Category: visual

” ‘Scanpaths’ were created with eyetracking technology as viewers looked at two versions of John Martin’s The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.”

“One of Banksy’s most famous works has been defaced in what may be the latest episode of a long-running spat with a rival street artist. The image above a shop in Bristol … has now been defaced with black paint.”

Though one gallery owner may show an artist whose work now sells for $25,000 or more and another may show unknown artists whose work still goes largely unnoticed by big-name collectors or established critics, both are part of a new generation of New York gallerists who are slowly transforming the city’s art scene.

“The Vancouver Art Gallery is about to celebrate its 80th birthday, with an operating deficit approaching $1 million.”

White walls and sunlight don’t work for Impressionist paintings, and the Musée D’Orsay’s newly refurbished Impressionist wing makes a good case for a deeply different approach.

“Using the iPad in much the same way as he used to employ a pad of paper, Hockney recently exclaimed in an interview, ‘Van Gogh would have loved it!”

How’d that public sculpture work out in Portland, Maine? Ask Shawn McCarthy. “Oh, God, it was all we could see,” McCarthy said. “In one way it was a conversation piece, but the conversation just was never positive.”

At the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths in France, archaeologists have discovered children’s marks alongside prehistoric paintings – and they claim that the most prolific was a 5-year-old girl.

With Pacific Standard Time bringing more attention to the city, the artist tells KPCC exactly what was important about places like the F Space, where in 1974 Chris Burden took a bullet in the service of art.

Moshe Safdie’s newest building, nestled in the heart of the Ozark forest and funded by a WalMart scion, both nods to its location and aggressively reworks the forest itself.