‘A set takes over a month to create’: How Ganjifa, the royal art of hand-painted playing cards, is finding new life in Sawantwadi
By capturing the essence of India's rich artistic heritage, Sawantwadi Palace and its artisans are reviving a 16th-century ...
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The Most Famous Statues of Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty
Across history, the goddess Aphrodite has remained a prominent figure of beauty and love, and many statues have been built in ...
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...
Walters Art Museum to open its first permanent Latin American art exhibit in Baltimore
Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum is opening its first permanent exhibition celebrating Latin American art this spring.
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Karanjit Panesar Refuses to Be Consumed
At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist obliquely references his own diasporic family history whilst resisting the exploitation of identity ...
Look again: How a Pune painter is asking viewers to re-imagine women in different contexts
Pune-based artist Arpa Mukhopadhyay worked in the IT industry for many years. Mukhopadhyay got into professional painting ...
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Balinese illustrator Cokorda Martin on the island's enduring spirit and spots that inspire him most
The talented artist captures the changing face of Bali through a striking blend of local mythology and Chinese-Japanese ...
African mythology and folklore collide in William Villalongo’s entrancing velvety portraits
The Tyler school alum, who will have a career retrospective at PAFA, draws inspiration from the resilience and beauty of ...
She ditched massage therapy for murals. But Shellshaker's more than her dragons
Shela Yu's dreamy, vibrant murals are all over metro Phoenix. But the Arizona-born-and-raised muralist didn't always think ...
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The Art World’s Next Big Thing: Tiny Paintings
Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of ...
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Never-before-seen series of ancient paintings dug up in Pompeii provide clues on rituals tied to Greek god
A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine in the ancient city that was destroyed ...
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Very rare paintings depicting the god of wine unearthed in Pompeii 2,000 years after city was buried by ash and lava
An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...