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Featuring the best of the art world through thought-provoking articles. Modern art, galleries, museums, emerging artists, projects, take your pick at Cultura Colectiva.
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Queen Victoria was famous for her strict morals and serious countenance. However, behind that severity, Queen Victoria was a hopeless romantic who would change romance and relationships for centuries to come.
Amongst the thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis, there are some masterpieces it’s a shame we won’t be able to see again.
With the rise of filmmakers as Alfonso Cuarón and photographers as Emmanuel Lubezki making the headlines, many theater producers are getting more and more interested in these Latino names popping in the marquees around the country.
The print collective Instituto Gráfico de Chicago was born out of a desire to highlight how latinx printmakers are making relevant art and how the influence of names like José Guadalupe Posada and Taller de Gráfica Popular still play an important role in their projects.
Novelist Moshin Hamid once wrote: "Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” If I was placed here to simply help “the cause” in any way, shape, or form, it would be to give a dose of empathy with each portrait I take.
Illustrator Marco Melgrati's art will make you look at everyday things in a new light. He takes common landscapes and scenarios and gives them a twist. Read here for some of his thoughts and his creative process.
This week, the small city of Port Talbot, Wales, woke up to discover they had a contemporary artwork by the controversial anonymous artist Banksy.
Frida Kahlo didn’t paint many artworks. She did around 250 paintings in small and medium format and some of them are in US museums.
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Jake Prendez, a Chicanx artist form Seattle, grew up being told he didn't matter, that because he was interested in art related to cholo and gang culture, he was never going to matter. But he turned that around and now he inspires countless kids with his art.
This is the story of a day at a museum told in RuPaul's Drag Race gifs... that's all you need to know.
Victor Rodriguez is a self-taught Mexican painter who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and whose work is usually called "hyperrealist," a label he rejects completely.
A would-be heist to steal a Pieter Bruegel painting in a Northern Italy church was going completely right. Until it went completely wrong.
Art is said to represent our highest ambitions and our lowest cravings. It also represents those moments in life when we let go of everything else and live in the moment. Here we have chosen the 5 most awesome parties ever shown in a work of art and we wish we had been there.
Novelist Moshin Hamid once wrote: "Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” If I was placed here to simply help “the cause” in any way, shape, or form, it would be to give a dose of empathy with each portrait I take.
Levi Ponce is a 32-year-old artist who's reclaiming public space in Pacoima, Los Angeles. As the son of a sign painter, he grew up seeing his father's work shape and give identity to the streets of his neighborhood.
Kehinde Wiley has made history as he rose from a modest artist to a superstar in the art world, becoming the first African-American painter to be commissioned an official presidential portrait in 2018.