At 29 years old in the spring of 2011, Britney Spears had sold millions of albums, released five No. 1 hits, completed multiple world tours, bore two children, and endured intense media scrutiny of her darkest moments. But on the set of her video for top-ten hit “Till the World Ends,” she wasn’t allowed to…
I did a double-take when I saw this image (below) of a bronze statue that the museum-raiding Manhattan District Attorney’s office is attempting to wrest from a museum far outside its home territory—the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA): Draped Male Figure, c. 150 BCE–200 CERoman or possibly Greek HellenisticBronze, hollow cast in several pieces and…
She developed a varied but recognizable style in multiple mediums, characterized by the raw, mordant humor of a woman under no illusions. Source link
The familiar and the fantastic collide vibrantly in the work of Fidel García. The painter fuses the visceral and the ethereal, juxtaposing the human body, photorealistically rendered, with colorful abstract expressionist forms. Sometimes, his nude figures—usually women, at times winged—melt from bold washes of color. Other times, they seem to square off against them in…
Snap, owner of the video messaging app Snapchat, has partnered with the Louvre on a free program called Egypt Augmented, which will give users an interactive deep dive into the museum’s renowned Egyptian treasures using augmented reality (A.R.). The experience, designed by Snap’s own A.R. Studio, leverages the technology to bring iconic works like the…