It’s time for our weekly roundup of the best Art-related News from around the Web. What better way to start than with a tribute to our NHS workers? The artist Aliza Nisenbaum has produced a series of portraits for the Tate Liverpool of doctors, nurses, porters and even a hospital chaplain. She based these paintings…
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Recent Art News – The Best Stories from the Art World
Weekly Link Round Up News from the Art World Weekly Link Roundup It’s that time again. More fun and fascinating articles from around the Web about Art and the Art World. Click on the links to read more about the topics. The most expensive artwork ever sold at a German auction house went for €4.3m. A Girl…
Mark Rothko – Ten Things You Should Know
Mark Rothko – 10 Things to Know 1 Despite being an intelligent and academically minded person, Mark Rothko had almost no training in drawing or painting. He did spend some time with the Cubist painter Max Weber but other than that his artistic skills were largely instinctive. How’s that for raw talent? 2 Mark Rothko…
Gerhard Richter and The Blurring of Certainty – Featured Artist Blog Post
The Dresden-born artist Gerhard Richter is undeniably one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st Century. He is particularly famous for his overpainted photographs, in which he uses the photograph as canvas. Yet he has also shown himself fluent in a variety of mediums including watercolours and oils. Further still he has…
Gifts for Artists – 10 Things To Buy Artists This Christmas
Read on for our best recommendations on Gifts for Artists!