All posts tagged "Art"

NEW YORK CITY— Jessica Jarva scanned the growing line of anxious people waiting alongside the New York City courthouse where Donald Trump was on trial.

The sun had set and rain fell unabated. Jarvaland, as the artist calls herself, knew she, too, would be spending a rainy night in a dark alleyway — for the love of Michael Cohen’s right eyebrow.

“It’s incredible,” the Brooklyn artist told Raw Story of the Trump fixer-turned-foe’s arching brow. “Some people are a delight to draw.” ...

One structured and austere, the other sensual and joyous -- Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir were two founding fathers of Impressionism, but a new Milan exhibition explores their sharply different styles.

Marking 150 years since the founding of the art movement, 52 masterpieces by the two Frenchmen are on loan from Paris for an unprecedented show at the Palazzo Reale -- alongside two by Picasso, whom they inspired.

The paintings date from the 1870s to the early 20th century....

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, former President Donald Trump got a new mugshot.

His official presidential portrait, destined for a Smithsonian Institution museum, remains on track, too, Raw Story has learned.

An official for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery confirmed to Raw Story that Trump’s litany of felony charges has not altered the museum’s plans to facilitate, unveil and display official portraits for Trump and former first lady Melania Trump....

PHILADELPHIA -- The lesbian founder of a Mt. Airy neighborhood art space filed a complaint with the state commission on human rights earlier this month, alleging that because of homophobia, board members turned two of her drawings away from public view, effectively censoring her work. The complaint, and the controversy the board’s actions have since sparked in one of the city’s most progressive enclaves, echo charged debates across the country over LGBTQ rights and what to do when artwork offends some viewers. In one of the drawings, entitled Kissing in the Summer Sun, two women kiss; in the o......

PHILADELPHIA — AnnaLivia McCarthy slowly strolled a dimly lit gallery at the Barnes Foundation on a recent afternoon, casting her flashlight across the surfaces of masterpieces. As the museum’s senior conservation coordinator, McCarthy was not merely appreciating priceless art — she was hunting pesky prey. Sneaky intruders who hide in shadows and make meals out of masterpieces. Moths, mostly. “Sometimes you can see their eyes under the light,” McCarthy said, raking soft light on Secrets (Confidence) or Inspiration, an exquisite tapestry designed by Pablo Picasso and woven by Atelier Delarbre. ......

An renowned art advisor whose past clients include Leonardo DiCaprio has been accused of a Ponzi scheme, The Daily Beast reports.

Lisa Schiff is accused of failing to pay two clients $1.8 million after she brokered the sale of a painting, according to a lawsuit plaintiffs filed Thursday in New York Superior Court.

Candace Barasch, a real-estate heiress, and Richard Grossman allege that Schiff is “running a Ponzi scheme” after she brokered the sale of Adrian Ghenie’s "The Uncle 3" at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong for $2.5 million without paying them their full shares....