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Chris Burden’s Samson tries to destroy a museum from within

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

What do you think would happen if you connect a 100-ton jack to a turnstile and gearbox? In case you feel confused with all that, then you’re probably unfamiliar with Chris Burden’s Samson. Burden (1946-2015) has managed to employ different items to create a stunning piece of artwork. Apart from the items above, the rest […]

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Why did Andy Warhol die?

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Andy Warhol was a renowned pop artist. He is a Pennsylvanian native, having been born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928. His parents were Ondrej Warhola, an emigrant coal worker, and Julia. Warhol feared hospitals and doctors since his childhood, and for this reason, he would be bedridden when he fell sick. Education He completed

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Sister Corita Kent’s Rules For Creatives – Why they matter today

Mixed media / 4 minutes of reading

Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) was a Roman Catholic nun and one of the most unusual artists of her time. Kent lived in Los Angeles, where she befriended contemporaries such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage and Buckminster Fuller. Inspired by Andy Warhol, she started creating pop art herself, specializing in printmaking and social activism. Video: Art

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Ryan McGinley’s nude Yearbook photos (NSFW)

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

In art, the more authentic a piece is, the greater it is appreciated by art enthusiasts. For artists like Ryan McGinley who use nudity as a medium for their art, the message remains the same; exclusivity. Yearbook might be a single artwork, but each of the more than 500 portraits taken in a studio makes

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What does the crown in Basquiat’s paintings mean?

Paintings / 10 minutes of reading

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. He was one of the most influential American artists and focused on “suggestive dichotomies,” including integration versus segregation, wealth versus poverty, and inner versus outer experience. He is considered to be the founder of the neo-expressionism movement. Crown Since introducing the crown symbol

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Why did Ai Weiwei create this giant tea cube?

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei has never held back in terms of the amount of experimentation he’s willing to involve in his art. He has attracted much attention in China and the rest of the world for being a controversial artist. His work A Ton of Tea (2007) is easy to understand, as the name suggests, without losing

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Huang Yong Ping’s Bank of Sand – A clever 20 ton sculpture

Architecture, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

In 2018, Gladstone Gallery in New York presented a rare spectacle of art; Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank. A thought-provoking artwork, from renown Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping. Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank is a monumental piece, stretching 6 meters in length, 4.3 meters in width, and standing 3.5 meters tall. Modeled after

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The story behind Roy Lichtenstein’s Happy Tears pop art painting

Paintings / 4 minutes of reading

49 min 5 sec Roy Lichtenstein was a very famous pop artist who passed away in 1997. He became a leading figure in of the new art movement Pop Art together with Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and James Rosenquist. Pop Art is a painting style that involves bold and cartoon-like drawings, often integrating text and

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Anish Kapoor’s Marsyas really is 150m long

Sculptures / 5 minutes of reading

Anish Kapoor is a British-Indian sculptor who is well-known especially for his large-scale sculptures and installations. His work does not entail and explore the human body but one of his finest creation Marsyas is an exception. A little about Anish Kapoor Many describe Kapoor’s work as enigmatic. He has been creating powdered pigment sculptures, a

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What happens in Cyprien Gaillard’s Nightlife?

Installations, Mixed media / 4 minutes of reading

Cyprien Gaillard is known for creating work that interconnects history and nature, as well as humankind’s connection to both. In particular, Gaillard is known for exploring the beauty of failure and the natural collapse of things in general, and in particular, only deeply interested in ruins. His work spans numerous mediums, including etching, performance art

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David Hockney’s Pool with Two Figures broke an important record

Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

David Hockney’s Roosevelt Hotel pool mural David Hockney is one of Britain’s most influential artists of the 20th century. Hockney is well known in other parts of the world as well, thanks to his internationally recognized works. For instance, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which has long been the meeting spot for the stars and celebrities

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Yang Fudong’s Coloured Sky – Dream & nightmare of the idealized woman

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Yang Fudong’s multi-screen video installation titled The Coloured Sky: New Women II was created in 2014 to portray today’s radiantly colored world. Though Yang had racked up a reputation for himself for working with film, The Coloured Sky: New Women was actually the artist’s first piece of color digital film. Composition The multi-screen video installation

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Marina Abramović’s manifesto – Rules on life, silence & solitude

Mixed media / 4 minutes of reading

It is undisputed that Marina Abramović is one of the most renowned and impactful performance artists of our time. She dabbled in performance and feminist art at a time when the concept of shame and the nature of this type of art was considered radical. Her brand of performance art involved the use of her

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Anselm Kiefer - Breaking of the Vessels (Bruch der Gefäße), 1990, Saint Louis Art Museum

Anselm Kiefer’s Breaking of the vessels refers to..?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Anselm Kiefer’s work can be best described as unshrinking. Unlike so many German artists from his generation, Keifer has made a successful career out of facing up to the political injustices of the world, particularly the fascist regimes’ atrocities that were committed against the Jews during World War 2. Though he was born in 1945

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What makes Cy Twombly’s Louvre ceiling painting so special?

Murals, Paintings / 6 minutes of reading

If you ever find yourself in Paris, Cy Twombly’s mural in Louvre is well worth visiting. Cy Twombly was remarkable in every way, having created a lasting legacy with his works, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photography. He was one of the key figures in 20th-century art. In his works, he combined painting and drawing

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Pieter Hugo interview – How can art change the world?

Interviews / 3 minutes of reading

4 min 43 sec Art affects us from childhood to adulthood. Children active in art subjects develop faster, unlike their counterparts. For adults, it helps us elicit sentiments and express ourselves. Art can change the world. In his talk, Pieter Hugo explored an artist’s challenges and the role art plays in our lives. Art Gives

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See how Jim Lambie’s hypnotic floor installations transform rooms

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Jim Lambie is a visual artist, sculptor, and musician. He is perhaps most famous for his colorful and mesmerizing floor tapestries. Lambie’s floor art is done using differently colored duct tape that runs in straight lines to form colorful repetitive patterns that change the visual dynamics of a space in a big way. For this

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What is Xu Bing’s impressive Book from the Sky all about?

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

The Book from the Sky is one of the most intriguing Chinese art installations of the century and the nifty work of none other than the celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing. This installation comprises a set of 4 hand-printed books, as well as wall and ceiling scrolls printed in the style of a wood letterpress.

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Do Yue Minjun’s self portraits make you laugh?

Paintings / 3 minutes of reading

Yue Minjun’s style is easily be recognized. His self-portrait oil paintings depict himself in vivid colors while grinning with his mouth gaping. An oxymoron of sorts, the self-portraits evoke feelings of sympathy as well as humor. The depictions of himself in various poses laughing draw numerous diverse interpretations. However, the general consensus is that while

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Tokujin Yoshioka’s Rainbow Church – The liberation of light

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Rainbow church is aptly named and refers to an eight-meter-high installation that creates a rainbow as light is refracted within its space. The installation is a wall of crystal prism that throws off rainbows to anyone within the installation space. The 500 crystal prisms that make up the installation allow light passing through them to

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Philippe Parreno’s helium-filled balloons create striking installations

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Philippe Parreno likes to work across different mediums. As a result, throughout his career that has spanned decades, he has been able to blur the lines between film, photography, documentaries, and various other types of media. He has built up interest over the years that allowed him to distort the established boundaries that exist between

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