Boise Arts And History Grants

This portrait of some of the Wharton family children by Joan Carlile represents the work of one of Britain’s earliest female professional portrait artists.  Courtesy of Dreweatts Joan Carlile’s name is often referenced with some variation of “first”—she is generally called one of the first British professional female portraitists, one […]

[ad_1] Do you really think your good enough to be an artist? Is your art good enough? How does it compare to other artists? Are your themes relevant? Are you you technically superior? Where do you fit in the current art movements?  Are you evolving? Are you being sought after? Can […]

[ad_1] Elvis Presley in Florida – Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The California Reparations Task Force has issued its first interim report, a nearly 600-page document that spends a full chapter focusing on the longstanding inequities surrounding the history of arts and entertainment in the United States. “Throughout American history, […]

[ad_1] Nathaniel Chastain, the former head of product at NFT sales platform OpenSea, has been charged by the FBI with wire fraud and money laundering, his arrest the first in history to involve NFTs in relation to insider trading, itself long the purview of Wall Street white-collar crooks. “NFTs might […]

[ad_1] Some buildings have many lives. Take, for example, the Center for African American History, Art and Culture here in Aiken. What began as a freedmen’s school in the late-nineteenth century eventually became, in turn, a movie theater, a Roman Catholic parish, a Salvation Army store, a gas station and, […]

Yves Klein’s Anthropometrie de l’epoque bleue, (ANT 124) Courtesy of Christie’s Text size Yves Klein’s Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124), 1960, will be sold at auction for the first time at a Christie’s London evening sale in late June with an estimate in the region of £24 million (US$30.2 […]

[ad_1] I’m not going to lie – I thought paint pouring was a doddle! How hard can it be to mix some acrylic paint in a cup and then pour it out onto a canvas? Well, I stand corrected! In this post I will share with you the numerous mistakes […]

The Carabinieri Police Cultural Heritage Protection Unit returned the painting to the government in a May 19 ceremony.   Photo by Marco Bertorello /AFP via Getty Images In Titian’s 1512 painting Gentiluomo con berretto nero (Portrait of a Man with a Beret), a red-bearded man with a hat stares knowingly […]

[ad_1] The Contemporary British Portrait Painters collective is presenting a major new exhibition of work this summer from 11th-18th June at The Department Store in Brixton, London. Founded in 2018, the collective includes some of the most recognisable and cutting-edge names in contemporary portraiture and offers a platform for the […]

[ad_1] Five years ago, dance instructor Hana Liu could tell two of her youngest students weren’t satisfied with their abilities. At about 6 years old, the two had just started dance classes at Yin He Dance, a Chinese dance company in Chicago. They weren’t very flexible yet — but a […]