Stories By Magda Michalska
Art State of Mind
The International Dispute over Montezuma’s Tiara
November 25, 20202021 will be the year of a double anniversary for Mexicans, marking 200 years since liberation from Spanish dominion, and 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec city which gave foundation to modern Mexico...
Artists' Stories
Tina Modotti: Photographer Made Revolutionary
November 17, 2020Her biography is a ready-made storyline for a movie (Hollywood, do you hear me?). In the end, how many of us are poor workers who make an acting career in Hollywood, who then become photographers who...
Abstraction
Michael West, Woman Artist Excluded from the Ab-E Gang
November 12, 2020The American art world in the era of the post war boom of Abstract Expressionism was definitely male-oriented. And the career of Corinne Michelle (Michael) West was its victim. She could have been famous. But she...
19th Century
Capturing Light: The Pioneers of Photography in France
November 11, 2020It all officially began in 1839 in two countries at once: in Britain, the British Royal Academy announced the discovery of a method of capturing images on paper by the action of light; in France, the...
19th Century
The Mysterious Pinturas Negras Reveal Goya’s Darkest Secrets
November 9, 2020There are already several articles that treat in detail the life and works of Francisco Goya. If you want to learn about his career or most famous works, look them up in our magazine because here...
20th century
Miyatake Gaikotsu and his Puzzling Postcards
November 4, 2020At the beginning of the 20th century, when Japan started embracing the West and rapid industrialization of almost all aspects of life, Miyatake Gaikotsu (funnily enough, gaikotsu means ‘skull/skeleton’ in Japanese) was the one who questioned...
Art Travels
Visit in Madrid or Online: The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
November 1, 2020We’ve found yet another reason to visit Madrid: The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza! Alright, traveling nowadays is a painful topic as it’s best we all stay home and admire the highlights of the museum Thyssen-Bornemisza online. So,...
dailyart
Painting of the Week for All Saints: A Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet
November 1, 2020Who nowadays doesn’t appreciate Gustave Courbet‘s striking realism? We all do, but as happens with many geniuses, Courbet was not appreciated by his contemporaries, especially at the beginning of his career. In 1851 he presented this...
20th century
Where is Ana Mendieta? The Unresolved Mystery
October 29, 2020“Where is Ana Mendieta?” was the question shouted in 1992 by over 500 protesters lined in front of the newly opened Guggenheim Museum site in SoHo, New York (closed nowadays). The inaugural show featured the work...
19th Century
Philipp Otto Runge: The Seer of the Mysteries of God
October 28, 2020Runge died of consumption at the same age as Christ, which to those who believe in signs might be crucial since Philipp Otto Runge was a mystic who claimed to “see through the mysteries of God”...
