way to expand your market is to create prints of your artwork. In fact, art reproductions are the fastest-growing […]
Daily Campello Art News: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Studio Gallery and the Stimson Center currently and through March 3, 2023 have a new collaborative exhibition by Suzanne Yurdin on display. This show is available for viewing at the Stimson Center in Dupont Circle by appointment only. The work was curated by J.S. Herbert and Halley Stubis. Suzanne Yurdin’s […]
How Sustainable Art Can Make a Difference in Your Life
I didn’t realize that denim jeans were so damaging to the environment until I saw Libby Newell’s sustainable art on the walls of a gallery. The cotton plant consumes a lot of water, and then the process of dying the jeans — including any specialty washes— is reliant on […]
Bartek Swiatecki / Pener: Selected Works 15-21
A new book here features six years of selected works from a Polish graffiti writer, muralist, and professor of art and painting at a secondary school in his hometown of Olsztyn, Poland. He reckons that his life is one of ‘Planned Freestyle,’ meaning that having structure imposed upon him is […]
A Fresh Look at Flowers in Photography
Miriam Tölke, “Flower of Yesterday” (2019) (all images courtesy Thames & Hudson) In the late 1830s, the Welsh botanist John Dillwyn Llewelyn began making photographs of orchids he’d grown at his home near Swansea. Llewelyn’s pictures are thought to be among the first to use the photographic process to identify […]
Recovering | Lee Wolfe | Episode 884
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Lee Wolfe | Episode 884 Lee Wolfe has been a studio potter for 40 years. Lee’s ceramic work emerges from the organic beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains where she lives in Asheville, North Carolina. The voluptuous forms and the woodland creatures in […]
Holger Drachmann – my daily art display
The Artist, the Poet, the Lover of Women. Holger Drachmann The subject of this week’s blog is the nineteenth century Danish poet, dramatist and painter Holger Drachmann. Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann was born on October 9th, 1846 in Copenhagen. He was the son of Andreas Drachmann and his wife Vilhelmine. […]
Torkwase Dyson Seeks Black Liberation Through Geometry
Torkwase Dyson is part of a growing number of contemporary artists to imbue geometric abstraction with a sociopolitical dimension. Geometry is never neutral; the formal geometry in a painting reflects how the artist conceives of space, order, and positionality. Even when divorced from explicit politics, these issues map on to […]
The Restoration of the High Altar of Kisszeben
After many decades of restoration, the High Altar of Kisszeben (Sabinov, Slovakia) has been assembled in the Hungarian National Gallery. The restoration of one of the largest and most ornate winged altars from the medieval period of the Kingdom of Hungary began in 1954 and was completed in the summer […]