Born on New Year’s Eve in 1869, Henri Matisse became one of the most influential French painters of the 20th century. Here are 10 surprising facts about the life of Henri Matisse.
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Darkrooms are instrumental in movie plots: tiny rooms, red lights, and photographs hanging from a piece of string. But developing a photograph is not as easy as it looks in the movies.
Though the 2026 Venice Biennale is still over a year away, the national pavilions have not only been announced, but they have also already sparked controversy over recent changes made by Australia.
Björk’s critically acclaimed world tour commissioned by The Shed in 2019 is now a book and a concert film on Apple. Cornucopia was filmed in Lisbon and features media artist Tobias Gremmler’s ethereal digital designs— alien aqua-flora imagery projections.
Alexis Rockman is having a busy year. The multidisciplinary painter's work is currently on display in simultaneous shows across America. At the New York-based gallery Magenta Plains, his show Naples: Course of Empire is on view until March 1st. For that show, Rockman produced large-scale oil paintings that recall 18th-century history paintings.
Mexico City is undoubtedly one of today’s most dynamic art and design centers. A cultural capital where the cost of living is affordable and artisans are readily available to assist with all kinds of production, CDMX—as it’s locally known—attracts more international creative talents daily.
Just last week, Christie’s announced “Augmented Intelligence,” an auction dedicated to the sale of art created with artificial intelligence. While this is not the first time Christie’s has sold AI-generated art, it is the first to solely highlight augmented works.
In the 1940s, Disney famously released a series of movies that were either shorter features or a collection of separate segments with or without a vaguely-defined overarching theme, known as “package films.” While they never received the commercial success of the 1950 golden age or the 1990 Renaissance-era releases, Disney’s movies from the 1940s are notable for the degree of experimentation in art styles, themes, and soundtracks, with great efforts of combining live-action and an
The life of Frida Kahlo has been researched and revealed in numerous tellings and formats, including dozens of books, an Oscar-winning Hollywood film starring Salma Hayek, and over a dozen documentaries, leaving the most impassioned Frida-maniac wondering what might Carla Gutierrez’s new film, Frida, possibly have to add.
Presenting at the San Francisco-based gallery, Jessica Silverman, Ponca artist Julie Buffalohead presents her second solo show with the West Coast collective entitled "The Wisdom of Wild Things.”
