Gokce Dyson
Based in Canterbury, Gokce holds a bachelor's degree in History and Archaeological Studies and a master's degree in Museum and Gallery Studies. She firmly believes that art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. If Gokce is not tucked into a cosy corner with a medieval history book, she can be found spending her evenings doing jigsaw puzzles.
August Macke: Short and Colorful Life of a Promising Artist
August Macke was only 27 years old when he died at Champagne on September 26, 1914. He was one of the many who fell fighting for their country during ...
Gokce Dyson 1 January 1970
Paintings at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Exhibition review of "Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting" at the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian
Jennifer S. Musawwir 11 October 2021
Women Artists of Venice: A New Initiative in Research and Conservation
Soon, the historical female artists of Venice will finally get their due! A new initiative, Women Artists of Venice, aims to restore artworks by at ...
Alexandra Kiely 8 October 2021
The Ultimate Question: Why Should You Learn About Art?
Art creates emotions and, generally, you either like a certain piece of art or you don’t. But despite that, what is valid for everything else is ...
Petra Dragasevic 1 October 2021
The Complicated History of Norse Mythology in Art
Literally speaking, mythology is an old-school kind of storytelling. “Mythos” is a Greek word for “story” while “logia” has the ...
Lana Pajdas 30 September 2021
Her Life and Her Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner
The story of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and its founder before the robbery in 1990.
Jennifer S. Musawwir 9 September 2021
(Sur)reality in the Photography of Kati Horna
Kati Horna photographed both the real world and the surreal. She was a modern photographer who used her camera to document a civil war and to escape ...
Natalia Tiberio 2 October 2021
Lower Pecos Rock Art: Prehistoric Painting in North America
On the Texas-Mexico border, there are treasures of prehistoric art: hundreds of painted caves and rock shelters dating as early as 2000 BCE. Filled ...
Alexandra Kiely 21 September 2021
Artists in Prime Time: Art Featured in The Simpsons
Back in the mid- 1990s, a friend of mine showed me a book titled Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life. It was just what the title described, ...
Bruno Guerra 28 August 2021
Mastering Details: Heads and Hands in Käthe Kollwitz’s Art
The focus of Käthe Kollwitz’s art is the human being. Above all, a compassionate, humane outlook is characteristic of her approach. She was mainly ...
Petra Dragasevic 25 August 2021
