Near the southernmost tip of South America, people may have started cave painting nearly 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously suggested by ancient rock art in that area.
Dating of comblike depictions in a cave in Argentina indicates that these designs belonged to a rock art tradition that lasted more than 3,000 years, ending around 5,100 years ago, researchers report February 14 in Science Advances. Ancient South Americans painted a variety of designs on the cave’s internal
“Miami,” in the art world, is short for Miami Art Week, which is short for a week-long bacchanal of eye candy, nose candy, parties, and pills held in the name of shopping for art. The first week of December marks the kickoff to Miami, which features two or maybe three dozen different art fairs, the most prestigious of them being Art Basel Miami Beach, an import from Switzerland that, if you’re in the know, is simply called “the main
Adorable childhood drawings of ‘Mummy’ and ‘Papa’ sketched by a young King Charles III sold for £57,000 today.
The drawings, which were listed by Hansons Auctioneers for £30,000, were sold as part of a collection that includes rarely seen snaps of a young King Charles with his sister Princess Anne on a swing, as well as fishing at Balmoral and driving in a palace grounds.
One photo shows Charles as a young boy picking up a fish during a trip,
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ifteen years ago, a distinguished academic publisher brought out a densely argued, lavishly illustrated, wildly erudite monograph that seemed to completely reconceive the study of Johannes Vermeer. The author, an art historian named Benjamin Binstock, said that he had discerned the existence of an entirely new artist—Vermeer’s daughter Maria, the young woman Binstock had also identified as the likely model for Girl With a Pearl Earring—to whom he attributed seven of the 35 or so paintings then
Sam Gilliam, ein bahnbrechender abstrakter Maler, der vor allem für seine üppig gefärbten Drape-Gemälde bekannt ist, die sein Medium vollständiger in die Dreidimensionalität brachten als jeder andere Künstler seiner Generation, starb am Samstag in seinem Haus in Washington. Er war 88.
Sein Tod wurde von der David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles und der Pace Gallery in New York bekannt gegeben. Ursache war Nierenversagen.
Mr. Gilliam war zweimal eine Anomalie. Als schwarzer Künstler wurde er von den oberen Ebenen der
Sam Gilliam, ein bahnbrechender abstrakter Maler, der vor allem für seine üppig gefärbten Drape-Gemälde bekannt ist, die sein Medium vollständiger in die Dreidimensionalität brachten als jeder andere Künstler seiner Generation, starb am Samstag in seinem Haus in Washington. Er war 88.
Sein Tod wurde von der David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles und der Pace Gallery in New York bekannt gegeben. Ursache war Nierenversagen.
Mr. Gilliam war zweimal eine Anomalie. Als schwarzer Künstler wurde er von den oberen Ebenen der
In our mezzanine conversation, Marshall told me that the “Rythm Mastr” story line has become increasingly complex. There are now two different groups of people trying to stop the gang violence—Farell and his crew of Afrocentric drummers, and a posse of wheelchair-bound tech wizards, victims of drive-by shootings, who use weaponized robots against gangs. He also said that Chicago is no longer where it happens. “I’ve substituted a city and a world that I created myself,” he said. “It’s invention
“Madonna della Vittoria,” by the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, must have looked imposing when it was first installed as an altarpiece in Santa Maria della Vittoria, a small chapel in the northern-Italian city of Mantua. The painting, which was commissioned by the city’s ruler, Francesco II Gonzaga, was completed in 1496, and measures more than nine feet in height. A worshipper’s eye likely lingered on its lower half—where the Virgin, seated on a marble pedestal, bestows a blessing on the
