Online art purveyors Rise Art offer affordable works by a variety of artists, that you can either rent or purchase. Also, with every piece sold, Rise Art sends a personal art supply kit to a child in the hospital (sharing supplies is often verboten for fear of spreading diseases). The site’s many filters makes finding a special piece for yourself easy enough, but they also …
Much of what we know about the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh in fact, comes straight from the artist himself. A new book from Yale University Press highlights 265 (from a collection of over 800) of Van Gogh’s written letters, giving the reader not only an autobiography of the troubled artist’s life but also insights into his motivations and values as he regularly pens words …
As the grandfather of Pop Art, Andy Warhol and his legacy are those of appropriation. Already canonical, his images become increasingly powerful the more they are repeated and translated into new mediums. For their latest collaboration, Absolut is celebrating Warhol’s unique ability to merge mass appeal and fine art with the release a limited edition bottle and a global art exchange. Inspired by Warhol’s colorful …