Creative Living Arts

07/31/2025

Countless travel blogs and guides are centered around culinary exploration; when it comes to travel, food takes center stage. Yet, architecture offers an equally, if not more, compelling reason to travel.

07/31/2025

07/31/2025

Visit asba-art.org to learn more about Demystifying the Colored Pencil Toolbox with Crystal Shin

07/31/2025

07/31/2025

Art can make an impact in the most surprising of places. You wouldn’t expect to find a radical artist intervention at The Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in May—a major fixture of London’s summer social season where any thought of art usually revolves around a tasteful water feature or an artfully placed rock. But this year contemporary art found a prime spot on the Flower Show’s main avenue, where the maverick artist-activist Bob and Roberta Smith set up a temporary HQ for his ongoing campaign for art in education.

The Royal Academician’s zeal for educational reform has drawn considerable attention over the years. In 2015, for example, he stood as a parliamentary candidate in the UK general election in an attempt to unseat the former education secretary Michael Gove, which raised the cause’s profile (though he drew only 273 votes).

At the Chelsea show, Bob and Roberta was conspicuously armed with a plethora of his trademark painted placards embellished with such slogans as “ALL SCHOOLS SHOULD BE ART SCHOOLS”; “ART MAKES PEOPLE POWERFUL” and—appropriately—“GARDENS ARE THE NEW ART GALLERIES”. Using these visual aids, he held court in an artist studio bothy set within undulating dune-like landscape designed by the prizewinning sustainable designer Nigel Dunnett. “All schools should have art spaces and this shed with its big window is a window on the world,” Bob and Roberta tells me, adding “What I represent is the imagination: arts in schools provides kids with imaginations for looking out upon the world.”

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/29/could-gardens-become-the-new-galleries-bob-and-roberta-smith-is-showing-their-blooming-potential

07/31/2025

Artsy consulted with art advisors, gallerists, and collectors to uncover the factors that define a great first art purchase, offering insights for new buyers.

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In a new show in Shanghai, a new generation of Chinese artists are redefining the traditions of painting.

12/15/2024

Galleries reported a strong depth of sales at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, which closed on Sunday.

12/15/2024

The Met’s new five-story wing dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century art is scheduled to open by 2030.