Artistic diversity thrives in the heart of Venice
Coinciding with the 58th Venice Biennale in Italy, the Karuizawa New Art Museum (KaNAM) Venice branch is holding an exhibition in a corner of the city’s Piazza San Marco through Nov. 24. While the world’s oldest large-scale art festival sees 89 countries present their ...
Taiwan's balloon 'Tank Man' marks run-up to 30th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown
A Taiwanese artist has created giant inflatables of a tank and "Tank Man" — the lone protester who stood in front of a convoy of tanks on Beijing's Tiananmen Square — to mark 30 years since China's bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. The ...
A sculpture by the American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million — a record price for a living artist — at an auction organized by Christie's in New York. "Rabbit," a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of ...
Miwa Komatsu: An artist's vision of Shinto and its divine beings
'When I was in elementary school, I was taking a nap under a tree in my garden. Then I had a dream, that would later come true, of having an exhibition as a painter and being an artist. That felt very real, and I ...
Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered traumatic nerve damage that left him with a "claw hand," impairing his ability to paint in later life, a new study says. The damage could have been the result of a fainting episode, according to Italian research published in ...
Here are some anecdotes about Leonardo's extraordinary life and work. 'Fake news' on death An 1818 painting by French artist Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres shows Leonardo breathing his last with his patron, France's King Francis I, at his bedside. The scene was inspired by an account in "Lives ...
Experts comb through DNA from purported lock of da Vinci hair for comparison with living descendants
A lock of what some historians think is Leonardo da Vinci's hair went on display Thursday at a museum in his Tuscan birthplace as they seek to prove it contains his DNA 500 years after the genius died. Presenting what he called a "relic" at ...
A 500-year-old sketch of a bearded man was on Thursday revealed to be one of only two surviving portraits of Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci made during his lifetime. The drawing, believed to have been made by an assistant, is part of the Royal Collection ...
The mystery of the 'Salvator Mundi,' the world's most costly painting
Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in France. But the work that in recent months has been the intense focus of scrutiny by the ...
Seibu Railway's train etiquette posters in ukiyo-e style are a hit in Japan and overseas
Posters that use traditional kimono-wearing characters portrayed in the style of Edo Period ukiyo-e to educate train passengers on proper etiquette have gained attention abroad, with the works featured in a British exhibition and printed in Taiwanese textbooks. First introduced in September 2016, the light-hearted ...
Avant-garde artist creates bridges between life and death
With a strong belief that her role is to connect the invisible with the visible world through art, contemporary artist Miwa Komatsu continues to depict otherworldly creatures. People can’t help but be intrigued by the powerful and colorful images of seemingly frightening, yet strangely ...
From Paris watchtower to palace to famed museum: 800 years of history of the Louvre
From a medieval fortress protecting Paris to one of the world's biggest and most-visited museums, the Louvre has been reinvented many times over the centuries. Today it attracts 10 million visitors a year, most of them tourists drawn by star attractions such as the Mona ...
