You've got mail! The New York paper sending you artworks in the post
2 HRS AGO - If lockdown has New Yorkers going postal, the independent journal Civilization has revived the Expand
2 HRS AGO - If lockdown has New Yorkers going postal, the independent journal Civilization has revived the tradition of mail art in order to make us all feel less isolatedIn New York in the early 1960s, the pop artist Ray Johnson pioneered mail art, posting drawings and notes to friends, which he invited them to augment. His aim was to bring art out of the galleries, and to use the postal service as an element of the artwork.Now, in 2020, as coronavirus rages through the city, the people behind Civilization – a singular print publication stuffed full of the musings of random New Yorkers – are reviving the concept. For $3 (£2.40), which you pay through their online store, they’ll send you a personalised letter. Open the eccentrically stamped envelope and you’ll find a four-page message that starts with your name, and an admission that the writer misses you. Continue reading... Collapse
A glimpse of something wonderful': great pivotal moments - in pictures
8 HRS AGO - A kiss by the sea, a disco in Wolverhampton, the shoot that made Marilyn Monroe ... ‘turning Expand
8 HRS AGO - A kiss by the sea, a disco in Wolverhampton, the shoot that made Marilyn Monroe ... ‘turning point’ images by Magnum photographers are being sold for $100 apiece to aid Covid-19 relief Continue reading... Collapse
Tamron Unveils Extremely Affordable 70-180mm F/2.8 for Sony E-Mount
11 HRS AGO - After announcing the lens as “in development” way back in October, Tamron has finally Expand
11 HRS AGO - After announcing the lens as “in development” way back in October, Tamron has finally officially unveiled the 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD for the Sony E-mount—a 70-200mm f/2.8 competitor for full-frame mirrorless that costs just $1,200. That’s less than half the price of Sony’s $2,600 70-200mm f/2.8 GM. The 70-180mm f/2.8 is the third and […] Collapse
Fox Steals Phone While It’s Recording, Cuteness Ensues
19 HRS AGO - If you’re feeling down and need a smile, check out this 1-minute video of a fox stealing a Expand
19 HRS AGO - If you’re feeling down and need a smile, check out this 1-minute video of a fox stealing a phone from a human and running away with it. The video was shared yesterday by Mikayla Raines, founder of SaveAFox Rescue, a Minnesota-based non-profit that’s decided to saving foxes from sickness, injury, abandonment, and fur farms. Raines […] Collapse
Coronavirus art challenge: how a pan turned me into the Duke of Urbino
1 DAY AGO - The Getty Museum is challenging people to recreate masterpieces during self-isolation. Could my Expand
1 DAY AGO - The Getty Museum is challenging people to recreate masterpieces during self-isolation. Could my wife and I become a Piero della Francesca painting using tinfoil and headphones? • The best arts and entertainment during self-isolationLike most great ideas, it came from my wife. She had discovered the Getty Museum Challenge while scrolling through Twitter and concluded it would be a good idea if we were to join in and recreate a work of art using household objects. It sounded like a lot of hard work – not to mention an impossibly high bar, as one genius had recreated Dalí’s The Persitance of Memory using a cardboard box and a laptop – so my first, and indeed second, instinct was to refuse.But Jill was insistent and said she had found the ideal painting: a portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino by Piero della Francesca, of which she had postcards on her study wall. Ideal because the duke looked every bit as gloomy and miserable as me. So she set to work. For her own likeness, she Collapse
The great British art quiz: set by Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
1 DAY AGO - The latest in our series of quizzes set by British museums and galleries closed during the corona Expand
1 DAY AGO - The latest in our series of quizzes set by British museums and galleries closed during the corona lockdown comes from Pallant House Gallery. Explore its collection as you answer these teasersThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are from Pallant House Gallery in West Sussex. Located in the heart of Chichester on the south coast, Pallant House is a unique combination of a Grade I-listed, Queen Anne townhouse and an award-winning contemporary extension. Winner of the 2007 Gulbenkian prize for museums and galleries, Pallant House Gallery has one of the most significant collections of modern British art in Britain. Continue reading... Collapse
Boston's Apollo: Sargent's model and hidden black nobility in American art
2 DAYS AGO - Coronavirus claimed the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s exhibition but its catalogue is required Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Coronavirus claimed the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s exhibition but its catalogue is required reading on race and US cultureBoston’s Apollo, Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, was meant to examine a contradiction of race and visibility. Its intended run, from 13 February to 17 May, was curtailed by the coronavirus outbreak. Fortunately, we are left with a handsome and well-illustrated catalog from Yale University Press. Related: Wilmington's Lie review: race, outrage and the roots of modern inequality Continue reading... Collapse
Simone Lia: Are you OK?
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TikTok Star Draws Heat for Crashing Wedding Photographer’s Shoot
2 DAYS AGO - A photographer and TikTok star is catching criticism after posting a video of himself crashing a Expand
2 DAYS AGO - A photographer and TikTok star is catching criticism after posting a video of himself crashing a wedding photographer’s photo shoot with a bride and groom, asking the couple to take time out of their session to pose for him instead. San Francisco-based photographer Alex Stemplewski, who has 188,000+ followers on Instagram and 6.9 million+ followers […] Collapse
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Inside the 'healing' Louise Bourgeois exhibition you can experience online
6 HRS AGO - A new digital exhibition examines a storied career through a selection of drawings believed to be Expand
6 HRS AGO - A new digital exhibition examines a storied career through a selection of drawings believed to be ‘a great mirror for our current day-to-day’The French American artist Louise Bourgeois spent her life making artwork – mostly alone – in her New York studio. Now, with a global pandemic, and the country on lockdown, it’s an arguably perfect time to look back on some of her drawings, which capture the poetry of solitude.To celebrate her work, New York gallery Hauser & Wirth has launched their first online exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings, 1947 – 2007, showcasing 14 drawings from the artist’s long career, which spanned seven decades. They’re calling it an online exhibit presentation and the drawings are featured alongside a short documentary of the artist in her studio. Continue reading... Collapse
Silhouetto: the visual appeal of tiny figures – a photo essay
8 HRS AGO - Christopher Thomond reflects on the photojournalists’ device of including a lone figure or person Expand
8 HRS AGO - Christopher Thomond reflects on the photojournalists’ device of including a lone figure or person in shadow to bring an image to lifeEight or nine photographers, a couple of TV camera crews and a handful of journalists were standing outside a tired, nondescript building near Liverpool earlier this year as a major news story unfolded. Though this sort of scenario is far from my daily working environment, I recognised the familiar patterns of behaviour. Everyone present had taken and filed the straightforward, scene-setting shots and there was a lull as friendly rivals awaited the next development. No substantial change was expected for several hours. A lone male walked across the scene in the distance and, without a prearranged signal or a word being exchanged, all the Nikons and Canons burst into life and recorded his every footstep at 12 frames per second. As the collective motordrive clatter faded, one of the agency guys broke into a verse of Bohemian Rhapsody: “I see a little Collapse
Arts Society to launch online lectures for over-70s
15 HRS AGO - Lineup includes online lectures, films and live Q&As over the next few monthsA free lockdown Expand
15 HRS AGO - Lineup includes online lectures, films and live Q&As over the next few monthsA free lockdown arts programme aimed at the over-70s will kick off on Tuesday morning with a lecture on one of the most mysterious paintings in art: the Velázquez masterpiece Las Meninas.The Arts Society, the UK’s leading arts education charity with 90,000 members, has announced a series of free online lectures, film screenings and live Q&As by authors that will run over the coming months. Continue reading... Collapse
This Photographer Shot a Wet Plate Portrait Over Video Chat
20 HRS AGO - Photographers around the world have been getting creative to keep their skills sharp during the Expand
20 HRS AGO - Photographers around the world have been getting creative to keep their skills sharp during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and widespread home quarantine. While many photographers are experimenting with doing remote photo shoots over video chat, Shane Balkowitsch took it to a new level by capturing a wet plate portrait. As far as Balkowitsch can tell […] Collapse
Bathtime and black paint: Tracey Emin posts lockdown diary
1 DAY AGO - Artist has been sharing her life on Instagram in a project for White Cube galleryTracey Emin has Expand
1 DAY AGO - Artist has been sharing her life on Instagram in a project for White Cube galleryTracey Emin has gone from fear and numbness to angrily shouting at a stranger to losing herself in painting, her lockdown diary reveals.The artist has been sharing her life on Instagram with a daily diary of written thoughts, images and short film from her bathroom and studio. Continue reading... Collapse
Olivier awards greatest moments - in pictures
1 DAY AGO - The Guardian photographer David Levene takes a look back at London’s biggest stage night of the Expand
1 DAY AGO - The Guardian photographer David Levene takes a look back at London’s biggest stage night of the year. The 2020 awards ceremony, due to be held on April 5 at the Royal Albert Hall, is no longer going ahead due to the coronavirus. The winners will now be announced in a ceremony later this year Continue reading... Collapse
Your pictures: share your photos on the theme of ‘vivid’
2 DAYS AGO - Wherever you are in the world, this week we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘vivid’The Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Wherever you are in the world, this week we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘vivid’The next theme for our weekly photography assignment, published in print in the Observer New Review is ‘vivid’.Share your photos of what vivid means to you – and tell us about your image in the description box. Continue reading... Collapse
The big picture: Rene Burri's shadows of doubt
2 DAYS AGO - The chance appearance of a mysterious foursome on a São Paulo rooftop provided the Magnum Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The chance appearance of a mysterious foursome on a São Paulo rooftop provided the Magnum photographer with a memorable shotThere seem to be two distinct ways of looking at René Burri’s Men on a Rooftop, a defining picture by the renowned Magnum photographer, taken in São Paulo in 1960. One views it as a supreme exercise in composition, like an abstract painting: the photograph is divided into three vertical sections – road, buildings and rooftop – each delineated by contrasts in sunlight and shadow. The image is a photographic equivalent of the modernist architecture it celebrates, dwelling on concrete geometries.In the other way of seeing, the eye fixes on the four figures on the roof. The cityscape below and its teeming traffic becomes a vertiginous backdrop to their curious, elongated silhouettes. The four are cast in an apparently conspiratorial drama that demands to be understood. What is their purpose up there? Why are three of the figures in step behind the man ahead? The Collapse
Behind the iron curtain, the final frontier: Soviet space art – in pictures
2 DAYS AGO - With more than 250 artworks sourced from cold war-era Russian magazines, Alexandra Sankova’s book Expand
2 DAYS AGO - With more than 250 artworks sourced from cold war-era Russian magazines, Alexandra Sankova’s book Soviet Space Graphics: Cosmic Visions from the USSR (Phaidon £24.95), produced with the Moscow Design Museum, explores “the dream of conquering space”.One of the most vibrant publications was Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth) its “unearthly palettes of pink-violet and ochre-scarlet colours”, says Sankova, pulling readers into stories of “inventions and innovations, the mysterious and unknown”. Continue reading... Collapse
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The great British art quiz: set by Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Cornwall
7 HRS AGO - British museums and galleries are closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their Expand
7 HRS AGO - British museums and galleries are closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their collections through a daily quiz, set by a different institution each dayThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Penlee House is the only Cornish public gallery specialising in the historic art of west Cornwall, including the Newlyn School artists (1880–1940). Set in an elegant Victorian house and park, it has built an international reputation for its year-round programme of exhibitions, which offer the unique opportunity of viewing works a stone’s throw from where they were created. Continue reading... Collapse
Art sale to benefit the NHS in a time of crisis – in pictures
8 HRS AGO - The James Hyman Gallery in London has launched an online fundraising sale, with all profits going Expand
8 HRS AGO - The James Hyman Gallery in London has launched an online fundraising sale, with all profits going to the health service. All the pieces, by artists including Henry Moore, Bill Brandt and Marc Quinn, are available at a discount - here’s a selectionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Continue reading... Collapse
Hacker Discovers Apple Cameras Can Be ‘Hijacked,’ Earns $75K Bug Bounty
18 HRS AGO - A security researcher is being rewarded handsomely after he discovered a massive iOS and MacOS Expand
18 HRS AGO - A security researcher is being rewarded handsomely after he discovered a massive iOS and MacOS camera flaw that would allow bad actors to hijack the camera and microphone in any iPhone or Mac computer, and use it to spy on you. The vulnerability, actually a series of three vulnerabilities used together, were discovered by security […] Collapse
Andy Warhol: Take a virtual tour around the Tate Modern exhibition
1 DAY AGO - From silver wigs to immigration forms, let the curators of the Tate’s Warhol exhibition take you Expand
1 DAY AGO - From silver wigs to immigration forms, let the curators of the Tate’s Warhol exhibition take you up close and personal with the mythical artist Didn’t get a chance to see the Tate’s marvellous Warhol exhibition before Coronavirus locked everything down? Fear not. You can still experience what it’s like to be famous for 15 minutes (ok, technically 6m 59s) by watching this new video that the gallery have released, in which the curators take you around the show – from the immigration forms that document Andy’s parents arrival in the US to the artworks that grappled with his sexuality and sense of mortality.It may not be a real life visit, but it’s nevertheless a chance to get up close and personal with Warhol’s work in a whole new way as our guides provide insights on everything from his influence to his silver wigs. Continue reading... Collapse
How to take the perfect picture of the supermoon this week
1 DAY AGO - The April 2020 supermoon will be the biggest and brightest of 2020 as its elliptical orbit brings Expand
1 DAY AGO - The April 2020 supermoon will be the biggest and brightest of 2020 as its elliptical orbit brings it closer to the Earth in more than a year. On 7-8 April, the full moon will reach as close as Collapse
Coronavirus street art - in pictures
1 DAY AGO - Covid-19 is the subject of topical, colourful and attention-grabbing street art, whether it is for Expand
1 DAY AGO - Covid-19 is the subject of topical, colourful and attention-grabbing street art, whether it is for artistic, educational or political ends Continue reading... Collapse
This week's best culture, indoors: from Trolls on Tour to lockdown with Miranda Hart
2 DAYS AGO - The Observer’s critics recommend the best new arts shows to enjoy on TV, on the radio and Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The Observer’s critics recommend the best new arts shows to enjoy on TV, on the radio and onlineTrolls World TourGreat news for families under lockdown: one of the few blockbuster titles braving a digital-only release is this candy-coloured sequel to the ultra-peppy animated musical phenomenon. At home on-demand from 6 April. Guy Lodge Continue reading... Collapse
Culture quiz: from Warhol's portraits to shooting a man in Reno
2 DAYS AGO - Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s criticsAccording to John Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s criticsAccording to John Huston, what was the best part of being a director? The catering serviceSadismYou get to decide how long the bar stays openKeanu Reeves’s first name is Hawaiian for what?A cool breeze over the mountainsMighty tree by the waterFragrant cloudWhich of the following on set injuries did Twister director Jan De Bont suffer at the start of his career when he was working as a cinematographer?He was mauled by a lion and had to have his scalp sewn back onHe broke a collarbone after falling out of a second-storey window while attempting to frame an establishing shotHe got his foot caught in a camera tracking rail, and his toe had to be amputatedWhich of these is not a statue?Venus of WillendorfVenus of MiloVenus of UrbinoVenus of BrassempouyWhich of these composers did Andy Warhol not paint?BeethovenHaydnWagnerMozartThe head of which British composer has featured on a UK bank note?Henry PurcellEdward Collapse
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