Sasha Skochilenko replaced price tags with news reports about bombings in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol

In a social media post that has since been locked, Skochilenko wrote on 2 March that “peace postcards” left on store shelves are a way of reaching the public. The post and postcards that she created are published on Sever.Realii, a news site of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

“After all, there are still a lot of people who do not know (do not remember?) about what a miracle human life is, how beautiful and precious it is, and that violence is not a solution to problems,” she wrote.

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What do you get the guy who has everything … including the record for most career goals in NHL history? Back in 1994, Wayne Gretzky’s Los Angeles Kings teammates chipped in to commission a painting by the acclaimed artist LeRoy Neiman capturing the moment the Great One broke Gordie Howe’s mark of 801 goals with a tally against the Vancouver Canucks. Wayne Gretzky Record-Breaking Goal #802 “Obviously, it was an honor (to be painted by Neiman),” Gretzky said. “He’s painted so many great athletes over the years and he’s recognized as one of the best in his field. So that…

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Continuing a trend that has been controversial among filmmakers, a new Andy Warhol documentary series, coming to Netflix next month, will resurrect the Pop artist using artificial intelligence. In the show, Warhol can be heard reading from his diaries. That voice, however, is not the artist’s own but rather the product of AI made to sound like him.

Watch trailer here.

Andrew Rossi, who created the series, titled The Andy Warhol Diaries, undertook this unusual measure with the Andy Warhol Foundation’s permission, according to a trailer released by Netflix on Wednesday. The series also portrays the AI-generated narration as something Warhol himself would’ve wanted.

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In a mash of collaborations between art, fashion, and technology, the Selfridges department store in London has partnered with fashion brand Paco Rabanne and Fondation Vasarely to present “Universe,” a physical exhibition and NFT and metaverse venture marking the 25th anniversary of the death of famed Op artist Victor Vasarely.

The collaboration to mount this exhibition comes after Paco Rabanne creative director Julien Dossena used several of Vasarely’s trippy geometric patterns as the basis for the brand’s Spring Summer 2022 collection, which was unveiled last June and is now being released for purchase. Running from January 13 to March 31, the department store will display 55 works by the French-Hungarian artist within its 24 store-front windows and in other spaces throughout the store are decked out in Vasarely’s designs.

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Two of Paris’s most renowned cultural institutions, the Louvre and the Grand Palais, are teaming up to stage an immersive digital light show in Marseilles inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

The exhibition is part of the new Grand Palais immersif initiative, which will bring similar art experiences to venues around the world in a bid to capitalize on the craze for “Immersive Van Gogh” and other animated projections based on famous works from art history.Two of Paris’s most renowned cultural institutions, the Louvre and the Grand Palais, are teaming up to stage an immersive digital light show in Marseilles inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

The exhibition is part of the new Grand Palais immersif initiative, which will bring similar art experiences to venues around the world in a bid to capitalize on the craze for “Immersive Van Gogh” and other animated projections based on famous works from art history.

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A massive Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sold for $40 million at auction including fees Tuesday, ranking among the priciest pieces by the late artist.

The final bid of $37 million fell just below auction estimates, which pegged the painting to sell for between $40 million and $80 million. “The Guilt of Gold Teeth” is one of a handful of works Basquiat produced during a months-long stay in Modena, Italy, considered one of the most pivotal periods of the artist’s career.

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Love is in the Bin was what remained of the artist's piece Girl with Balloon, which sold in 2018 and was then shredded live in the auction room.

It went under the hammer in London on Thursday, selling for 25.4m - vastly over its estimate.

Before opening the bidding, Mr Barker said that the painting became an "unexpected piece of performance art" when it shredded in the same auction room after being sold to a "private European investor" three years ago.

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A painting by the 18th-century French Rococo master Jean-Honoré Fragonard—long considered "insignificant" by its owner—has sold at auction for £6.6m (with fees). Offered by the French auction house Encheres-Champagne in Épernay, Champagne, it made over three times its £1.7m high estimate.

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Takashi Murakami recently took to Instagram to share photos of his signature artworks filling up a room at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. With his creative effort, the artist aims to contribute to the wellbeing and improved experience for patients, service users and staff alike. Murakami’s iconic Flowers and other characters are embellished across the walls, doors and other sections of the room including a CT/PET scanner. The Children’s National Hospital is considered to be one of the top 10 pediatric hospitals in the country, as per U.S. News & World Report. Last year, the hospital treated over 219,000 children from stateside and across the globe.

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Now, thanks to Google’s new AR Art Filter, you can put yourself inside a famous painting with just one tap. Thanks to Google’s collaborations with museums around the world, you can put masterworks into the palm of your hand. Try on an Ancient Egyptian necklace! Wear a Samurai helmet!

The app allows people to find their doppelganger among thousands of famous artworks. And it’s all thanks to institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which own the artworks you can try on.

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Had 2020 gone as planned, on July 25, people all over the world would have tuned in to the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics in Tokyo. Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, fans will have to wait a year for the festivities to begin, but a highly anticipated monument to Olympians past will still open its doors in Colorado Springs this year.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum—housed in a futuristic building constructed by AD100 firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro—will begin to welcome visitors on July 30 (tickets go on sale July 22). The first exhibit will feature over 100 works by LeRoy Neiman, the official painter of the Olympic Games from 1972 to 2010.

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When world-famous artist David Hockney wrote a letter to the Daily Mail saying he believes smoking could protect people against the Coronavirus many scoffed.

Mr Hockney wrote: 'Could it not be that smokers have developed an immune system to this virus? With all these figures coming out, it’s beginning to look like that to me.'

Understandably the claim was brushed off as laughable and 'rubbish' by many.

But is it?

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We are saddened to announce the passing of Betsy Wyeth, who died Tuesday, April 20.

Betsy Wyeth was born on September 26, 1921 and was raised in East Aurora, New York. The daughter of Merle and Elizabeth (Bess) James, she grew up in an art-friendly environment, with her mother interested in the performing arts and her father the rotogravure editor for the Buffalo Courier-Express. It was in July of 1939 that she met the painter Andrew Wyeth and accompanied him to a dance in Rockland, Maine, a few days later, where he asked her to marry him. Though they had known each other for one week, she accepted.

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