Amanda Ba on her purposefully unsettling paintings

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It is Amanda’s desire in and reading all around significant queer and race principle – specially the functions of Mel Chen and and Donna Haraway – that influenced her current, unnamed collection. Focussing on Mel Chen’s theories of ‘animacy’, which Chen draws absent from the realm of linguistics and rather […]

Christie’s Hong Kong Chinese Paintings Department Presents Exemplary Works from The Classical Period

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This spring, Christie’s is delighted to offer an fantastic assortment of coveted masterpieces in the Wonderful Chinese Classical Paintings And Calligraphy sale on 28 May perhaps. These masterworks characterize pivotal times in Chinese art background. The leading emphasize of the season is the magnificent Washing Horses by Zhao Mengfu as catalogued in Shiqu Baoji (Major). One of the […]

19 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Famous Paintings

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Technically, there’s no earring in Girl with a Pearl Earring. 1. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer VCG Wilson/Corbis / Fine Art / Contributor via Getty Images Vermeer didn’t actually paint the empty background in Girl with a Pearl Earring. He painted a green curtain that has faded with time. […]

David Zwirner is Showing Abstract Paintings by Jesse Murry, Part of Series of Exhibitions Dedicated to Artists Who Died During HIV/AIDS Crisis

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Installation view of “Jesse Murry” at David Zwirner, New York   MARKING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing its first report about what would become known as AIDS, David Zwirner is presenting More Life, a special series dedicated to artists who died from HIV/AIDS-related […]