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What is the most controversial royal portrait in history? | Artnet News
Artnet News· 2 days agoFor centuries portrait painting has emphasized the sitter’s splendor and status, but Yeo preferred...
The Best Bars in America 2024
Esquire via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoThe Best Bars in America 2024courtesy of bar Sometimes you just want to settle in. Sometimes you need to call the audible, cancel the next meetup, ask ...
June Mendoza captured both the famous and the unknown
The Economist· 2 days agoBritain’s most prolific portrait-painter died on May 15th, aged 99
Life Imitates (Wall) Art: Who’s That Random Dude on Your Wall?
Architectural Digest via Yahoo News· 7 days ago“An unknown portrait impels you to imagine the story behind the sitter’s life,” says Anthony...
Sitting in this way can benefit your whole body, say experts
NY Post via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHowever, the experts said that the cross-legged position doesn’t need to be on the ground to help ...
Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach form part of Sotheby’s summer exhibition
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFor the most part, it was Freud who selected the sitter for his paintings, but in this case, it was...
Who’s That Random Dude on Your Wall?
Architectural Digest· 7 days ago“We were strictly purchasing a vibe,” says Lauren Piscone, an interior designer and co-owner, with Allie Fitzpatrick, of the antiques gallery Galerie...
Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious
The Conversation· 7 hours agoWayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, has a sense of humour. The main entrance to this year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition features a giant black ...
Entwined for Life | Lucy Scholes
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoLast year, on holiday in Cornwall, I found a copy of A Private View of Stanley Spencer in a secondhand bookshop. The book is Preece’s memoir of their highly unconventional and often fraught ...
Art Bites: The Tumultuous Friendship Between Cassatt and Degas
Artnet News· 6 days agoIn 1875, Mary Cassatt was strolling along Boulevard Haussmann when a pastel drawing in a shop window...
