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Williams sisters not just play it right but also have a keen eye for art

Serena Williams is considered as one of the best tennis players in the world and has shown us that with her dedication and focus, we can cultivate our strength to channel it in the right direction. Other than being an iconic sportswoman, Williams also has a fascination for collecting Art. In her palatial Miami home, […]
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Padma Shri Awards for the field of Art

Padma Shri is one of the highest Civilian Honours in the Republic of India. This means, over years and decades, if a person has excelled in his own field be it academics or arts or literature and also helped spread the knowledge in the community of all over the country, they get an honour for […]
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Check out this art market

We have always seen and talked about art in museums or galleries, haven’t we? But I recently heard about this beautiful initiative of artists selling art in a vegetable market! Art should be approachable and bring all stratas of society together. That is the point really… to make and sell affordable art. If you ever […]
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World’s oldest known cave painting found, is more than 45,000 years old!

Can you imagine the world 45,500 years ago? How the land structure must have been. What minerals the soil must have consisted of? What the humans must have looked like? Or even more, did Homo Sapiens even exist during those days!? Recently, Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of […]
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The master of disguise

Last week we talked about how paintings have been stolen from museums, art shows or the artists themselves. Would you like to watch a heist on Netflix? Lupin, a new Netflix show about a thief who steals Marie Antoinette’s prized jewels from the Louvre, is captivating viewers around the world. The story is of the […]
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Where do the stolen paintings go?

We hear stories of museum paintings being stolen. They all seem mysterious and curious, but where do they really go after they’re stolen. Because if you see someone selling them, of course they will be questioned! That’s a dangerous path to tread. However, this is a multi billion dollar a year illicit industry. Everything from […]
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Underwater museum on a shipwreck in Amsterdam

A Dutch architecture firm is building an underwater museum of a 271-year-old shipwreck. Amsterdam seems to have become a great place to create museums of all sorts. Right from the most fascinating Rijks Museum where you can spend hours lost in its glory to the Banksy museum. Amsterdam has it all. They are now planning […]
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Can you find beauty in these ugly pictures?

An artist pretended to be a billionaire to infiltrate New York’s most elite apartments and take ‘ugly pictures of very fancy buildings’. Budapest-based Hungarian artist Andi Schmied, while in New York as part of a Triangle Arts Association residency,  made up a very clever story and some acting skills. Schmied gained access to some of […]
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Banksy’s new mural has a message about Covid

A new mural by Banksy has appeared on the side of a house in the southern UK city of Bristol. The piece shows a woman in a headscarf sneezing, with her dentures flying several feet out of her mouth and a graphic spray of saliva following them. She is doubled over by the force of […]
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What art has to do with NASA? A lot actually

Artist Julia Christensen has partnered with scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has been working with scientists who are trying to send a craft to conduct a reconnaissance fly-by there. It will carry Christensen’s artwork, The Tree of Life, and beam it down to whatever little aliens might be there. The artist, […]