#mischief-makers-paintings

[ follow ]
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
7 hours ago

This Artist Creates Dark Wood-Burned Illustrations Exploring Identity And The Human Psyche

Robb is an Italian artist known for his intricate pyrography, creating dark, psychological imagery that explores themes of identity and isolation.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
13 hours ago

Mexican art world protests over plan to send Frida Kahlo masterpieces to Spain

The export of a significant Mexican art collection to Spain has caused outrage among cultural professionals in Mexico.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer

Rauschenberg valued stillness as a form of energy, finding inspiration in Newhall's photographs despite their contrasting kinetic nature.
Podcast
fromArtforum
1 day ago

Schlock Jock: Joshua Citarella at the Whitney Biennial

Doomscroll podcast's live tapings at the Whitney reflect changing museum priorities and the evolving relationship between art and digital discourse.
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 days ago

OUTSIDERS Investigates the Space Between Society and Solitude

Modern design challenges conventional public seating to enhance social interaction and presence in urban spaces.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
3 days ago

Kyle Cobban Draws From The Unknown - Hi-Fructose Magazine

"It's an amalgamation of the Chicago neighborhood aesthetic with a Bulls fan, quite literally. It's kind of on the nose, but that's how I juxtapose the elements of my work, with the structure of a home and then a figure who is around or in the home."
Chicago Bulls
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

FilmWatch Weekly: Camus' 'The Stranger' on screen, Christian Petzold's 'Miroirs No. 3,' and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

François Ozon's adaptation of The Stranger, while visually stunning, reveals the limitations of cinema in depicting the complex inner states of consciousness that Camus masterfully crafted in his text.
Writing
Media industry
fromArtforum
4 days ago

Dialogues and Dreams

Artforum evolved to foster international dialogue and promote substantive commentary in response to contemporary challenges in the arts ecosystem.
#art
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator, a painting by Hermione von Preuschen, symbolizes the transience of power and fame, returning to Berlin after over a century of controversy.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 days ago

encyclopedias are lying to you and weronika gesicka proves it with hundreds of fake entries

Weronika Gęsicka's project transforms fictitious 'trap entries' from encyclopedias into a credible photographic book, questioning the nature of knowledge today.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

In praise of upheaval: Women, art, and the refusal of stillness | amNewYork

Art emerges from upheaval, reflecting change as an inherent female quality and rejecting imposed stillness.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

how lachlan turczan reshapes matter by bending light and water in atmospheric installations

Lachlan Turczan's practice sits in the space between physics, optics, and environmental art, as he works with lasers, water, mist, and custom-built lenses to produce sculptures made entirely from light.
Berlin music
Berlin
fromArtforum
4 days ago

Bettina's Obsessive Geometries: The Search for a Fourth Dimension

Bettina's artistic journey includes innovative photography and sculptures, showcasing organic forms and a retreat from public life as her productivity increased.
#art-exhibition
fromJuxtapoz
7 months ago
NYC music

Juxtapoz Magazine - Chris "Daze" Ellis "Orchid Rain on the Underground" @ PPOW Gallery, NYC

Chris 'Daze' Ellis's exhibition showcases the legacy of 1970s and 80s graffiti art through new paintings and installations.
fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago
Arts

The New Museum Returns, but Humans Are Left Behind

The exhibition explores humanity's struggle against technology through diverse multimedia installations and thought-provoking artworks.
NYC music
fromJuxtapoz
7 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Chris "Daze" Ellis "Orchid Rain on the Underground" @ PPOW Gallery, NYC

Chris 'Daze' Ellis's exhibition showcases the legacy of 1970s and 80s graffiti art through new paintings and installations.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago

The New Museum Returns, but Humans Are Left Behind

The exhibition explores humanity's struggle against technology through diverse multimedia installations and thought-provoking artworks.
Music production
fromLos Angeles Times
5 days ago

Irreversible Entanglements refuses to make 'safe' free jazz - and the genre is better for it

Camae Ayewa, known as Moor Mother, is a multifaceted artist blending genres and activism in her music and creative endeavors.
France news
fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

Thieves steal paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse from a private museum in Italy

Thieves stole three valuable paintings from a museum near Parma, Italy, in a swift heist lasting less than three minutes.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
5 days ago

Dali's largest work acquired by Dali Museum in Florida

A unique assemblage of Salvador Dali's theatrical set for a 1939 ballet has been acquired by the Dali Museum, including the largest work by the artist.
NYC LGBT
fromArtforum
6 days ago

Agosto Machado, Whose Shrines Immortalized a Lost NYC Underground, Is Dead

Agosto Machado, a performance artist and activist, died on March 21, known for his shrines honoring those lost to the AIDS crisis.
Arts
fromMission Local
1 day ago

Blood, mud and a cobweb create ache of heartbreak at Asian Art Museum

Chiharu Shiota's exhibition explores themes of personal loss and connection through intricate art pieces made from blood, mud, and yarn.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
1 day ago

Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

Labeling human-made content is essential as AI-generated works proliferate, creating confusion and skepticism among audiences.
fromItsnicethat
3 days ago

Bravas Graphix are the rave connoisseurs behind some of Brussels' most explosive posters

"We're constantly striving to strike a balance between work that respects academic rules of composition, established visual codes and good readability, with something more spontaneous, adventurous, playful, even naive."
Typography
#photography
fromAnOther
3 days ago
Photography

The Corporeal, Bizarre Photography of Torbjrn Rdland

Torbjørn Rødland's new exhibition features a shift towards simpler photographic styles, emphasizing suggested features and everyday observations.
fromItsnicethat
6 days ago
Photography

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Gideon captures the essence of time and change in photography, focusing on the ephemeral rather than traditional beauty or detail.
Photography
fromAnOther
3 days ago

The Corporeal, Bizarre Photography of Torbjrn Rdland

Torbjørn Rødland's new exhibition features a shift towards simpler photographic styles, emphasizing suggested features and everyday observations.
Photography
fromItsnicethat
6 days ago

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Gideon captures the essence of time and change in photography, focusing on the ephemeral rather than traditional beauty or detail.
#art-exhibitions
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild the week in art

Estonia's modernist painter Konrad Magi is featured in an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from March to July.
Music production
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

Nobody's Chosen: An Interview With Sideshow

Sideshow's album TIGRAY FUNK addresses societal issues through personal experiences and a unique musical fusion of G-funk and Ethiopian influences.
#salvador-daliacute
Photography
fromColossal
4 days ago

Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos

Joseph Ford's Impossible Street Art series combines photography and street art to engage with monumental infrastructure and energy production sites.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
5 days ago

Humans only! This website invites artists to animate anti-AI disclaimers for everyone to use

Artists created disclaimers against AI-generated content, showcasing diverse styles and emphasizing the human journey in art creation.
Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 weeks ago

Imperfecta and Daria Loi's many reinventions * Oregon ArtsWatch

Imperfecta, a multifunctional space in Portland, blends gallery, community center, and installation venue, reflecting owner Daria Loi's philosophy of participatory design and interactive exploration.
Arts
fromColossal
2 days ago

Brushstrokes Transform into Beaded Topographies in Liza Lou's Mixed-Media Paintings

Mid-20th-century artists innovated with loose brushstrokes, while Liza Lou uses beads to explore gesture and intention in her work.
fromArtnet News
2 days ago

The Printmaker Who Became a Hero of Mexican Cultural Identity

Frida Kahlo, during her 1933 trip to New York, created a colorful haven in her hotel room by covering the walls with prints by José Guadalupe Posada, which depicted sensational news and political imagery.
Arts
Arts
fromColossal
2 days ago

Explore Art UK's Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals

Art UK archives over 21,000 public artworks, including street art and murals, to preserve ephemeral experiences and document local history.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Required Reading

Calida Rawles' art explores the duality of water as both healing and destructive within the Black diaspora's history.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

An Artist Embraces the Metaphorical Cracks of Matzah

Emily Drew Miller's art reflects the disconnection felt among Jewish people through her matzah-inspired prints.
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
2 days ago

Review of Group Show Anahita Sadighi Gallery | Berlin Art Link

The exhibition 'Let Us Believe in the Dawn of Spring' celebrates renewal through diverse artistic expressions coinciding with the Persian New Year.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Culture of care: surreal celebrations of Iranian tenderness in pictures

Sheida Soleimani's work reframes caring for bodies as a political act in her exhibition, Forest of Stars.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
3 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - William N. Copley "X-Rated (1972-1974)" @ Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

William N. Copley's exhibition 'X-Rated' features paintings and works on paper exploring erotic imagery and Surrealist principles.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

The Best April Fools' Jokes in the Art World This Year

April Fools' Day inspires creative and humorous pranks across arts and humanities, showcasing institutions' ability to engage in lighthearted satire.
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

The Art World Is a Joke

Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D'Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else entirely - something gestural, exuberant, riotous, and incomparably his own.
Arts
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
3 days ago

Grimanesa Amoros and the architecture of illumination

Light is a powerful force in art, transcending culture and language, and is essential to understanding perception and truth.
fromHypebeast
3 days ago

Keith Haring's Rare Art Cars to Land in NYC's West Village

Opening April 10, Keith Haring: On the Street marks the first time his painted 1963 Buick Special and 1983 Range Rover will be shown together in Manhattan.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
5 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC

"These works are an exploration of the human body's elasticity and capacity to metamorphose. Informed by my own experience of pregnancy and the birth of my first child last year, these paintings are a meditation on physiological transformation and the body's underlying animalistic and mammalian nature."
Arts
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
Arts
fromArtnet News
3 days ago

Cecily Brown Turns Pastoral Visions Into Painterly Chaos in Her London Museum Debut

Cecily Brown's museum debut in London features new works that reinterpret her early memories of England through children's book illustration styles.
fromColossal
3 days ago

Symbiotic Communion Flourishes in Laura Berger's Expansive Paintings

Laura Berger continues her explorations of communion in a suite of staggering paintings that place her signature minimal figures in intimate fellowship with one another and the earth.
Arts
Arts
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
3 days ago

Perceptrum and the Emergence of Augmented Painting: When the Canvas Begins to Listen - KALTBLUT Magazine

Perceptrum redefines painting by allowing touch, creating a sensory dialogue that transforms the relationship between observer and artwork.
Arts
fromGothamist
5 days ago

A one-man psychedelic art empire thrives in Brooklyn

Alex Aliume's Brooklyn studio attracts thousands of visitors with his unique glow-in-the-dark art and immersive experiences.
#maurizio-cattelan
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Calling all sinners: for his latest work, artist Maurizio Cattelan wants people to confess

Maurizio Cattelan invites global callers to confess sins via a hotline, culminating in a livestreamed event where he offers symbolic absolution.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Calling all sinners: for his latest work, artist Maurizio Cattelan wants people to confess

Maurizio Cattelan invites global callers to confess sins via a hotline, culminating in a livestreamed event where he offers symbolic absolution.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Grid

Kamrooz Aram's art challenges the binary of Western modernism and non-Western decoration by loosening the grid's constraints.
fromBOOOOOOOM!
4 days ago

"Idling" by Artist Greta Kresse

"These paintings merge the landscape and the intimacy of windows through the framing of the car, bridging the two realms I've typically explored separately. The car becomes a meditation on transition, on existing simultaneously here and elsewhere."
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Remembering Glen Baxter, Pat Steir, Melvin Edwards

This week honors an absurdist cartoonist, a feminist artist, and a sculptor addressing violence in the US.
fromArtnet News
4 days ago

At Art Basel Hong Kong, Wet Paint Hits Galleries, Malls, a Semi-Secret Space, and More | Artnet News

Hong Kong's particular and seductive Metabolist city planning is an ode to consumption as a great totalizer of culture, and to contemporary art as merely a niche commodity form among many others.
Arts
Arts
fromArtnet News
4 days ago

Rare Rauschenberg Experimental Dance Revived at Brooklyn Roller Rink

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is reviving Robert Rauschenberg's 1963 dance 'Pelican' for the first time in 60 years at a Brooklyn event.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

5 Art Job Openings That Are Definitely Not Exploitative

Qualifications for art-related positions often include unconventional traits and low compensation.
Arts
fromArtforum
4 days ago

How Vision Becomes Ideology: On Wadysaw Strzeminski's Theory of Seeing

Władysław Strzemiński's 'Teoria widzenia' examines the interplay of vision, art, and socio-political conditions from prehistory to modernity.
fromColossal
5 days ago

Anoushka Mirchandani Conjures Ancient Mythological Nature Spirits in Vibrant Oil Paintings

These water-women are beings of transformation, embodying sensuality, cosmic energy, and the transmission of matrilineal knowledge.
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Frida, Diego, and Raphael

The largest-ever Raphael exhibition in the U.S. opened at The Met, showcasing 170 works over eight years.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
6 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Nat Meade's "Franklin" @ HESSE FLATOW, NYC

Nat Meade's exhibition 'Franklin' explores life's struggles and triumphs through figurative works reflecting personal experiences and themes of vulnerability and renewal.
fromArtnet News
6 days ago

Rare Leonora Carrington Sketches of Her Inner Turmoil Resurface in London Show

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.
Arts
Arts
fromArtnet News
6 days ago

A Radical Post-Impressionist Movement Returns to Paris

The Nabis group revolutionized art in the late 19th century, establishing a foundation for 20th-century Modern art through abstraction and symbolism.
Arts
fromColossal
6 days ago

Semiprecious Stones Coat Kathleen Ryan's Oversized Sculptures of Rotting Food

Mold inspires Kathleen Ryan's sculptures, using materials to reflect decay and hidden beauty in oversized food representations.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

A View From the Easel

Creating molds from high-heeled shoes in a shared workspace enhances precision and organization in the artistic process.
Arts
fromColossal
1 week ago

Ambiguity Reigns in Olaf Hajek's Mysterious Illustrations

Olaf Hajek's work emphasizes connections over differences, blending nature and culture to create dreamlike, ambiguous compositions.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Vignettes & Mutations: Eric White @ GRIMM Gallery, NYC

Eric White's exhibition 'Vignettes & Mutations' reinterprets past works, creating a refracted retrospective that connects earlier ideas with contemporary compositions.
Arts
fromTime Out New York
2 weeks ago

Theater review: Bughouse looks inside the world of outsider artist Henry Darger

Henry Darger's posthumously discovered artistic legacy reveals a reclusive menial worker's obsessive creative output combining disturbing imagery with apocalyptic kitsch aesthetics.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Embracing Friction in the Art World

On Franklin Street in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, one non-commercial gallery fosters 'a small, stubbornly human space for friction.' Friction—the ubiquitous buzzword that captures the simultaneous delight and discomfort of doing things the slow way—is at the heart of artists Pap Souleye Fall and Char Jeré's current show at Subtitled NYC. It also reflects the overall spirit of this little exhibition space and of a burgeoning movement to reject our culture of optimization in favor of a bumpier, more intimate, less alienating experience.
Arts
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Paints Smoky Lounges And Quiet Strangers, Letting Halffinished Details Turn Viewers Into Coauthors Of The Scene

A wide-ranging visual roundup showcases creative reinterpretations, vintage design, activist art, photography, illustration, and humorous cultural works spanning contemporary and historical styles.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Reshapes Walls And Spaces With Explosive Typographic Murals That Turn Buildings Into Giant, 3D Messages

Beautiful And Detailed Paintings In Resin By Feif Dong The Illustrator Has Created a Dreamy World that She Travels Through with Her Boyfriend Elspeth McLean Creates Beautiful Hand-Painted Stones This Artist Creates Beautifully Bizarre Backpacks That Look Like Octopus, Spiders, And Beetles Amazing Surreal And Tribal Backpacks By Konstantin Kofta Saddened By The Empty Streets Of Budapest During Lockdown, This Artist Filled The City With People From Classical Paintings UK Artist Unveils COVID-19 Glass Sculpture, One Million Times The Size Of The Virus
Arts
[ Load more ]