Art

October 29, 2025

Japanese Artist Celebrates Their Rescue Cat With Endearing Traditional-Style Paintings

Cats have long been artists’ muses, across time and around the world. Their beauty, aloof personalities, and sometimes sassiness are both intriguing and amusing to us. And for the creatively inclined, they beg to be memorialized in art. Japanese artist Poshichi finds familiar inspiration for their paintings: their rescue cat. Working digitally, they combine contemporary media with nihonga, a term for Japanese painting that originated in the 19th century.

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October 27, 2025

Surreal Paintings of Pensive Women Conjure Both Feelings of Tranquility and Unease

Lately, artist Sarah Joncas has been especially fond of the ocean. In the Canadian artist’s most recent canvases, women nestle into fields of sea anemones, slip shells and starfish into their hair, dive deep underwater, and, like monuments, emerge from rippling waves. It should perhaps come as no surprise that these themes dominate her latest solo exhibition, aptly titled Lost at Sea.

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October 24, 2025

Artist Kara Walker Transforms Toppled Confederate Monument Into Haunting Sculpture

In 1921, an equestrian statue of “Stonewall” Jackson was unveiled beside the Albemarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, VA. A century later, in 2021, the Confederate monument was toppled and subsequently deeded to the world-renowned artist Kara Walker. She was tasked with reimagining the 13-foot-tall statue, to transform its original myth into a searing examination of American history. Now, the final product has been unveiled.

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