The Rhythmic Spaces of Savin Couëlle
Architect Savin Couëlle’s organic designs go beyond extensions of the natural landscape. He creates a feeling of being one with nature. Couëlle...
Marga Patterson 16 July 2020
Art Forms
Bastille Day in Paintings
Fête nationale or 14 Juillet are the official names of Bastille Day in France. This national French holiday commemorates the beginning of the French...
Magda Michalska 14 July 2020
Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère: Best Can-Can Paintings in Art History
Can-can paintings depict the most famous dance of La Belle Époque era. Originating in France, the Can-can, associated with skirts, petticoats, high...
Charlotte Stace 11 July 2020
Danse Macabre: Dancing with Skeletons
Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) – a weird dance between people and skeletons. You might think that it is a scene from a horror movie. But...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 July 2020
LEGO Architecture: Build Your Very Own Modernist House
Lego gives us the opportunity to create our own world. We’ve all played as kids creating the most amazing places from our imagination or even...
Celia Leiva Otto 7 July 2020
Chiharu Shiota’s Installation Art: Drawing in the Air
Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota creates monumental artworks that immerse the visitor in a tangled web of their own imagination. Delicate yarn installations, filling a gallery space, move you from creation to death, and almost impossibly, beyond.
Candy Bedworth 2 July 2020
Sotheby’s 1988 Auction. A Turning Point for Unofficial Moscow Artists
Perestroika and reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev affected all spheres of life in Russia. As a result, unofficial artists in Moscow felt the full...
Elizaveta Ermakova 27 June 2020
Seven Books About Art for Holiday Chill
Holiday time but not sure if you can afford to travel? Or do you just need something to help forget about social distancing while relaxing somewhere...
Camilla de Laurentis 22 June 2020
Art Timeline: Paintings Inspired by Themes of the Film Orlando
Orlando (1992) is a British period drama based on the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name and is directed by Sally Potter. Orlando, played by...
Kateryna Martynova 2 June 2020
An Interview with Emily Thomas
Emily Thomas is a 24 year old, British, emerging artist. At first glance, her bright and vibrant sculptural work is distinctive and abstract. In a...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 25 May 2020
When the Arts Meet: Art Inspired Album Covers
If music is the soul of an album then the art on the cover must be its body. The choice of artwork for an album cover is an important one because at...
Anastasia Manioudaki 11 May 2020
Tableaux Vivants: A Long History of Recreating Art
A fanciful costume, a theatrical pose, the right light… and for a few seconds the viewer is immersed in a “living picture.” You have probably...
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