During Winter Olympics Vancouver Art Gallery boasts Leonardo da Vinci Drawings: The Mechanics of Man--on loan from HM The Queen for the first time echoing the athleticism of the games... more
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India Art Summit 3 opens in New Delhi January 2011, including an international speakers' form, and art fair for galleries with established and emerging artists in Asia, middle East, Europe and the Americas... more
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Is the "Art Market" undergoing fundamental restructuring? The Art Newspaper suggests that auctions might remain small, but perhaps there's hope for private sales. Check out the Index... more
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Western Front Society, with an international reputation as a centre for experimental art practice and performance, is "Learning From Vancouver." Fresh from New York, their Executive director Caitlin Jones talks about her learning experiences... more
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BERLIN: American artist Walton Ford studied John James Audubon's paintings, now will show his large-scale animal watercolour, Beastiarium, for the first time in Europe... more
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HOLT, NORFOLK, UK: Seven-year-old Kieron Williams' second painting exhibition sells out in 14 minutes! He already has 680 names on a list of people who want to buy his old-master-like artworks!... more
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"A-Maze-ing Laughter," an outdoor installation of delightful laughing giant bronze figures by China's Yue Minjung are part of the Vancouver Biennial 2009/11 sculpture festival. See them "in the round"... more
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“Sparse Coding Analysis” is a new, computerized mathematical approach to detect art forgeries. Researchers can cast artworks “in the mathematics of fractals” - patterns that repeat at ever-smaller scales. From the eggheads at Dartmouth College… more
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Bologna Art First 2010 curated by Julia Draganovic presents a series of "site specific" installations in unusual locations in the city's historical centre and its surroundings a week before Arte Fiera opens... more
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Acclaimed photographer Raghu Rai has recorded details of the changing face of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for over four decades, chased donkeys, and judged World Press Photo awards... more
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A new online source for artists' listings worldwide. The Arts Map allows users to search by location, medium, educational opportunities, type of organization, etc... more
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Here's a visual lesson in Embossing relief designs by hand in precious metals like silver and gold--as well as copper, brass, aluminum and steel in Iran... more
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A researcher in Palermo, Italy, has a new idea: that Leonardo's La Gioconda, or the Mona Lisa, owes her facial expression to her health conditions. Blame her cholesterol... more
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Are you fascinated by the gleam of sartorial metal worn by heroes of yesteryear? If so, then you'll want to read Jonathan Jones' critique on personal armour and its value to artistic painting... more
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I stumbled upon this strange little photo essay in an online magazine called “English Russia”. The essay is almost wordless - the photos speak volumes. This humble Russian is doing his own Sistine Chapel in Crimea… more
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The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the only museum dedicated to the exhibition of mid 20th-century European modern art in the southeast, opened to the public Saturday, January 2, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina.... more
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Does contemporary art engage science in an intelligent way? Jonathan Jones thinks we need artists who are scientists and scientists who think like artists. Take Leonardo da Vinci for instance... more
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Dublin, Ireland: Promoting visual arts for and by those with disabilities, "What Happens Next is a Secret!"--The Irish Museum of Modern Art features a special exhibition from their collection... more
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If Britain is the "world's leading art capital," with London this century's Paris or Manhattan--why are so many British artists leaving the Isle and choosing to live abroad? Let Jonathan Jones' tell you... more
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HAITI; Georges Nader, Sr. and his wife safe, but their collection of twelve thousand artworks--believed to be the world's largest repository of Haitian art--was lost in the January earthquake... more
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AUSTRALIA: Besides adopting edgy acronyms, Arts Festivals in Hobart, Tasmania develop new funding ideas with a former rock band bass player and a professional gambler... more
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This video shows the winner of Ukraine's Got Talent, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand
table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Mesmerizing to watch... more
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A Matteo Ricci woodblock on rice paper 1602 World Map of rare and epic proportion is on display at the Library of Congress, created by the Jesuit priest /cartographer for the Emperor of China... more
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The market for contemporary African art is heating up. The continent has been underrepresented in galleries and at auction, but it looks like collectors eager to try something new may be developing an appetite... more
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Pablo Picasso played a pioneering role in the development of cubism, surrealism and other important art movements. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is showing his inventiveness from 1905 to 1945... more
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Remember Polaroid films? Now that everything is digital, unique polaroid prints seem to only provide "instant nostalgia"--no longer a spontaneous painting or sculpture reference... more
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Fuller Craft Museum Presents the dazzling art quilts of Nancy Crow, considered the founder of the contemporary art quilting movement, have transformed a tradition-bound medium into one of bold improvisation, composition and technical innovation... more
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Working drawings and color studies provide a glimpse into abstract painter David Reed's process. They display experiments with color, and form. The working drawings provide a diary of each painting, recording struggles with the work... more
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2010 promises major exhibits worldwide: see guide for Sydney's Asia-Pacific Triennial; Houston's Photo-fest Biennial; Sydney's Biennale; Bucharest's Biennale; Carrara's International Sculpture Biennale; and Venice's Architecture Biennale!... more
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After farming in Cornwall for 25 years, the art of Terence Coventry's bronze and steel sculptures is magically captured in this video showing animals from pigs to dogs, and rooks taking flight in the field... more
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What’s cooking in Competitions, Shows and Galleries for 2010? Get off the couch and get to work! Here are a gazillion opportunities BUT start now. Pick one and go for it! (And bookmark this link…!) more
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"Creative Impulses" series to start this month on BBC-TV will reveal world history through objects created by man down through the ages--including the first hand-axe now resting in the British Museum... more
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EGYPT: New archaeological discovery shows Slaves Did Not Build Pyramids! See slides of tombs belonging to workers and shedding light on how they lived and ate 4,000 years ago... more
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New York artist Eric Fischi's large format oils and watercolour bull-fighting paintings are being shown for the first time in Spain, in a solo show at Malaga's Centre for Contemporary Art... more
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We've all read and seen illustrations for The Three Little Pigs, but have you seen David Wiesner's THE THREE PIGS written/drawn for "cyberkids"? If not, it might not scare, but you're in for a BIG surprise!... more
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PARIS: Daniel Arsham's solo show Animal Architecture includes two-dimensional gouache on mylar drawings, a new series of animal "push puppet" sculptures, and pixel clouds... more
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NEW YORK: So, what does a great art museum like the Met do when a visitor accidentally damages a Picasso worth $millions? Pray for no reduction in value & send for the art restoration experts... more
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A photograph of exotic Marakesh spices in ochre, Sienna and Alizarin yellow leads one by the nose to 'a journey of a thousand miles,' broadening the mind and dialating the nostrils... more
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How Art Affects the Brain: A new exhibit explores science and aesthetics. Organizers say they hope to shed a scientific light on some of the ideas that philosophers have discussed for centuries... more
The late Haida carver Bill Reid provided artistic leadership to many indigenous artists--including Canadian James Hart (of Haida Gwaii) who celebrates his mentor with a new totem pole... more
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Richard Morse, renowned hotelier, writer and musician, has spent the last five days reporting via Twitter on the disaster that befell his beloved island... more
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Along with Sport, Art competitions used to form part of the modern Olympics and earn medals--but since 1954 "artists" have been considered "professional." See 2010 "Cultural" Olympiad replacement... more
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“Evolution may help explain copulation and even cooperation, but can it account for the creative side of human life? Can it explain art?” Brian Boyd's book On the Origin of Stories really tries... more
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The 48-year-old Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) can no longer be accused of being an old boys’ club: Sarah Douglas spoke with Mitchell-Innes about integrity, ethics and why artists should get the same tax breaks as collectors... more
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Belgian figurative artist Luc Tuymans warns not to underestimate the public with over-explanations of your artwork; try to look at it as a spectator would --"Art is not political, life is political"... more
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The recent "holiday hibernation" of Canadian galleries and museums is over with upcoming re-openings, including Edmonton's revamped ultra-modern Gallery of Alberta, promising shows and festivals galore in 2010... more
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The death of Christianity is posing difficulties to curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Apparently, a vast majority of their European visitors, even Christian ones, don’t understand the displays in their Medieval and Renaissance Galleries… more
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Born in Budapest, trained in London and New York, Gladys Perint Palmer's irreverent and instantly recognizable fashion illustration style made her a glamorous and glitzy star on at least two continents... more
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