#art

American pop artist who drew on billboard painting techniques to explore consumer culture and advertising.

Born in Calcutta and later part of the Anglo-Indian upper-class before moving to London

He was a French woodblock print artist who lived in Japan most of his life and survived the war in Karuizawa by growing produce and keeping poultry.

Over the past eight years, major biennials have focused on identity, rejecting Western perspectives, and reclaiming precolonial knowledge such as indigenous thought and magic.

In 1930, Margaret Bourke-White was hired to photograph the construction of New York City’s Chrysler Building.

A quote from César Cruz, an advocate for gang violence prevention, Dean of Secondary Schools Program at Harvard University. Born in Guadalajara around 1974, he moved to the United States as an undocumented immigrant at age 9.

Loving Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński’s surreal dystopian realms. Born in 1929, Beksiński was initially a vehicle designer.

In 1988, English art dealer James Birch exhibited Francis Bacon in the USSR. In this book, Birch tells this story.

I love the combination of bright colours and a dark subject matter.

US elites (cultural, government, and security) conspired to make American modernism a successful counterpoint to the socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

I found Gagliardi’s work at 39+ in Singapore and it’s lived rent-free in my mind ever since.

Some beautiful surrealist paintings from David Lee Pereira. I have a soft spot for Dali-style landscape + object/creature compositions like this.