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How 2D digital art and 3D animation workflows are merging

From concept art to VFX and animation, studios and individual artists alike now merge 2D and 3D art techniques.

Creative Bloq · Nov 30, 2024

Australian printmaker Ruth Faerber has died aged 102. She never stopped making art

In 1974, when a local Sydney newspaper wrote on the success of two local artists, they were introduced using their husband’s names. Ruth Faerber, who has died aged 102, was named as “Mrs Hans (Ruth) Faerber of Castle Cove”.

The Conversation · Nov 30, 2024

Face facts: Statues of stars like Kane and Ronaldo don't always deliver. Sculptors offer advice

One art critic compared the new Harry Kane bronze statue to a bulging-jawed comic strip character

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2024

Intergenerational knowledge reimagined at Triennial

Artists or groups from 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region feature in QAGOMA's 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, opening on Saturday.

AAP · Nov 29, 2024

You are my Kindred Spirit: how growing up black in ‘the quiet racism of Scotland’ shaped the art and politics of Maud Sulter

She was one of the first chroniclers of the modern experience of being black in Scotland. The daughter of a Scottish mother and Ghanaian father growing up in 1960s and 1970s Glasgow, Maud Sulter experienced first-hand the racism of the period. That experience strongly registered in her art, writing, poetry…

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2024

The world gets its first glimpse inside Notre Dame Cathedral after 5 years under wraps

Five years after a catastrophic fire reduced Notre Dame Cathedral to a smoldering shell, the Associated Press entered the Gothic masterpiece for a first glimpse of its fully restored interiors during a visit with French President Emmanuel Macron that was broadcast to the public

The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2024

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday

The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2024

Why the Dungeness landscape is so inspirational for writers and artists

Writers and artists are often inspired by the landscapes they encounter or inhabit, and one of the most distinctive is Dungeness in Kent, on England’s south coast. This headland is punctuated by converted lookout towers, fishermen’s cottages, tanneries and wood-panelled artists’ studios, turquoise crab nets and rusted anchors.

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2024

A Renaissance pooch, pop art hammers and sublime northern landscapes – the week in art

Parmigianino puts an alternative slant on Christmas, Jim Dine displays his tools, and Gabrielle Goliath takes a global view of male violence

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2024

Restored Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris unveiled after 2019 fire

Macron inspects results of 700-million-euro restoration, including 19th-century Gothic spire returned to former glory.

Al Jazeera · Nov 29, 2024