Art

May 13, 2024

Yoko Ono’s ‘Refugee Boat’ Invites Visitors To Participate and Spreads a Powerful Message of Hope

First conceived in the 1960s, Yoko Ono's Add Colour series invites people to participate in creating a collective piece of art. With Add Colour (Refugee Boat), currently installed at London's Tate Modern, Ono asks us to think about the power of collective action in relation to today's immigration crisis. The current iteration, which is part of the Tate's YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND exhibition, began with a white boat in a white room.

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May 10, 2024

Chalk Artist Transforms City Streets With Charming Interactive Drawings

Street artists have the unique ability to turn the entire world into their canvas. Artist David Zinn‘s work is no different, as he masterfully uses his natural environment to bring his delightful creations to life. Depending on the seasonal conditions around him, Zinn fuses his character-filled chalk drawings with foliage, fallen leaves, and more permanent landscape features, including rocks and sidewalk cracks.

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May 8, 2024

Artist Uses Squeegee To Create Invigorating Paintings Filled With Unexpected Color and Movement

An artist known simply as Sharece has been captivating fans with her unconventional painting process. Equipped with a canvas, acrylic paint, and a squeegee, the artist lets her imagination soar. Stylistically, Sharece focuses on the ways that form, color, and gesture come together to create a certain image. As she carefully employs these artistic elements, the artist's process involves a very intentional application of paint.

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May 4, 2024

Explore Over 3,000 Victorian Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Works

It is commonly said that William Shakespeare‘s works cannot be fully appreciated until they are performed on stage, as the thirty-eight plays by “The Bard” were meant to be seen. Actors trained to convey the pain of Romeo upon finding Juliet in the tomb, the strange humor of the woodland characters who frolic on a Midsummer Night, and the cold cunning of Lady Macbeth.

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