Image of the Maya Angelou district FILE – In this file photo from November 21, 2008, poet Maya Angelou smiles at an event in Washington. On Monday, January 10, 2022, the United States Mint announced that it had begun shipping quarters bearing the effigy of poet Maya Angelou, the first coins of its American Women […]
Read MoreCannon Dill was the kid who always had paint on his hands. Even today as an adult, making art is really the only thing he can focus on. “I’m a very calm person, too calm for retail jobs and too anxious for office work,” he told 48hills. “Art has always been my thing, it makes […]
Read MoreThe photo taken on Jan. 2, 2022 shows miniature sculptures carved by Egyptian artist Fady Francis in his studio in Cairo, Egypt. On a table in downtown Cairo, Fady Francis, 30, lines up miniature sculptures of 100 influential global figures, standing side by side in harmony, though the figures are from different cultures, speak different […]
Read More“There is a Lajpat Nagar for each Khan market, a Daryaganj for each Vasant Kunj. But all of them know their “place”. They are judged, but are fully aware that they are also judging others. They don’t hesitate to show who they are, ”explains Juhi Chaturvedi. In the limited series #DilliDelhi, Devansh Sharma interviews screenwriters […]
Read MoreIcon writer Alexandr Tsypkov (All images are used with permission from the artist) Every now and then we are caught off guard by something so beautiful that we run out of words to describe it. This is what happened to me when I first saw the work of Alexandr Tsypkov, an icon writer who beautifies […]
Read MoreA letter to mom It’s trueI was created in you.it’s also trueThat you were created for me. – Maya Angelou My first semester in college. You arrived between your lectures, suitcases and admirers in tow. Turning down the plentiful offers of hospitality in Cambridge, you shared (and immediately redecorated) the room and a half allocated […]
Read MoreAustere but haunting: a portrait painter puts flesh on the bones of a powerful exhibition Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. to cancel An icon depicting a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret A block arrow icon pointing right. E-mail An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook A Facebook “f” brand icon. Google […]
Read MoreA Chinese painter who hides his face behind a mask to remain anonymous organized the first exhibition in Tokyo of his ink and wash portraits honoring 86 human rights champions in China. The 71-year-old artist, who arrived in Japan in 1987, said he wanted the Japanese to learn more about the deterioration of human rights […]
Read MoreOn a hot 2014 afternoon, huge orange flames sucked oxygen from the air surrounding the ancient gold mining town of Happy Camp, California. They stretched and danced across the dry valley, ravaging the Klamath National Forest in a fit of black smoke. Photographer James Balog watched from the colder end of the increasing temperature gradient, […]
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose colorful and luscious paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuality, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has passed away. He was 101 years old. His death was confirmed on Sunday in a statement by his Acquavella gallery. Thiebaud died at his Sacramento home over Christmas, Eleanor […]
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