"This first pleasant experience with a modern painting started me on a road of adventure that has been both exhilarating and satisfying," Pearlman once said of another painting by Soutine, called Village Square. "I haven't spent a boring evening since that first purchase."
While being treated for a serious mental breakdown in 1940, Carrington passed her days by filling sketchbooks with art that reimagined the hospital as an 'underworld' inhabited by strange, hybrid beasts.
Robert Therrien's 'Under the Table' is a 10-foot-tall sculpture that captivates visitors, inviting them to experience its scale and intricacies from below. The piece exemplifies Therrien's ability to transform everyday objects into monumental art.
Good Energy features 21 limited-edition silk screen prints that capture the feeling of live performance and the connection between artist and fan. The prints have been chosen by artists including The 1975, Geese, Fontaines DC, Wolf Alice, Yungblud, Nick Cave, Nia Archives, Keane, Sex Pistols feat Frank Carter, The Big Moon, The Snuts, Courteeners, Bring Me The Horizon, Enter Shikari, Elbow and more.
The exhibit reflects the energy and evolution of the city's artistic scene across generations. Art is central to the experience of cultural immersion we offer at The Peninsula, and this exhibition invites guests and local residents to alike to participate in this distinctive aspect of our city's character.
Following its acclaimed world premiere, 'Spectacular: The Art of Jonathan Yeo in Augmented Reality' makes its U.S. debut at SXSW from March 15th-17th, 2026. By blending Yeo's distinctive portraiture style with Snap's cutting-edge technology, the exhibit transforms a selection of his royal, celebrity, and self-portraits into living, responsive installations that invite guests to see beyond the frame.
Artist Ayelet Gal-On does not just paint; she builds, layering oil, acrylic and plaster on canvas. Gal-On's signature subjects for "Taken by the Wind, Swept by the Light," her upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery 9 in Los Altos, are white dresses that appear to hang on a line, defying the stillness of the canvas. "I love the process of playing with color," says the artist.
If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At least that's how it felt to me, puttering along on the 27 to Paddington that is the National Portrait Gallery's trawl through Lucian Freud's sketches, engravings and even childhood crayonings, daydreaming until my stop, with the occasional flash of colour and flare when one of the exhibition's carefully selected group of important paintings rolled past.
The three met in Roumagoux's Thursday morning Open Studio class at Oregon Coast Community College, two hours when a dozen students paint and Roumagoux roams the room sharing the wisdom honed over her decades as both an artist and teacher. "As people started loosening up and telling their life stories, as happens in a good studio class, lo and behold, we told what ages we are," Roumagoux recalled.
Sutcliffe, who was born in Edinburgh but grew up in Liverpool, met John Lennon while they were both studying at the Liverpool College of Art. By early 1960, the pair were living together and Sutcliffe joined Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison 's band in May. Sutcliffe played acoustic guitar and took on the responsibility of booking gigs, but various accounts suggest he was no more than a competent musician. Sutcliffe's real talents lay in his "marvelous art portfolio," according to Lennon's description.
A fire early Tuesday morning destroyed one of the buildings at the vacant former Pacific Steel Casting complex in West Berkeley. No one was injured, but dramatic video from the scene showed flames shooting out of the large warehouse next to Interstate 80. (KTVU, Berkeley Scanner, Instagram) Hundreds of students and others protested against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at UC Berkeley on Wednesday. (The Daily Californian)