Billie Bond’s Kintsugi: The Crack Is Where the Light Gets in
Kintsugi (金継ぎ translates as “gold joinery”) is a Japanese art form and philosophy of repairing broken or cracked pottery with gold...
Nadine Waldmann 30 October 2019
Art Forms
John Paddison – the Quiet Stone-Carver
John Paddison was a celebrated stone carver in the tradition of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill, but his name is not as well known. Paddison was born in...
Guest Profile 19 October 2019
Filmmaking is like Painting – Andrzej Wajda as a Painter
Ladies and Gentlemen, and now I will speak in Polish… – the famous words Polish director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) said while receiving...
Judyta Dąbrowska 17 October 2019
The Artistic Inspiration of Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga was the “Master of us all,” as Christian Dior said, and a “couturier in the truest sense of the word,”...
Errika Gerakiti 15 October 2019
Beatles and Biennales – the Life and Times of Robyn Denny
In a grim and conservative post-war Britain, Robyn Denny burst onto the art scene like a Holi festival colour bomb. He arrived at art school in...
Candy Bedworth 3 October 2019
The Largest Mural on Earth
Early Fall, for students around the world, means one thing: back to school, back to writing papers, and exam preparations. For students of the...
Alicja Gluszek 16 September 2019
Through Scissors and Shadows: The Art and Films of Lotte Reiniger
Late one night while struggling with a bit of insomnia, I was channel surfing. I came across a stunning and hypnotic, silent, animated film that was...
Nadine Waldmann 31 August 2019
The Poetry in Painting — Turner’s Ovid in Exile
This petite (9.46 x 12.50 cm) oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner contains big things: big landscapes, big stories and big skies. It is an imagined scene...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 26 August 2019
Masterpiece Story: Três Orixás by Djanira da Motta e Silva
Djanira da Motta e Silva pictured a very unusual Holy Trinity made of three deities from the Afro-Brazilian Pantheon. They are accompanied by...
Alicja Gluszek 25 August 2019
An Introduction to Lee Ufan
Lee Ufan is a Korean born international artist, whose work is key to the Mono-ha movement. If you have ever been lucky enough to encounter a Lee Ufan...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 21 August 2019
TAKIS: the Greek Genius that Altered the Course of Post-war Sculpture
After Takis’ passing away on 9 August 2019, and with his largest exhibition yet in the UK at Tate, it is important to know about the great...
Errika Gerakiti 15 August 2019
A Secret Revealed in a Dresden Vermeer
Back in 2019, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) announced an exciting new...
Alexandra Kiely 31 July 2019
