Art Contents Archive

And breeeathe - you made it through January. 💙 🌊 Jem Southam, Clevedon, Blind Yeo, January 2000 🍃 Wolfgang Tillmans, Fluten 1997 🖌️ JMW Turner, Sea and Sky, English Coast 1830, on display @TateLiverpool ⛵ Karl Weschke, The Nile near Kom Ombo 1994, on display @Tate_StIves https://t.co/XtKg3K8zwh

From experiments with Arabic scripts to abstract strokes and spontaneous movements, artists have been experimenting with the expressive possibilities of calligraphy since the 1950s and 60s. See these works in Gallery 404: Calligraphic Abstraction → https://t.co/pUClgEKomH https://t.co/ksLtx4elSG

Imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has declared a hunger strike until he is released from Iran's notorious Evin prison. https://t.co/U2jmLCC41D

"Abstract Expressionism," wrote the US poet Frank O'Hara, is the "art of serious men". A new ambitious show at London's @_TheWhitechapel aims to set the record straight with an exhibition of the movement's forgotten women https://t.co/AP1Bb6eMVB

Join us from 6 to 8pm tonight at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, for the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin: https://t.co/fh2vVzVznO https://t.co/LC41dDd4yC

Witchy Potion, Me, watercolor and ink, 2023

We’re kicking off our annual #LunarNewYear celebration with a lion dance by @WahLumBoston! 🦁🧧 Admission is $5, and we’re open until 10 pm. https://t.co/kcR62C6BgB

Take your ceramics to a higher level with noted pothead Seth Rogan at his new Airbnb retreat: https://t.co/vZlT8PVMCu https://t.co/r9pEhO2By3

A large curvaceous, reflective sculpture by Anish Kapoor that was commissioned for a prominent corner in Lower Manhattan back in 2008 has finally been completed. https://t.co/yT2nRjmKOx

Shown here: Friedrich Kunath, 'Sorry, But I Have A Dream To Catch' (2019) presented by Blum & Poe at Art Basel 2019. 📍 Do not miss Friedrich Kunath's solo exhibition at Blum & Poe Los Angeles, on view until February 25, 2023. 👉 More information: https://t.co/a80OfsvvmR https://t.co/62ozrBzPci

dodo, vallavica, polymer clay, 2023

77-year-old artist Elena Osipova now faces up to 15 years in prison for violating a law enacted last year that made “discrediting Russian armed forces” and anti-war protests illegal. https://t.co/V6pS0L4L6j

'Lovely', me, acrylics, 2023

Cindy Sherman is being honoured with a retrospective at the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts in Buffalo, New York, the city where she had her first solo show nearly 50 years ago. https://t.co/wXWJF2M7i6

“Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond” highlights a group of artists who found acclaim and patronage only to fall back into obscurity. https://t.co/o0xMtXkeVM