Magda Michalska

Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.

Stories By Magda Michalska

Architecture

Aubette 1928: a Neoplasticist Gesamtkunstwerk in Strasbourg

By Magda MichalskaJuly 10, 2019

Last week I had a chance to visit Strasbourg in Alsace, France. It’s a charming city full of picturesque narrow and tiny houses scattered along the canals. There are bridges and pretzels (yum!) everywhere. Yet, among...
Art History 101

Art Afterpieces. How Internet Didn’t Come up with Anything New

By Magda MichalskaJuly 3, 2019

Playing with the greatest masterpieces by adding to them contemporary elements, like inserting a smartphone into a hand of a Pre-Raphaelite lady, might seem an invention made a couple of years ago. Well, it is not....
dailyart

Strawberry Paintings Forever

By Magda MichalskaJuly 1, 2019

Strawberries are in season! There are very few who dislike them, I know only two such people. I love everything about them, from texture, to smell, to taste. Painters also love the way they look, red...
20th century

Pride Month: Andy Warhol’s Ladies and Gentlemen

By Magda MichalskaJune 27, 2019

The club “The Gilded Grape”, situated in the no man’s land of Eighth Avenue and West 45th Street in New York City, was a hub of drag queens and black and Hispanic transvestites. In 1975, Bob...
Art State of Mind

Sixth Sense? Allegories of Senses in Painting

By Magda MichalskaJune 26, 2019

How to show our sensual experiences visually? The human senses made out one of the most appealing subjects for European painters, especially that since the Middle Ages they had rather negative connotations, being considered as lustful...
Art State of Mind

Rainbow in Painting for LGBT Pride Month

By Magda MichalskaJune 18, 2019

June has been chosen as the Month of Pride to commemorate riots in the neighbourhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC, which were a response to a police raid that took place on June 28, 1969. This...
Art History 101

How to Become an Old Master? Turn on the Youtube First!

By Magda MichalskaJune 13, 2019

I can’t draw, I can’t paint, I can’t sculpt or do pottery. But I can watch videos on Rijksmuseum Youtube channel called RijksCreative and imagine I’m a Great Master, too. If you have canvas and brushes,...
Bodies And Erotic Art

Best Bums in Art History

By Magda MichalskaJune 7, 2019

When we met up with Zuza, our CEO, we started chatting about what’s missing in our blog. We quickly came to a conclusion: we miss some hot and shapely buttocks. So, here they come, best bums...
20th century

Natalia Goncharova First Time in London

By Magda MichalskaJune 6, 2019

We couldn’t have asked for a better birthday gift for Natalia Goncharova: a month before her birthday Tate Modern in London is presenting the first retrospective of her work in the UK ever. The exhibition opens on June, 6th....
20th century

Erna Rosenstein. Surrealist in the Country Where Surrealism Didn’t Exist

By Magda MichalskaMay 31, 2019

Erna was born a Jew. This fact weighed on her whole life because Erna’s family lived in Lviv, Ukraine and to complicate things even more, she turned 20 when Hitler rose to power in 1933. Ah,...