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Extremely rare “White Auroras” have been spotted over Norway—and the sky put on a show few people ever get to witness.
Photographers out chasing the northern lights expected the usual waves of green and purple. Instead, they were stunned by something far rarer: ghostly white auroras stretching across the sky.
Soft. Pale. Almost glowing.
It’s one of the rarest aurora displays on Earth.
Scientists explain that white auroras occur when multiple aurora colors strike the human eye at once, blending together until they appear nearly colorless. With so many wavelengths firing simultaneously, the brain can no longer separate them—so it perceives white.
Most aurora hunters spend their entire lives without ever seeing it. This time, Norway delivered the extraordinary.
Cameras across the Arctic captured the eerie light spilling through the darkness like frozen lightning, leaving even experienced skywatchers in awe.
Some described it as otherworldly. Others said it looked like the sky itself was glowing from within.
And for a few unforgettable moments, the heavens above Norway became something almost impossible to believe.
Georg Baselitz: Eroi d'Oro / Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia https://t.co/l3NSg7MYu3 The exhibition Georg Baselitz. Eroi d’Oro, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Institute of Art History at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, presents the German artist’s latest series of large-scale paintings. The works feature flat golden backgrounds that provide no sense of spatial depth. This two-dimensional quality echoes the style of medieval icons and the gilded surfaces often used by the Northern Renaissance painter Stefan Lochner. Baselitz’s figures, outlined in sharp, linear strokes reminiscent of drawing, appear to float on these golden planes. The paintings include oversized self-portraits as well as many images of his wife Elke, who has long served as his companion and frequent model. The portraits are rendered with diluted black paint that evokes ink, recalling the style of Hokusai’s portraits and traditional Japanese calligraphy. In several canvases, thick, textured brushstrokes in multiple colours are applied over the figures, creating a marbled, varied surface effect.Although gold has appeared in various forms throughout Baselitz’s career, these paintings show a closer visual connection to the tradition of icon painting than his previous work.
La Galería #HilarioGalguera se suma, desde mañana, a @artbrussels, en su sección Prime,
Exhibirá trabajos de Willem Boel, Maxime Brigou, Peter Buggenhout, Stijn Cole, Marie Cloquet, Javier Marín y Gabriel O’Shea.
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From the Swiss Alps to Alien: Journey into the Biomechanical World of the Giger Museum in Gruyères #Artmarket#Artprice#ArtpriceNews https://t.co/SyCdgggkJa
La Bienal Ciudad y Ciencia 2025 recala en @cbamadrid y llega de la mano de la escultora @mar_solis_arte.
La artista, representada por @GaleriaFreijo, presenta "Origen. El círculo en transformación": https://t.co/drNZ1AUxS0
An exhibition of new and recent sculptures and paintings by Jeff Koons, titled "Porcelain Series," is now on view at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York! This is the first dedicated exhibition of the artist’s "Porcelain" series: https://t.co/tTvXgnK0O6
#ArtnetNews: A rare assembly of drawings created by David Hockney on iPad is heading to auction at Sotheby’s London. It’s the largest group of the painter’s iPad works to ever come to market and the pieces, which will be sold individually, are each priced between £80,000 and £180,000 ($108,000–$243,000). The overall collection has been given a low estimate of £1.7 million ($2.3 million). Including seventeen drawings put up for auction by a single collector; they’re hitting the block on October 17 during Frieze Week.
Hockney, now 88, continues to make iPad drawings and his more than 100 depictions of his adopted home of Normandy will feature in an exhibition next year at London’s Serpentine gallery.
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Article by Richard Whiddington
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Pictured:Lot 109 from “The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate” (2011). Photo: courtesy Sotheby’s.
Lot 107 from “The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate” (2011). Photo: courtesy Sotheby’s.
Lot 106 from "The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate" (2011). Photo: courtesy Sotheby's.