On August 14, Yayoi Kusama, the most commercially successful artist of our time, died in Tokyo. She was 97. In the 1950s, Kusama moved from postwar Japan to New York, then the world's art capital, and became a counterculture artist. She achieved international recognition much later, in the 1990s. Critic Anton Khitrov explains…

In March 2018, an artist from the Belarusian Brest Alexandra Klavdieva painted a portrait of Keanu Reeves. She signed it with the words: “I think there is no need for any words. Just a great man and actor. " On November 17, the artist posted a photo of Reeves with a phone showing his portrait. Today I ...

Artist Irina Romanovskaya fulfilled a long-standing idea and painted portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The St. Petersburg resident chose, it must be said, an unusual technique for painting her paintings: the girl applied paint to the paper with her chest and body. “The process is very labor-intensive and slow...

New York artist Faith Holland, whose solo exhibition "Technophilia" opened at Brooklyn's TRANSFER gallery, showed paintings inspired by orgasms and porn films. “This is a direct continuation of my previous series of works “Visual Orgasms”, which depicted sex using the visual language of Hollywood cinema from the times...