Art Contents Archive

Agnes Kasparkova, 90-Year-Old former agricultural worker who turned her small village into an art gallery by hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs, such as flowers, on the local houses. The project took over 13 years #WomensArt https://t.co/fnpXSc1WZc

Come 'Face to Face' with Picasso this summer 🎨 For the first time ever see Picasso's iconic portrait 'Woman with a Book' alongside the masterpiece that inspired it, Ingres’s ‘Madame Moitessier’. Book your free ticket: https://t.co/3AVINo4xoB https://t.co/ZPMLTB2LFk

'Doug Aitken: Flags and Debris' opens today at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.⁠ The exhibition presents wall-hung fabric assemblages which recall flags or banners. These works feature, too, in the artist’s 2021 video of the same name. Presented here as a three-channel installation, the video captures dancers from LA Dance Project as they activate the textiles amid a deserted Los Angeles during lockdown.⁠ ⁠ dougaitkenworkshop israel_museum ladanceproject #DougAitken #FlagsandDebris #ChoreographyintheDesolateCity #dance #video #performance #contemporaryart

We're completely mesmerized by Elspeth McLean's precisely painted stones. https://t.co/JRKutqbg61 https://t.co/ruTI3r8uSK

Contemporary artists are infusing their works with spiritual concepts and religious iconography in efforts to reflect on conflicts and crises of the present. https://t.co/3917Tq81SG

Using immersive audio-visual installations that will allow visitors to experience it for themselves, a major exhibition in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia will track the 400km trek across the desert to Medina made by Prophet Muhammed 1,400 years ago @Ithra https://t.co/1nkQxqRlQz

Pink Sand (1964) by Gertrude Abercrombie aka "the queen of the bohemian artists" who created Surrealist paintings #WomensArt https://t.co/gtvJY2gwQS

Guess the title... (wrong answers only!) This portrait by Jean-Léon Gérôme is of his younger brother, Claude-Armand, who is dressed in the uniform of the École Polytechnique, a prestigious school of higher education in Paris: https://t.co/Hsv0h1Cd30 https://t.co/5tFZDXtCOd

The Horniman Museum agrees to restitute 72 Benin objects, adding pressure on the British Museum to do the same. https://t.co/Lkqk8QSscB

Petition to allow pets into art galleries. RT = agree.

While examining the painting under raking light in preparation for the exhibition "Philip Guston Now," the MFA's conservators recognized the contours of three massive, hooded heads beneath the dark floodwaters. https://t.co/1hdo72aVRc

From the 'Writing in the Sand' Photography series by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #WomensArt https://t.co/QJlWm92Igd

You can now pre-order our new illustrated catalogue all about the artist Winslow Homer, ahead of our autumn exhibition opening in September: https://t.co/jLxolYPHtJ This book provides an introduction to the American painter, one of the most celebrated artists in the USA. https://t.co/ZBVnbv5PyX

A monograph on the ‘master draughtsman’ #DavidHammons features an essay by critically acclaimed poet and novelist #BenOkri, exploring the secret processes through which the artist bore ‘the responsibility for all shadings’. Purchase online: https://t.co/pynHH6J1EN #artbook https://t.co/zI3hzucTOI

This painting now operates not only literally but also metaphorically: hoods (and what they represent) are part of our social fabric as well as our history, present even when “invisible.” 🖼️: "The Deluge" (1969). © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. https://t.co/pDGBKqlfAN