SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can’t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends his days bedridden in … Read more
POMPEII, Italy — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a volcano in 79 A.D. The inspiration comes from frescoes unearthed inside the archaeological site that show winged cupids dying cloth, gathering grapes for wine … Read more
John Lurie has announced a new double album featuring music from his HBO and Max series Painting With John. The 56-track album is out March 15 via his Strange & Beautiful label. It features new music written specifically for the series and tracks from across his archive. It’s getting a digital and 2xLP vinyl release. … Read more
SHENZHEN, China — In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils. In another, a masked officer and medical workers stand guard in front of an apartment cordoned off with ropes and seals reading “CLOSED,” as residents look on with … Read more
Play video content X / @JustStop_Oil Anti-oil protestors hit the gas on their latest display of environmental activism … breaking through a glass ceiling of sorts … or a pricey glass-covered painting, is more like it. This wild display of a demonstration went down Monday at London’s National Gallery — which was housing the Diego … Read more
PARIS — The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that Leonardo da Vinci used to paint his groundbreaking portrait of the woman with the exquisitely enigmatic smile. The … Read more
Picture: Ashton Gallagher On the planet of popular culture artwork, few artists are as exact and detailed as Ashton Gallagher. His works are so beautiful, so evocative, so effortlessly wonderful, his work are usually mistaken for photographs. However they’re actually not photographs. Gallagher places painstaking time into creating his work, and never solely is he … Read more