visual-arts

Double-sided page featuring a sketch and text sheds new light on the baroque master and his time living in Rome More than 400 years ago, the up and coming Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens toured the streets of Rome, notebook in hand, sketching images from Renaissance works adorning the city’s churches and palazzos. Now a rare sheet, thought to be from his Roman sketchbook, has gone on display in…

Patricia Gillberg builds mythological worlds one tiny paper fragment at a time. Using thousands of hand-cut layers, the Swedish artist creates intricate collages filled with symbolic creatures, Celtic mythology, folklore, and dreamlike human-animal forms that feel both ancient and strangely alive. Shaped by years spent in Scotland surrounded by musicians, filmmakers, and underground creative comm…

New political actors in established democracies raise key issues regarding the disruptive effects of new technologies on electoral competition, voter mobilization, and the design of political parties and organizations. This study focuses on the emergence of film actor Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), which went to the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (TNA) elections as a single party. …

The room is silent except for the voice of the auctioneer. A bidder raises a paddle. Another joins… The post The 10 Most Expensive Artworks Ever Sold at Auction appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

Every week, a few paintings completely interrupt our scrolling. The ones that make us stop, stare, send screenshots to each other, and keep thinking about them days later. This week’s heart list moves through ancestral portraiture, cosmic self-reflection, childhood melancholy, surreal floral worlds, and one unforgettable dog sitting beside oysters and champagne. These six artists reminded us that…

This week’s latest in the art world, conversations moved between record-breaking auction sales, major institutional shifts, global art… The post The Latest in the Art World: Record Auction Sales, Museum Mergers, and Global Art Fairs appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

‘Living archive’ will mark loss of Northumberland landmark with storytelling, sound and sculpture using saved wood A new artwork will transform preserved wood from the felled Sycamore Gap tree into a “living archive” after a public vote. The community arts charity Helix Arts and George King Architects were named winners of the vote on Saturday, after being shortlisted for a National Trust commiss…

Veronika Leslie creates charcoal drawings so quiet they almost feel like whispers. Working only in black and white, the Singapore-based artist uses hands, gestures, fabric, and subtle expressions to explore emotions that words often fail to explain. Rather than painting traditional portraits, Veronika builds atmospheric figurative works that feel deeply personal yet strangely universal—like memor…

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming cinematography, introducing unprecedented capabilities across the entire filmmaking pipeline. This systematic review synthesizes findings from 76 research papers—with detailed focus on 30 key studies published between 2021 and 2026—to examine how AI technologies are reshaping pre-production, production, and post-production workfl…

Bunting from hospital sheets, drawings on letters from the DWP, an installation made of damp: a new exhibition celebrates art that takes the challenges the artists have faced and turns them into drivers of creativity “I’m having a flare-up’, is a really common phrase that you hear in the ‘crip’ community,” says Mariana Lemos, the co-curator of Flare Up, a group exhibition focused on art powered b…

The TOKAS Residency has officially announced the Research Residency Program 2027, an international opportunity designed for artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners to conduct in-depth research on arts and culture in Tokyo, Japan. This prestigious residency program invites both international and local creators to engage in independent research while being immersed in one of the world’s [……

Most people do not discover famous paintings inside museums. They discover them accidentally. Sometimes through a song playing… The post The Artists & Paintings Behind Some of the Most Famous Songs Ever appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

First major retrospective for the wartime PM’s paintings, shadows of Berlin Dada, hopeful science and the outrageous art of Valie Export – all in your weekly dispatch Winston Churchill: The Painter Britain’s eloquent war leader kept himself sane by puffing on cigars, swilling brandy – and painting the world around him. • The Wallace Collection, London , from 23 May to 29 November Continue reading…

On May 21st, a realistic cave took shape on Paris' Pont Neuf, the oldest standing bridge across the Seine. The inflatable artwork was designed and built by French photographer and street artist JR, along with an extensive multidisciplinary team. La Caverne du Pont Neuf was conceived in honor of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1985 work The Pont Neuf Wrapped , an environmental artwork in which the art…

Victoria Martinez paints handbags, porcelain, shoes, and personal belongings with extraordinary precision but her paintings are never really about objects alone. The Los Angeles-born Chicana artist uses contemporary vanitas painting to explore identity, accumulation, nostalgia, and the emotional weight we attach to the things we keep. After spending decades between cultures, from 1990s LA graffit…

This thesis explores how we practice creativity and construct narratives through the act of building collections. It examines collecting as both an innate creative impulse and a learned process. Using arts-based research and narrative inquiry, the study considers how our collecting habits reflect the ways we process information and express personal artistic interests. Drawing from personal experi…

This thesis explores how young artists develop their creative practices in a world informed by digitality. Through survey research of 44 art students between the ages of 14 and 22, as well as a process of autoethnographic inquiry, I examine how artists in high school and college relate to digital imagery, web archives, online gaming, and social media platforms, and how these experiences inform ar…

Art educator Jo-Anna Moore (1991) asks “What is the purpose of our individual growth through art or craft?” (p. 162). Moore’s question is daunting not least for the seasoned artist, but for the young people in our art classrooms who, to varying degrees, are or are not interested in art. This thesis draws from my personal narrative as an older adolescent whose introduction to craft helped me navig…

For a long time, celebrity art collections were treated like another luxury purchase, something to casually mention alongside… The post 8 Celebrity Art Collections You’ll Want to Peek Inside appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .