The story of how one of the UK’s great abstract painters was inspired by ordinariness – and the extraordinary meeting he had with an American artistic giant – is being told in a new exhibition in the ...
11.02.2025 Theguardian.com and 1 sites
Following the death of his mother, the artist Mark Rothko set off on a five-month trip across Europe in 1950, visiting the continent’s great museums. It wasn’t until he visited a former Dominican conv...
11.02.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Fellow recipient of the prestigious 'Genius Grant', Chris Thile is a multifaceted musical talent, and then some....
10.29.2025 Rte.ie
Barnett Newman (1905–1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left...
11.01.2025 Arabnews.pk and 1 sites
Baz Luhrmann ’s 2001 film Moulin Rouge can be read as the Australian auteur’s artistic manifesto. Although it was his third feature film, it tapped into the form and energy of his original creative inspiration: the classic movie musical. Growing up in a small town north of Sydney, late-night screenings from the Golden Age of film musicals encouraged Luhrmann to dream big. The TV in his modest home may have been black and white, but the heightened emotion wrought by the combination of staged spec...
10.29.2025 Irishtimes.com
When Grandjoy Agdigos was fourteen, a night of violence changed her life. A burglar broke into their home and attacked her. Wounded and afraid, she turned to the Santo Nino on the family altar, the sa...
11.02.2025 Malaya.com.ph
The ongoing federal government shutdown has hit many groups hard, including visitors to Washington, D. C. Government buildings such as the U. S. Capitol Visitor Center, the Library of Congress, and th...
10.31.2025 Thefederalist.com
Photography has always been a playground for abstraction and experimentation. In the 20th century, pioneers like Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy challenged conventional image-making with photograms, tr...
11.02.2025 Aestheticamagazine.comWe inhabit an age of ceaseless declarations, statements and visual noise, yet the most transformative artistic gestures often arrive without a single word. Silence, when aestheticized, carries a moral...
10.28.2025 Dailysabah.com