Stories By Nadine Waldmann
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dailyart
Turquoise: Art, Culture and Myth of a Gemstone
July 27, 2019The bright blue-green Turquoise has been valued and revered for centuries by all the cultures around the world that had access to it. Several original sources of the stone are now long gone, having been mined...
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Baroque
Wishes & Streams: Trevi Fountain in Rome
July 4, 2019With another heat wave hitting Europe this summer, I was reminded of my visit to Rome during the last heat wave with crowds clamoring around fountains and spouts around the city. The most crowded and famous...
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19th Century
The Beginning of a New World at Kröller-Müller Museum
June 20, 2019The Beginning of a new World: The Development of Modern Sculpture is the newest exhibition at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. It pays tribute to the unique vision and incredible sculptural acquisitions of Bram Hammacher,...
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Ancient
Pentelic Splendour: The Erechtheion Caryatids
June 3, 2019I visited Athens, Greece in the summer of 2016. Naturally a visit to the Acropolis was mandatory, and it was as beautiful and epic as you can imagine. One of the most striking sights was the...
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Artists' Stories
A Song and a Prayer – Croatia’s Ivan Mestrovic
April 23, 2019My favorite thing about Instagram is coming across new art and artists – scrolling and finding things that excite you and catch your eye. A page I follow posted a photo of Ivan Mestrovic’s Vestalka (Vestil...
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21st century
Art of the Brick – Nathan Sawaya’s Lego Works
March 27, 2019Lego springs to mind as one of the key toys of many people’s childhoods. Whether building houses, spacecrafts or just stepping on that elusive piece, most people have some kind of experience with the little plastic...
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dailyart
The Eyes Have It: The Moai of Easter Island
March 5, 2019The monolithic moai statues on Easter Island have long been shrouded in mystery. Almost a thousand years since their creation, they still fascinate with unanswered questions the likes of other enigmatic structures such as the pyramids...
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19th Century
Into the Abyss: The Forgotten Pietro Canonica
February 1, 2019A prominent, famous and revered artist in his lifetime, Pietro Canonica has been relegated to the sidelines of Italian art history. Skilled and beautiful as it works were, his commissions from aristocracy and fascist governments caused...
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Ancient Greece
The Ancient Greek Kouros and Kore
January 14, 2019Classical Greek statues depicting male and female bodies are iconic, legendary and set the standards for numerous artists and art movements to come. Preceding the Classical Era, was the Archaic (7th-5th c. BCE) during which statues...
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Sculpture
Untitled & Unbridled: Tara Donovan’s Installations
December 22, 2018Styrofoam cups, pencils, rubber bands and straws are not the kinds of materials usually associated with art installations, yet these mundane, everyday items are used in abundance in Tara Donovan’s works. She uses them to create...
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