Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state

Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state

SHENZHEN, China — In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils. In another, a masked officer and medical workers stand guard in front of an apartment cordoned off with ropes and seals reading “CLOSED,” as residents look on with … Read more

Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state

Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state

SHENZHEN, China — In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils. In another, a masked officer and medical workers stand guard in front of an apartment cordoned off with ropes and seals reading “CLOSED,” as residents look on with … Read more

108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever

108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever

Hirox, a leading provider of 3D digital microscope technology, has painstakingly created the world’s largest 3D scan, a super-detailed 108-gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting, “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” The new 108-billion-pixel scan builds upon a previous Hirox project where the same team created a 10-billion-pixel scan of the same Vermeer masterpiece. However, … Read more

Climate activists smash glass protecting Velazquez’s Venus painting in London’s National Gallery

Climate activists smash glass protecting Velazquez’s Venus painting in London’s National Gallery

LONDON — Two climate change protesters were arrested Monday after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery, police said Monday. The two activists from the group Just Stop Oil targeted Velázquez’s “The Toilet of Venus,” also known as “The Rokeby Venus,” with small hammers. Photos … Read more

Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple

Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple

PHOENIX — If things had gone as originally planned, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum would be launching its fall exhibition Friday. But officials postponed the show six weeks before the opening over concern that a painting by activist-artist Shepard Fairey could be seen as “disparaging toward some City of Mesa employees.” Now, the Phoenix suburb is … Read more