Tag: visual arts
Artist Ramiro Gomez paints cardboard cut-outs of LA's "invisible workers"
Artist and nanny Ramiro Gomez paints life size cardboard cut-outs of housekeepers, landscapers and gardeners to pay homage to the hidden workers behind LA’s wealthiest neighborhoods....
VIDEO: The Passover story, recounted through shadow dance
Passover, the festival honoring the Jewish emancipation from slavery in Egypt, begins Friday night at sundown. The Passover story has been told through numerous mediums, now including silhouette choreography....
Famed British cartoonist Ronald Searle dies at 91
British graphic artist Ronald Searle died at the age of 91. Searle was the author of the St. Trinian’s series and was an illustrator for many news publications. ...
Artist spends decades teaching a computer to paint — successfully
Harold Cohen created AARON to paint. AARON is a computer and for 40 years Cohen has been teaching it all the rules of painting so that, today, it can do work that closely resembles that which you might find from a human....
New York art exhibit explores how we talk to objects
The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition that showcases how people interact with the objects in their everyday world, and the emotions they provoke....
Iconic civil rights painting moves to Oval Office
President Obama installs Norman Rockwell's iconic painting, depicting the 1960 integration of the New Orleans school system, outside the Oval Office. ...
Saving Haiti's art and culture
Haiti's art is in peril after the earthquake ravaged churches and other homes of Haiti's cultural heritage -- saving that art could help with the country's recovery....
Food art: Oreo cookie portraits and bread embroidery
Artist Judith Klausner creates intricate Victorian-style cameo portraits carved out of Oreo cream, and old-fashioned hand-cross-stitch designs with Chex cereal....
High profile art heists on the rise around the world
A $200,000 Picasso sketch, a $350,000 Fernand Léger and 11 paintings valued at $387,000 have all been stolen in the past month....
Why Rembrandts are highly popular with thieves
There have been 81 thefts of Rembrandts in the past 100 years -- the Dutch artist is the second most stolen artist in history, behind Picasso. ...
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