A team of scientists recently used astronomy to date Vincent van Gogh’s painting Lane of Poplars at Sunset. The painting depicts a street named Weverstraat, which ran through the center of the town of ...
Gauguin returned from the hotel the next morning, finding Van Gogh lying severely wounded on his bed. Vincent was then taken ... Paul Gauguin’s The Black Woman (La Femme Noire) (Summer 1889 ...
A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.
“I read somewhere, that if you were going to describe his style through references that are in the cultural vernacular, it ...
Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer Afsheen Beig creates intricate and vibrant paintings, with a special focus on mandalas. Based ...
Namedropping is ostensibly about status; a wall label informs us, in inimitable MONA-style, that “The bloke who owns Mona (let’s just call him David Walsh, because that’s his name) says what he wants ...
The undead monsters we know from movies and TV are distortions of a figure with roots in the religious practices of Haiti.
The New York Tattoo Convention, held during three days in October, just gives you candy. Beer and coffee sold at the front, ...
Schnabels attempt to characterize Basquiats life as a tragedy in his film, Basquiat, speaks to the issues of whitewashing.
While Georges Seurat meticulously arranged the paints on his palette in prismatic order, a pointillist technique reflected on his canvases, Kerry James Marshall uses blots of zinc white and smears ...