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“The legendary actress visits Christie’s galleries at Rockefeller Center and finds herself captivated by the gilded sculpture.” Thus trumpets the tagline for Nicole Kidman’s assignation with Constantin Brancusi’s bronze and gold leaf Danaïde (1913), circulated online this past…
Mary Heilmann, an influential abstract painter who received her first solo exhibition in a New York museum in her 60s, died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York. Her studio announced the news in an Instagram posting, adding that she died “due to complications from a fall.”…
ARTnewsBrazilian authorities have recovered eight prints from Henri Matisse’s iconic “Jazz” series (1947), the New York Times reports . Two armed men stole the works on December 7 from the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo during public hours at the city’s largest library. In…
ARTnewsA Pablo Picasso painting stolen while on loan from the Guggenheim Museum more than six decades ago has resurfaced, and the museum has gone to court to get it back. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation filed suit in New York State Supreme Court this week, according to…
ARTnewsLikely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be seen and appreciated after a long time out of…
As workers race against the 72-hour, so-called golden window to rescue survivors from collapsed buildings following Monday’s devastating 7.4 earthquake in northern Colombia, the region’s museums are also in serious jeopardy. On Monday evening, Alejandro Garces, a curator at the…
ARTnewsWhen French President Emmanuel Macron visited Damascus in early July, he pledged to support the country’s rebuilding efforts in the wake of former President Basher al-Assad’s overthrow 18 months prior. While the main focus of the visit was economic—Macron discussed reviving…
ARTnewsIf 2025 was the year of the museum robbery, perhaps 2026 will be the year of the recovery. On Friday, Italian police announced that they had recovered three artworks stolen in March from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca near Parma in Northern Italy, according to Reuters . The…
Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she “fought a rare and aggressive cancer, but always…
ARTnewsTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter . Good morning! Police in Italy and Brazil have recovered nearly a dozen paintings stolen over the last year. London’s cultural sector is facing growing scrutiny over salaries…
Writer Sarah Ingle doesn’t hide the fact that her 10-square-foot kitchen, which she once referred to as a “chaotic corner” in her Brooklyn apartment, made her feel a little overwhelmed when she first moved in.Not only was the fridge outside the room, but the kitchen also had…
ARTnewsThe United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums released a statement Tuesday pledging its “unwavering support” for the Smithsonian Institution, as it faces repeated assaults on its integrity and independence by the Trump administration. In the…
Mitchell Charbonneau’s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. Upon entering, I moved to place my coat on a worn, half-open folding chair. Looking more…
ARTnewsA “stunning” British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi in what some have described as a loss to the nation, the Guardian reports. The items were collected by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore on the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO world…
ARTnewsThe San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing “rising operational costs,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reports . The layoffs affected departments across the museum, including programs, development, and exhibitions, and leave the total staff…
ARTnewsJust when it looked like the major auction houses had exhausted the supply of trophy consignments, another heavyweight collection has surfaced. Sotheby’s has secured the collection of the late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, a group of…
New York’s Eden Fine Art filed a legal complaint in New Jersey district court last month, saying that collector Jacob Shochat hasn’t paid for some $822,390 worth of artworks he bought from the gallery. The gallery is accusing the collector, who has a background in medical…
ARTnewsThe Last Museum, an online search engine without any names or credits attached to it, now offers up images of some 6.3 million artworks held in museum collections around the world, searchable by “theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine.” As reported by…
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ARTnewsThe United Arab Emirates landscape is expanding once again, with Sharjah set for the region’s first contemporary crafts museum. The Irthi Museum will open in Sharjah’s Creative Quarter sometime in 2029 and house a permanent collection of contemporary crafts from across the Gulf,…
ARTnewsA former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year. The symposium, titled “Color…
ARTnewsThe third edition of the Atlanta Art Fair (October 1–4) will feature upwards of 67 galleries, convening at Pullman Yards, a 27-acre former rail works in the Kirkwood district. The fair is organized by AMP (Art Market Productions), which also organizes the Seattle Art Fair, Art…
It seems as if more and more people are leaning into darker kitchen cabinets, whether it’s through deeper wood tones or striking paint colors. But sometimes your first try at the dramatic look just isn’t, well, dramatic enough — something Mara Greenwald learned the hard way when…
This marbled seashell craft is such a fun way to turn simple shells into colourful little works of art! The shaving cream marbling creates beautiful swirls on the tissue paper, and once it’s decoupaged onto […]
Here’s a brief lesson on observation from a painting I’m working on. Take a look at the reference photo. In particular, the cascading water. Dan Scott, Upper Portals, 2026, Reference Photo There’s a lot going on here! Let’s try to make sense of it. See the annotated image and my…
I’m working on another painting featuring the Upper Portals of Mount Barney. I wanted to share a quick lesson from the painting so far. I needed to make the light parts of the mountain a bit lighter and crisper. I tried the obvious solution of going over the top with a lighter…
Pencils up, friends! Try creating some charming custom painted shoes for back to school and get into the scholarly spirit. Follow this easy tutorial to make your own. .
The Jacaranda painting I did for the Tree Workshop was accepted as a finalist for the Brisbane Rotary Art Show. Yesterday, I attended the pre-opening ceremony for artists and sponsors with my eldest daughter Elora. Elora has been showing a keen interest in art and I wanted to…
Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Frida Kahlo with our curated collection of inspired crafts. These projects celebrate the iconic artist's legacy and style, from upcycling and paper crafts to painting and embroidery. I first put this collection of Frida Kahlo crafts…
Below is my most recent painting, featuring a rocky creek in the Upper Portals of Mount Barney, Australia. I hiked to this spot with two friends back in December 2025. We camped around the corner for one night. I’ll walk you through how I painted it. Dan Scott, Mount Barney…
I spent most of the morning working out what I’ll paint next. I settled on another scene from my hike to the Upper Portals at Mount Barney. Dan Scott, Upper Portals, Reference Photo, 2026 This area was also the subject of my last painting, which you can see here . I think if…
I haven’t been painting as much lately, as I have been busy putting the finishing touches on the next workshop on ponds and lakes (which should be ready within the next two weeks). But I did manage to complete one new painting: Mount Barney, Upper Portals . Dan Scott, Mount…
After writing the ground post , I was reminded of Julian Onderdonk’s work. He was a master of painting the ground, often studded with bluebonnets, cactus, and other wildflowers. His work is iconic of the Texan landscape (with bluebonnets being the official state flower of…
My recent New Zealand, Autumn Colors painting is a great demonstration of painting fallen leaves and other ground matter. Let’s go a bit deeper on that topic. The ground plays an essential but understated role in almost all paintings, and especially landscape paintings. It also…
I’ve got this painting to the stage where it’s almost done but doesn’t quite feel finished. The problem is, I’m not sure what else it needs. And I don’t want to just add paint and detail just for the sake of it. That’s a sure-fire way to overwork it. I want to share with you a…
I was looking for something in the archives when I came across a few photos of my old “studio”. This was from back in 2016, around the time I was starting Draw Paint Academy. I lived with my brother in a two-bedroom apartment. I had to paint in my room with the easel set up next…