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Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to help fund US public broadcasting

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to help fund US public broadcasting

Paintings by celebrated art tutor Bob Ross will be auctioned to help support public television stations that have faced funding cuts under the Trump administration. About 30 of his artworks, which he mostly created on-air during his TV show, the Joy of Painting, in the 80s and 90s, will be auctioned by Bonhams from November. Bob Ross Inc said the …

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Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. Ross, a public television stalwart in the 1980s and ’90s, “dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone,” said Joan Kowalski, …

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Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. Ross, a public television stalwart in the 1980s and ’90s, “dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone,” …

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Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’ – The New York Times

Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’  The New York Times 6 Unforgettable Works in Kerry James Marshall’s Major London Show  Artsy Kerry James Marshall’s Royal Academy Exhibition Features New Paintings  ARTnews.com ‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers  The Guardian The Depth of Memory in Kerry James Marshall’s Painting  Frieze Source link

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This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings

This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings

Paralvinella hessleri accumulates microscopic particles of arsenic on its outer skin, which reacts with sulfide to form a microscopic armour of yellow orpiment.Credit: Wang et al./PLoS Biol (CC BY 4.0) A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth …

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16,000-Year-Old Paintings In French Pyrenees Suggest Prehistoric Humans Risked Their Lives To Enter “Shaman Training Cave”

16,000-Year-Old Paintings In French Pyrenees Suggest Prehistoric Humans Risked Their Lives To Enter “Shaman Training Cave”

Prehistoric paintings found deep inside a perilously inaccessible cave in the French Pyrenees reveal how ancient hunter-gatherers risked their necks to conduct ritual activities in the bowels of the Earth. Known as Etxeberri Cave, the site is considered one of the most challenging caverns to have been explored by Palaeolithic humans, and may have been decorated as part of a …

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