Piotr Policht

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Beyond Flowers and Deserts: Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York

She is definitely best known for her subtle, sometimes almost abstract depictions of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. But there’s also...

Piotr Policht 4 January 2024

Museum Stories

Mysterious Wise Woman in Paulina Ołowska’s Paintings

Paulina Ołowska, a prominent Polish artist known primarily for her paintings, is not one to be confined by artistic conventions. A fervor for...

Piotr Policht 6 November 2023

Contemporary Art

David Hockney – Old Master Using Digital Art

It’s often hard to grasp what some great artists do when they turn into elderly living legends. Their works from half a century before are...

Piotr Policht 26 June 2022

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Teapots and Dresses in the Service of the Russian Revolution

Over 100 years have passed since the October Revolution but this remarkable event still fascinates not only historians dealing with politics and...

Piotr Policht 26 January 2022

Sculpture

Masterpieces of Minimalism by Robert Morris

What 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...

Piotr Policht 20 February 2017

Bizarre

Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures

Did 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,...

Piotr Policht 13 January 2017

Contemporary Art

The 10 Best Artists of 2016

There’s no need for special introduction: here’s a subjective list of the 10 most interesting artist that were active in last year.

Piotr Policht 31 December 2016

Artist Stories

How Yves Klein Played with Gold

Two weeks ago, we showed you some art of Edward Krasiński whose exhibition you can see right now at Tate Liverpool. There’s another great...

Piotr Policht 15 December 2016

Artist Stories

The Best of Lucian Freud – Hotheaded Narcissus and Brilliant Painter

Lucian 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...

Piotr Policht 8 December 2016

Museum Stories

Juice Bar, Gym and Human Extinction: Welcome to the DIS World

New 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...

Piotr Policht 1 December 2016