Interviews & Essays

Art Encounter, a father-son art gallery based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been tasked with the sale of a bronze cast of Leonardo Di Vinci’s last known surviving beeswax sculpture. The 10-inch by 9-inch piece, entitled Horse and Rider, is thought to be a maquette of a full-scale bronze statue dedicated to Di Vinci’s friend and patron, Charles d’Amboise, completed in 1508. 

Both consciously and subconsciously, we associate specific meanings with different colors. In Western culture, black is synonymous with death, relaying our sorrows through the darkened hues of funeral processions, while white has been selected as the honorary color for brides to be gowned on their wedding day. In turn, whether realized or not, these color associations translate to an emotional response. 

The sky and the universe, with its stars and planets, held a primal spot in ancient Egyptian ontologies with the gods and goddesses of this domain featured prominently in both written myth and visual culture. According to ancient Egyptian myth, the sky and all it contained was one of the first things to be created. 

Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a photographer based in Los Angeles. He takes photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, communicating with the vast history of figurative photography and portraiture.

British artist and director Steve McQueen has decided to skip the 32nd iteration of Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival following a contentious article written by the festival’s founder and CEO, Marek Żydowicz.

The Dutch MPV Gallery, located in the southern town of Oisterwijk, was the target of a semi-botched heist last Friday, November 1st, when CCTV caught thieves storming in at around three in the morning.Using explosives to bypass the gallery's front entrance, which resulted in the door handle being thrown about 160 feet, the perpetrators hastily left with four silkscreens from Andy Warhol’s 1985 series “Reigning Queens.” 

There has always been great discourse over the worth and impact that the arts have had on the American public education system. Under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the arts are recognized as a core academic subject. Despite this, it has taken a lot of work to pave this path and it still isn’t all that well implemented. 

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is an art residency and studio program on 39th Street in Manhattan, just two blocks shy of the Port Authority bus station and New York Times headquarters. In their unassuming building, artists were invited to open their studios to the public, celebrating 25 years of Open Studios and sharing their inner worlds with anyone who happens to be curious. 

At the Louvre Museum in Paris, amongst the various works of art, is a painting with a tragic, yet captivating, story behind it. The Raft of Medusa was painted in 1819 by Théodore Géricault, an ambitious artist eager to achieve fame and glory.

If you ever find yourself driving coast to coast across the United States, you’ll likely spend a good few hours cutting along the vast cornfields and flat farmlands of the midwest. While waiting for the horizon to never get any closer, a splice of color— a multi-colored wooden square cresting a barn, to be exact— suddenly breaks through the golden browns and dusty greens of the crops.