PENRIDER, born in Madrid in 1980, is a self-taught artist who began drawing at thirty. Specializing in pencil, he creates blurred, surreal atmospheres exploring dreams, loneliness, nature, animals, and space, inviting open-ended narratives.

Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino - Soul at Death (1620)

Keith Haring's monumental mural in Amsterdam remains a powerful marker of his presence in the public realm. Measuring 12 metres in height, this white line mural is Haring's largest work in Europe, instantly recognizable for its clarity, scale, and enduring visual language.

Loving the peaceful, yin-yang energy of these two cats flowing together. Hakuaki really captures a sense of balance and movement in this amazing sculpture. #beautifulbizarre #sculpture #yinyang #catart #art

Which one is real?

Amelie Satzger | Photographer

Timoclea of Thebes throwing the man who raped her down a well. She next hurled in heavy stones until he was dead. Painted in 1659 by Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna. Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker.

Käthe Butcher

Via António Belchior #art #photography

Cristina Córdova Sculpture

Stunning porcelain creations by Ursula Commandeur. uc-keramik.de “Born in 1958 and graduated 2000 as product designer, Ursula Commandeur's creative work was largely influenced by the 1970s. uc-keramik.de #art

von Lenkiewicz is not satisfied with "beautiful art". He's like a reflection in the mirror. His women are torn between precise aesthetics and bold wild emotions that would not shame the artists of German Expressionism. #WolfeVonLenkiewicz #art #ArtAndSociety #WomenInArt

An ancient mummified partial arm and gold ring that belonged to a Roman or Byzantine person. . This is on display in the Tarsus Museum in Tarsus, Turkey. #ancientrome #archaeology #mummy #history #turkey #gold #oro #roman #arqueologia #spqr #ancient #türkei #türkiye #anatolia #arkeoloji

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In the 1500s, raw materials could determine the value of a work of art as much as craftsmanship. Rock crystal’s exceptional hardness allowed artists to carve it without shattering. 🐦 Bird, ca. 1580, with later renovation. German, Nuremberg. Rock crystal, with gilded silver and rubies.

“The transformation of the Thai art scene will be one of the biggest art stories of 2026,” Harper Levine, founder of his eponymous gallery, told ARTnews.⁠ Read about the scene’s seismic shift—and the questions that remain about its long-term sustainability: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

🧵 This bright image features the central region of the Omega Centauri globular cluster, where a research team, using more than 500 images from Hubble, found evidence of a rare intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidate. Why do researchers think so? ➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... 🔭 🧪 1/7

PDX friends: this is the last weekend to catch "Bodies in Blotter" at Carnation Contemporary. The gallery will be open Saturday & Sunday from 12 to 5 pm. Best to 👀 this new lenticular print in person. "Haywire (Fried Motherboards)" 3D lenticular print 27" x 36" edition of 3 + 1 AP

Elihu Vedder, “The Questioner of the Sphinx,” 1863, oil on canvas, 36.2 x 42.1 inches, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Aleksandra Waliszewska

Art I think about. No. 46 Vincent Desiderio. An Allegory of Painting. 2003

Missouri based but originally from Ukraine. Larysa Bernhardt breathes life into the delicate art of embroidery, creating vibrant, textured moth sculptures. Larysa humorously claims she was “born with a needle in one hand and scissors in the other,” #art www.instagram.com/by_larysa_be...

⁣Takashi Murakami⁣ End of Line⁣ 2011⁣⁣" “Takashi Murakami is one of the most visible and important Japanese artists working today. Murakami's influence on Japan is known for disseminating and promoting pop art strategies in ways unforeseen by American critics and artists.

A gold frog figurine from Chichén Itzá, adorned with turquoise eyes. In ancient Mesoamerican society, frogs were associated with deities and the underworld. This small yet meaningful piece serves as a striking representation of the ancient civilization's beliefs and artistic craftsmanship.

Incredible stone arrangement art by Jon Foreman

Cat-shaped vessel from Peru (c. 200–700 CE): crafted as a wild cat—possibly a jaguar, puma, or pampas cat—with a bird perched on its head.

Celebrating the Art of Laurits Andersen Ring 1854. #art

A glorious starfish... Designed by Juliette Moutard for René Boivin in the 1930s. Adorned with 71 Burmese rubies and 241 amethysts, the brooch features five tentacles, two of which fold inwards. Each tentacle is linked by 28 movable hinges to simulate the natural movement of a real starfish. #art

A new year and a bit of advice from the porkchop express. Have you paid your dues? youtu.be/ymC3lK_PM8w?...

Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won, here's to America's colors, the colors are never run.

If you’re looking for me tonight, I’ll be drunk in the corner of the room with my goose hat… Created by Sforzino Sforza, 1949.

Yayoi Kusama The Passing Winter Sculpture" ©️ 2005 Mirror and glass The Passing Winter 2005 is a sculpture consisting of a cube positioned on two thick panes of glass, arranged to form an x-shaped pedestal. #art

Since taking over as chief executive of NPR last year, Katherine Maher has confronted one crisis after another. The organization has managed to hold on to its influence over public broadcasting, even as Congress stripped more than $500 million in annual funding from public media. nyti.ms/4qrU56n

"Gagosian Quarterly." Next up is a piece in which Harry Thorne writes on Kathleen Ryan’s artistic process, methods of assemblage, and how her studio resembles an excavation site: on.gagosian.com/3YI0RJm __________ Kathleen Ryan, "Hanging Fruit," 2018 © Kathleen Ryan. Photo: Tor Simen Ulstein

Take a moment to support art comedy and making facist really angry. Visit the below and enjoy. #art #fucktrump www.trumpkennedycenter.org

202570 X 50 CMED. /33 Ō-ŌBAN (大大判) 42 X 30 CMED. /88 PIGMENT INKS ON JAPANESE KOZO PAPER SHIPPING FROM 30TH OCTOBER For the last six months, Magnus Gjoen has immersed himself in the world of Ukiyo-e - the vivid woodblock prints that flourished during Japan’s Edo period, celebrating life’...

The Crowning Chair in Westminster Abbey, London. Every English King or Queen has been crowned in this chair since 1308

David Hammons carried out an street performance where he sold snowballs of varying sizes. Titled "Bliz-aard Ball Sale", the action was temporary and largely undocumented, known for years through scattered eyewitness accounts and a set of photographs taken by his friend Dawoud Bey. 📸: @dawoudbey

Boxwood tonkotsu (tobacco box) with netsuke and ojime

Sean Norvet’s brood of paintings mark a bold path for his art practice. The painter has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons into goofy–gruesome critiques consumer culture or social media habits or other twenty-first-century concerns. #art

During the mid-20th century, automobile factories unintentionally created a material that would later be prized as an accidental gemstone. Layers of enamel paint overspray built up on factory machinery, repeatedly hardened in curing ovens, and eventually formed what is now known as **fordite**

Voyager 1&2 The Golden Records aboard the two Voyager probes, containing sounds and images of Earth, are designed to last for a billion years in the vacuum of space. If an advanced civilization ever finds them, they might hear our voices, our music, and our story—long after we’re gone.

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Charlie Duke, the youngest person ever to walk on the lunar surface—stands face to face with Apollo 16’s Command Module Casper. the same spacecraft that once orbited the Moon now preserved on Earth, with one of its pilots looking on. For Duke, it’s a time capsule of courage, and exploration.

Happy birthday to Joseph Cornell (1903–1972)! 🎉 Born on this day in Nyack, New York, Cornell is best known for his groundbreaking assemblage work. Image credit: Joseph Cornell, "Untitled (Aviary with Yellow Birds)," c. 1948. Photo by Cathy Carver. #art