• It’s “Suffocating”: Louvre Museum Staff Stage Walkout to Protest Overwhelming Visitor Numbers
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    It’s “Suffocating”: Louvre Museum Staff Stage Walkout to Protest Overwhelming Visitor Numbers

    On Monday early this week, Louvre staff staged a walkout to protest what has been described as the increasingly unmanageable working conditions at the museum. Hundreds of tourists were left waiting in the rain when the museum failed to open Monday morning. Since 2009, museum attendance has increased by 20% while staff numbers have dropped from 2,161 to 2,005. Last…

  • My Hometown: Bernard Simunovic
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    My Hometown: Bernard Simunovic

    One of SINGULART’s most popular artists is Croatian born Bernard Simunovic. Now living in Germany, Simunovic’s paintings, influenced by his background in design, have gained acclaim thanks to their visually striking yet self-contained style. Across his oeuvres, his forms stand clear and simple as individual elements, but interweave with each other to achieve a more complex overall aesthetic. We talked…

  • See Mona Lisa speak with Samsung’s new AI
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    See Mona Lisa speak with Samsung’s new AI

    This week, Samsung’s research center in Moscow, Russia announced that they have successfully developed a new AI that can create movable avatars of photos and paintings using a single photo. While creating AI avatars by sourcing images is not new, this is the first time that a relatively clear avatar has been created using very few reference images. Typically, creating…

  • A Day With Orlanda Broom
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    A Day With Orlanda Broom

    Orlanda Broom’s work continues to gain notoriety with her popular series of lush, large landscape and abstract works. We recently caught up with the bestselling-Brit to learn about her countryside studio, her never-ending collection of brushes, and her artistic process from first draft to the final product. Good morning, Orlanda! What’s the first thing you do when you wake up…

  • A Day With Virginia Bradley
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    A Day With Virginia Bradley

    Virginia Bradley is an established American artist who has received numerous accolades over her more than 30 year long career. We caught up with Virginia to hear about how this artist spends a typical day living in the rustic beauty of the Massachusetts Berkshires. From mornings spent over coffee and poetry with her husband to her custom-built studio, Bradley takes…

  • Reparations, Colonization, and the Return of ‘Stolen’ Art to Africa
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    Reparations, Colonization, and the Return of ‘Stolen’ Art to Africa

    “When we reflect on the question of cultural heritage objects, we must understand that it’s not simply objects that were taken, but reserves of energy, creative resources, reservoirs of potentials…and this loss is incommensurable”. -The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage On a mild day in November of 2017, the newly-elected French president Emmanuel Macron strode into the main amphitheater of…

  • A Look Back on the Prestigious Career of I.M. Pei
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    A Look Back on the Prestigious Career of I.M. Pei

    I.M. Pei, the renowned architect behind landmarks such as the Louvre Pyramid and Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower, passed away Wednesday night in New York at the age of 102. A highly ambitious and adventurous visionary, Pei was known for blending inspiration from East and West and contrasting classic designs with modern twists. In celebration of his life’s work,…

  • My Hometown: Dodo Newman
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    My Hometown: Dodo Newman

    The basis of my life and path towards art became the understanding that we are actually all one.

  • A Painting of Haystacks by Monet Just Sold for 0.7 Million
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    A Painting of Haystacks by Monet Just Sold for $110.7 Million

    In an auction at Sotheby’s New York on Tuesday that lasted a total of eight minutes, a Monet painting became the highest grossing Impressionist work ever, sold at a stunning $110.7 million USD. The painting is one of 25 pieces from Monet’s ‘Meules’ series completed in Giverny during the winter months of 1890 and 1891. The remaining paintings from the…

  • A Day With: Kristin Kossi
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    A Day With: Kristin Kossi

    Kristin Kossi is a up and coming artist from Germany whose energetic pop artworks have place her on the path to success.