10-Minute Challenge: A Vase of Flowers

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art.
The New York Times

Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?

Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait. By Amanda Fortini IN EARLY 2021, Jordan Casteel, the painter known for her tender, exquisitely ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why Hundreds of Taylor Swift Fans Are Flocking to See This 100-Year-Old Painting at a Museum in Germany

Painted around 1900, Friedrich Heyser's "Ophelia" may have been an inspiration for a popular song on the singer's latest ...
Vogue

Shara Hughes's Ugly Gorgeous Flower Paintings

Where would Van Gogh be without sunflowers? Monet without water lilies? Or O’Keeffe without her close-ups of black irises, whose voluptuous contours reminded some people (to Georgia’s great annoyance!
Artnet

Who Was the Marquise de Grollier? A Work by the 18th-Century Woman Once Called ‘the Raphael of Flower Painting’ Just Entered the Met’s Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently acquired a rare painting by one of France’s most celebrated—though largely forgotten—female painters. The oil on canvas still-life by Charlotte ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a Van Gogh Painting, the Flowers Are Changing Color

Photo of the painting “Flowers in a blue vase” by Vincent van Gogh. The discoloration is located on the right side of the bouquet. Image courtesy of Kröller-Müller Museum Since Vincent van Gogh ...
Anadolu Ajansi

Just Stop Oil activists throw paint over flower garden in London

Just Stop Oil protesters on Thursday threw orange paint over Chelsea Flower Garden in London in a bid to raise awareness on climate change and use of fossil fuels. In yet another protest to raise ...