painting

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Though he went on to craft a career in the public eye as a musician, comedian and actor, painting remained his “true vocation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

He painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, which still hangs in St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, and is the only painting Caravaggio ever signed.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

In the most commanding painting of this section, Jeong Seon’s “Clearing After Rain on Mt. Inwang” from 1751, roiling clusters of dark hills are split by hidden ravines and jutting waterfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

A large painting sits over the head of the table above the fireplace, of a bearded man dressed in a black robe.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer