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The Barbie Movie Required so Much Pink Paint That it Caused a Global Scarcity.

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Pratiksha Shome During production, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie needed so much pink paint that the entire global inventory of one firm was depleted. In an interview with Architectural Digest, Gerwig and the movie’s production designer Sarah Greenwood discussed how Barbieland was built, which is nearly entirely bright pink, including the life-size replicas of the doll’s […]

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World Environment Day: Celebrating Land Art and Nature’s Beauty

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Vaishnavi Srivastava June 5th marks World Environment Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and encouraging action for the protection and preservation of our planet. As we reflect on the importance of environmental conservation, it is worth exploring the unique and thought-provoking realm of art and its relationship with nature. In particular, the artistic movement

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Rolling Stones’ Logo out of Kali’s Tongue: The Journey of Tantrism to East and West

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Pratiksha Shome Tantra has questioned religious, cultural, and political norms all throughout the world since its origin to the present. Tantra, a philosophy that first appeared in India about the sixth century, has been connected to numerous revolutionary movements, from its early transformation of Buddhism and Hinduism to the Indian independence movement and the

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Artefacts from Machu Picchu show the Daily life of Women, Men and Children

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Krispin Joseph PX What is the Philosophy of artefacts? The theoretical viewpoint and the intuitive link between artefacts as valuable things and agents’ purposes, beliefs and actions. Where we find the objects and what they tell about the past is a fascinating subject to examine. The most important question is what function they maintained in

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Object Life in the Past: Things That Change Our Perspective

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Krispin Joseph PX Addressing the question of the past stories and events around things is an exciting and essential subject in the art world. This question belongs to the stories and lives of our past generations. Some objects are available here, and we need to understand their social life and history. The biography of a

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Blockbuster Vermeer Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Attended by 650.000 Visitors

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Pratiksha Shome With 650,000 visitors from 113 countries over the course of its 16-week run, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is describing its Vermeer show as “the most successful in its history.” The show was the biggest ever devoted to Vermeer and included 28 of his works. Among those pieces were well-known paintings like The Milkmaid

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27-year Partnership Between the British Museum and BP Ends.

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Pratiksha Shome Environmentalists have hailed the British Museum’s decision to sever its 27-year collaboration with the fossil fuel firm BP as a win. After decades of philanthropic links with organisations like the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this represents BP’s abrupt exit from the British art scene. There are no further contracts or agreements

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Artist Jesse Draxler on His New Solo Show, Which Feeds Off of His Dark and Mysterious Inner World: “It’s the Snake Eating Its Own Tail”

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Pratiksha Shome Jesse Draxler, an artist, has gone all out to set up his most recent exhibition at Naked Eye Studio in Los Angeles. Through June 7, “U&I” features a variety of his works, including painted panels, conceptual sculptures, and digital media, all of which are placed in a setting that the artist himself conceptualised

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Designer Turns Waste, Pipes, and Manhole Covers into Exquisite Furniture

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Tsuktiben Jamir At Ek Kalakaar Design Studio, they explore the imaginative creativity that coexists peacefully with art and design. The studio is committed to avoiding the banal and favouring the creation of classic daily furnishings and settings. It brings creativity to life in a world of possibilities with strikingly original concepts and materials derived from

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