The Bust of Nefertiti: Ancient Masterpiece or Genius Hoax?
On December 6, 1912, a team of excavators from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, led by Ludwig Borchardt, unearthed a wonderful work of art. They...
Montaine Dumont 20 November 2020
Art Forms
Story of Pygmalion and Galatea by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is an enchanting myth about a Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. He prays to goddess...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 19 November 2020
Portable Prehistoric Gods and Goddesses
Our prehistoric ancestors moved around a lot. It was a short and brutal life back then – you needed the protection and guidance of your gods...
Candy Bedworth 18 November 2020
Book Review: Frida Kahlo’s Unimaginable Life
Fridamania is contagious. Reading the Frida Kahlo book written by Hettie Judah almost drags us to the brink of melancholic stroke despite being armed...
Urvi Chheda 17 November 2020
Tina Modotti: Photographer Made Revolutionary
Her biography is a ready-made storyline for a movie (Hollywood, do you hear me?). In the end, how many of us are poor workers who make an acting...
Magda Michalska 17 November 2020
The Allure of Ruins — Architectural Decay in Art
There is a haunting beauty in architectural ruins. War or the passage of time has ravaged the magnificent feats of earlier civilizations. But in...
Maya Tola 16 November 2020
Painting of the Week: Banksy, Season’s Greetings
What if a children’s game turned into a frightening nightmare? And what would you think if the cause was… you? In Port Talbot, UK, Banksy...
Camilla de Laurentis 15 November 2020
Ways in Which Art Can Fight Climate Change
In the last few years people, especially the new generations, have raised their voices as they understood that there was not much time left to save...
Arianna Richetti 14 November 2020
Michael West, Woman Artist Excluded from the Ab-E Gang
The American art world in the era of the post war boom of Abstract Expressionism was definitely male-oriented. And the career of Corinne Michelle...
Magda Michalska 12 November 2020
Pollen, Purity and Patience: A journey of creation with Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib (born 1950) is a contemporary German sculptor. He works with natural materials that emanate life energies: milk, pollen, rice and...
Marga Patterson 11 November 2020
Capturing Light: The Pioneers of Photography in France
It all officially began in 1839 in two countries at once: in Britain, the British Royal Academy announced the discovery of a method of capturing...
Magda Michalska 11 November 2020
The Original Guerilla Girls: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
A book review of Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H Jackson. If I asked for your top 10 political artists, does Claude Cahun spring to mind? Marcel Moore?...
Candy Bedworth 10 November 2020
