Stories By Piotr Policht
20th century
Teapots and Dresses in the Service of the Russian Revolution
August 14, 2021Over 100 years have passed since the October Revolution but this remarkable event still fascinates not only historians dealing with politics and society but also art historians. Let us take you for a little trip back...
20th century
Masterpieces of Minimalism by Robert Morris
February 20, 2017What do you get when you strip art of metaphor, representation or metaphysics? It turns out that even if „what you see is what you see”, as Frank Stella put it, and there’s no „hidden meaning”...
21st century
Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures
January 13, 2017Did you even wonder how art could look like in the age of AI and high-tech body enhancements? There’s a lot of sci-fi movies like Ex-machina, Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner, that ask what being a...
20th century
Beyond Flowers And Desert, Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York
January 6, 2017She is definitely best known for her subtle, sometimes almost abstract depictions of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. But there’s also another great chapter in Georgia O’Keeffe’s artistic career that happens to be overseen sometimes – the...
21st century
The 10 Best Artists of 2016
December 31, 2016There’s no need for special introduction: here’s a subjective list of the 10 most interesting artist that were active in last year. Enjoy! Cao Fei Who is China’s most interesting artist right now? Forget Ai Wei...
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How Yves Klein Played with Gold
December 15, 2016Two weeks ago, we showed you some art of Edward Krasiński whose exhibition you can see right now at Tate Liverpool. There’s another great ongoing exhibition there, the one of Yves Klein. Klein was another artist for...
21st century
David Hockney – Old Master Painting on an iPhone
December 13, 2016It’s often hard to grasp what some great artists do when they turn into elderly living legends. Their works from half a century ago being constantly moved from one exhibition to another, all around the world....
20th century
The Best of Lucian Freud – Hotheaded Narcissus and Brilliant Painter
December 8, 2016Lucian Freud was born on this day in 1922. It’s a perfect occasion to take look at some of his greatest paintings. He was conventional in a way. In the late 20th century, he still sticked...
21st century
Mysterious Wise Woman in Paulina Ołowska’s Paintings
December 7, 2016Paulina Ołowska is a Polish artist, primarily a painter, but also working with mediums such as theater. She has a bee in her bonnet about reinforcing overlooked aesthetics, but not solely for aesthetic purposes. Ołowska is...
21st century
Juice Bar, Gym and Human Extinction: Welcome to the DIS World
December 1, 2016New York-based DIS collective works with popular culture, music, and fashion as much as with art. But what they do isn’t always easy to categorize. For example, they run a stock photography platform called DISimages. They...
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CHEAP: When Art Meets Activism – Interview with the Co-founder Sara Manfredi
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