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Inspirations.
Through the Eyes of George Tooker
Paintings by George Tooker.
Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
I love to look at still life paintings. This new acquisition by the Mauritshuis from 2012 is by Clar...
Mona Lisa
looking at the most famous painting in human history. Check out my annotations.
Not at Ikea
You don´t get these beautiful chairs, tables and lamps at IKEA. Perhaps because they did not spot t...
Archeology
photos by Roman Bezjak.
"Roman Bezjak. Archeology of an Era: Socialist Modernism" was on show at t...
The Yellow River
photos by Zhang Kechun.
www.zhangkechun.com
The Yellow River (Huang He) is the second-longest rive...
Non-smokers
Between art and jewellery: Small sculptures and paintings made with enamel and tar on canvas and gra...
Stardust
graphic work by Paul Tebbott from Manchester.
http://cargocollective.com/paultebbott
Time Wasting Experiment
a project by Alyson Provax.
Alyson Provax is an artist living in Portland. She makes work exploring...
Victor Brauner: Peindre, c´est la vie
A collection of art by Victor Brauner.
Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was born in Piatra Neamt in east...
Symbols to adorn
Munich, Germany: Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich shows works by Swiss j...
Food!
the face
Stencils
Boston: Stencil paintings by Kenji Nakayama. Kenji´s diverse practice ranges from careful pinstripi...
Franz West
The oeuvre of Franz West is on show in Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna.
Isabelle Cornaro
New work by Isabelle Cornaro is on show from January 31 to March 24 in Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.
HAPPY
Nagano Toyokazu shares happy moments with us.
Babel
Creation, destruction, power and the conditio humana are the themes running through ´Babel World´ ...
In Your Face
The Ann and Graham Gund Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston shows Mario Testino: In Your Fa...
Irving Penn
Irving Penn (1917-2009) is regarded as one of the leading photographers of our time. Erving Penn: Un...
Low commitment
but wonderful ideas by Tae Kitakata and Brittany Powell. Sandwich art, Self help books, coffee and m...
Collab drawings
wonderful art by Tom and James Hancock.
Architecture for Art
How should a house for Art and Culture look like today? Recent contemporary solutions: OKE, the Cult...
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
The Museum of Modern Art explores development of one of Modernism´s greatest inventions: Abstractio...
Buckminster Fuller
the visionary of structure
Dream Chairs
Chairs designed by artists with disabilities. A cooperation of the Neue Sammlung, the city of Munich...
Sottsass / Japan
Unique Urushi laquer objects from a collaboration of Italian design legend Ettore Sottsass and his J...
Hiroshi Kawano: Pioneer of Computer Art
In 1964, Hiroshi Kawano, a Japanese philosopher teaching aesthetics, published the world´s first co...
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Pieter Bruegel
During his lifetime, Pieter Bruegel the Elder was already among the period’s most sought-after art...
Still Life Monkeys
The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...
Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels
Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...
The Bean King
A painting by Jacob Jordaens
Diego Velázquez
Baroque Master painter Velázquez, celebrated as the "painter of painters" by Édouard Manet, inspir...
Hello Kitty Culture
The iconic Hello Kitty turned forty in 2014. Sanrio and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)...
A Happy and Abundant New Year
Flemish painter Pieter Aertsen was one of the first artists to paint "inverted still lifes," works i...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Speaker
Master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder would often use biblical themes to depict village life as he...
The farmer continued to plough
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is a painting in oil on canvas long thought to be by Pieter Brue...
The Return of the Herd
It is that time again - summer has finally ended, and winter is coming. This 16th century painting b...
William Turner
The exhibition "Late Turner – Painting Set Free" surveys the achievements of JMW Turner (1775–18...
Venice without Tourists
La serenissima
The Harvesters
This painting is one in a series of six works that depict different times of the year. As in many of...
Baroque Co-creation: Jan Brueghel I and Rubens
During the seventieth century, two of the most famous masters of baroque art - Jan Brueghel the Elde...
Dürer - Observer of Nature
Master print-maker, draftsman, and the Renaissance man from Germany, Albrecht Dürer was a keen obse...
20th Century Silver Tea and Coffee Sets
Today the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig holds some 300 silver objects. Silver colle...
Georg Flegel: Still Life Painter
Georg Flegel (1566 – 23 March 1638, Frankfurt-am-Main) was a German painter. He is today best know...
Avedon & His Friends
In addition to straightforward fashion shoots, which secured the financial basis of his practice, Av...
An Art Collector in His Art Chamber
2014 is the anniversary year of four-hundredth birthday of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662) of H...
Venice of America
The Venice recreation area opened on July 4, 1905. Unfortunately for Abbot Kinney, the developer of ...
Summer by Arcimboldo
Call him creative, whimsical, or deranged. Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a stained-glass ...
Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey
This painting tells the story of a poem about how Cupid complains to his mother, Venus (the goddess ...
Parmigianino: Schiava Turca
The exquisite portrait of an unknown woman called the Schiava Turca ("Turkish slave") is an icon of...
Prince of the streets
Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) is one of the most influential photographers of his generation. During t...
San Marco by Canaletto
With the Palazzo di San Marco on the right and the Palazzo Ducale on the left, this painting depict...
I Feel Fine
When the Beatles came to Paris in 1964 to perform a series of concerts at l’Olympia, they chose th...
Rembrandt Bugatti
Rembrant Bugatti (1884-1916), son of furniture designer Carlo Bugatti and brother of automotive desi...
Egg Dance
An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal...
Dummies and Dolls
Laurie Simmons works with dummies and dolls. She was born on Long Island, New York, in 1949. She rec...
The Fight between Carnival and Lent
Easter is coming near. A time to say good-bye to Lent and say hello to springtime.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde, one of the most prominent German Expressionists, found his style influenced by Scandinav...
Preraphaelites
a collection
The World of Fabergé
As part of the Austro-Russian Cultural Season, the Kunsthistorisches Museum is hosting a major exhib...
Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, painted in the 1620s by Pieter Bruegel the Younger. This is the P...
The Gloomy Day
This painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts a typical day in the month of February. The sky is...
Fabio Marco Pirovino
Born in 1980, Pirovano lives and works in Basel and Zürich. In 2007, he graduated from the Photogr...
The Hunters in the Snow
Also known as The Return of the Hunters, this winterscape painted by Flemish master Pieter Bruegel t...
Albrecht Dürer: Melancholia
Albrecht Dürer was one of the greatest masters of the Northern Renaissance. Melencolia I is a depic...
The Grand Budapest Hotel
A few images ahead of the new movie by Wes Anderson, starring Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Owen Wil...
Transport
Photography by Thomas Eigel (Germany).
Leisure
Art by Toni Spyra, Vienna. http://spyras.tumblr.com/
Basilicas
Basilicas' is a series of prints by Adrian Johnson and opens July 25, 2013 at Kemistry gallery, 43 C...
