First you scrub your brushes then you scrub your brushes. Art holds value differently to everyone because beautiful is defined through the eyes of the beholder. Money laundering is a serious issue and art has been know to be used to keep transactions hidden and manipulated. Every year billions of
Year: 2023
If you take a drive downtown, or maybe under a bridge, or if you really stay on the lookout while out anywhere, you’ll probably notice graffiti. Lots of this graffiti doesn’t look too nice, and is often done by a couple of mischievous teens or even by members of a
A worldwide phenomenon in today’s day and age are younger children and adolescents addicted to smart devices. This can range from smartphones, high-tech video games, Ipads, apple watches, etc. But it boils down to the question, do we really know who is behind the screens playing with these kids? My
The image above was initially taken by Charles Moore who was involved in taking historic images of the Civil Rights Movement. Andy Warhol, who was an American artist and filmmaker, saw an image in a magazine and changed it by flipping and cropping it as well as adding color, claiming
Education is the building block to anyone’s success and it is being threatened. Conversations have been limited and the idea of free speech is becoming a lesson in the history books. Limiting a student’s exposure to different opinions and experiences robs them from diversity and learning how to make decisions
Tik Tok has caused a lot of controversy over the last couple of months, to the point where some states are even considering banning the app and are proposing new laws and regulations in order to prohibit people from using it. Tik Tok is a popular app which people use
On November 18,2022, Graffiti Artist Banksy invited his fans to go “help themselves” to the clothing from Guess on Regent Street After the Store used his artwork without permission. “Please go to GUESS on Regent Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for
In this day and age, it seems that the line of when a child is supposed to stop acting like a child keeps getting lower and lower. Speaking with family members and just looking at the media across the decades, it is very apparent that society is moving away from
Most artistic works, like paintings, are hard to steal and sell. First, most of them bear the artists’ names engraved in the art. Secondly, most famous art and paintings are always priceless and cannot fetch actual prices for the thieves who prefer selling them on the black market since most
Aren’t we all anti-colonial? Apparently we aren’t all. Without a doubt colonialism has had a huge impact on history around the world. Affecting customs, norms, values, and beliefs of different cultures and communities; some argue that all impact was negative. However, it seems that a new notion of anti anti-colonialism