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Art on fashion, music, psychology, wellness and more! Check out these five amazing artists in this week’s Insta 5!

@th.mansi Mansi Thakkar is an independent illustrator and designer based in Bengaluru. She creates imagery inspired by nature, spirituality and beauty. On her Insta page, she puts up giclee prints with drawing printed on high quality archival paper, using rich archival pigments. Her work tends to focus on inner wellbeing. @tripathisiddhartha Siddhartha calls himself a

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Art pop-up exhibit to run in Brookhaven, The Vancouver Art Gallery to receive a fund of $29.3m, German Museums to Return Objects to Namibia, Cameroon

We are happy to curate trending stories for you from the many fascinating developments across the globe. Here’s the latest from the art world that you should not miss! The Vancouver Art Gallery to receive a fund of $29.3m from the Federal Government The Vancouver Art Gallery is going to receive $25 million in federal

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The first major sports artist of the world died on this day

JUNE 20, ON THIS DAY Best known for his brilliantly coloured, expressionist paintings and illustrations that presented scenes of sports and entertainment, LeRoy Neiman passed away on this day, 20 June 2012. He worked both as an illustrator and as an artist whose paintings, prints, and drawings were shown in galleries and reproduced in numerous publications.

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Bill Gates’ open dislike for NFTs, the Smithsonian to return Nigerian artifacts, and more art news

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE Bill Gates Slams NFTs Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has made no bones about his dislike for NFTS. During a TechCrunch talk on Tuesday, Gates said that NFTs are “100 percent based on greater fool theory.” “It has at its heart this anonymity through

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Abramović to release her first NFT, Koons sculpture to be auctioned for charity, and more art news!

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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Remembering Gustave Courbet, the fore-runner of the Realism Movement, on his birthday

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, a painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting was born on this day, June 10, 1819. His works were to later influence the Impressionists and the Cubists. Born in a family that strongly held anti-monarchical sentiments, he grew up to be a politically active individual, and this attitude

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