Tag: Painting
It’s always been hard to make it as an artist in...
Joanna Woronkowicz, Indiana University
“Being an artist is not viewed as a real job.”
It’s a...
How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism
Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University
When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival...
The Search for Adney Alden, “The Most Hidden and Exclusive Artist...
The Search for Adney Alden,"The Most Hidden and Exclusive Artist in the World"
Whether in war-torn Ukraine, Laos or Spain, kids have felt compelled...
Paul Morrow, University of Dayton
“They still draw pictures!”
So wrote the editors of an influential...
How AI is hijacking art history
Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret.
Or, at the very least, media outlets have come...
A new platform lets you buy shares of blue-chip paintings –...
Kathryn Graddy, Brandeis University
In the fall of 2018, a Banksy work, “Love is in the Bin,” sold for...
Why it’s important to see women as capable … of terrible...
Jessica Trisko Darden, American University School of International Service and Izabela Steflja, Tulane University
Born in 1593, Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman...
One 19th-century artist’s effort to grapple with tuberculosis resonates during COVID-19
Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College
Like everyone else, artists have been challenged by new conditions and routines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have...
EXPLORING NATURE
Coal plants emitted more pollution during the last government shutdown, while...
Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Huan Li, North Carolina A&T State University, and Neha Khanna, Binghamton University, State University of New York
