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Artworks Entering Public Domain It has been over 70 years since Matisse, Derain, and Kahlo passed away in 1954. You know what that means, their artworks are now in the public domain. In the US, the UK, the EU, South America, and some other countries, the copyright duration typically lasts for “life plus 70 years.” […]
Christie’s Declining Annual Sales 2024 marks another year in a row for Christie’s declining annual sales, when the auction house announced its projected results on Tuesday, December 17. Since a few sales are yet to be final, all the totals shared are mere estimates. In total, Christie’s generated $5.7 billion this year from live, online,
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A New Milestone for Tate Modern! Tate Modern is turning 25 in May 2025, and they have already unveiled the 25 artworks that defined their Silver Jubilee. The London Museum will celebrate this monumental moment by showcasing monumental pieces by Mark Rothko and Louise Bourgeois. The event – free for all – will take place
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Salvador Gonzales Escalona: Revolutionizing Contemporary Art Salvador Gonzales Escalona (21 October 1948 – 16 April 2021) is a renowned Cuban artist known for his experiments in paintings, sculpture, and murals. He is mononymously known as Salvador, born in Camagüey. He was the cultural promoter Callejón de Hamel Community Sociocultural Project, working around the Cayo Hueso
This Cubano Painter Birthed the Afro-Cubano Santería Read More »
Introduction What if the great painters of art history put their oils and easels away, and picked up Copic markers and digital drawing tablets instead? Would da Vinci, wrote dramatic shōnen fights? Could Van Gogh write a heartbreaking slice-of-life? Envisioning classic painters as manga creators is ridiculous in the best possible way. Jump with me
Which Painters Would Have Made Awesome Manga Artists? Read More »
Introduction Art mirrors society, with its cultural, historical and philosophical underpinning. One of the organising principles of Western art history has been the categorisation of the development of the arts into movements or “isms” such as Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism, which represent identifiable styles, philosophies, and historical phases. Indian art, by contrast, is usually named
As one of the 10 winners of the prestigious First Take 2024, Avijit Dutta also stands as a significant artist in today’s Indian art scene. Born in 1997 in the industrial town of Howrah, West Bengal, he was raised in an atmosphere where the grim realities of industrialisation and its toll on humans and the
Introduction Every year on 26 November, Constitution Day of India also celebrated as “National Law Day”, marks the adoption of the Constitution of India as the supreme law of the land. On 26 September 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution of India and it came into force on January 26 of 1950.
Constitution Day: Why Do We Celebrate Beohar Rammanohar Sinha’s Art on Constitution Day? Read More »
Believed to be the highest price for a work of Surrealism sold at auction, Empire of Light—one of René Magritte’s most iconic works—has set the record among other artworks with its sale for $121.2 million at Christie’s in New York on November 20, 2024. Not only does the milestone make this painting the most expensive
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Apparao Galleries’ Newest Group Show Curiosity draws us beyond the surface, inviting us to look closer and glimpse new possibilities. Each encounter with this beautifully curated collection is a quiet nudge to wonder, to imagine beyond the familiar, where meaning is not fixed but unfolds gradually, layer by layer. ‘Unfolding Curiosities – Imagination Meets Fantasy’