The Writing on the Wall. Banksy’s Unauthorized Exhibition
From when we wake up to when we go to sleep, one week over to the next, our lives line up in a series of routines and responsibilities, giving rhythm...
Christopher Michaut 30 January 2019
Art Forms
Carnivalesque Man Ray and His Masks
Since the carnival is officially on, I thought of writing an article about masks. The first artist that comes to mind if one says ‘masks’...
Magda Michalska 29 January 2019
Bauhaus Turns 100! Yahoo! This is your celebration!
As one of my fav bands Kool&The Gang sings in their hit Celebration, I want to "celebrate good times" of Bauhaus in "a celebration to last...
Magda Michalska 25 January 2019
Memphis Is Not in Fact a City but a Design Group
Heard of Memphis? And I do not mean here the city in Tennessee or the ancient capital in Egypt, but an international group of designers and...
Magda Michalska 18 January 2019
The Ancient Greek Kouros and Kore
Classical Greek statues depicting male and female bodies are iconic, legendary and set the standards for numerous artists and art movements to come.
Nadine Waldmann 14 January 2019
A Tribute to Sister Wendy Beckett – Art Historian, Nun, and TV Personality
Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018) was probably the world’s most unconventional art historian. She was a Carmelite nun who spent most of her life...
Alexandra Kiely 11 January 2019
Wild Women of the Waves – Art of Ships Figureheads
A figurehead is a carved and painted figure ornamenting the bow of a ship (that’s the front to us landlubbers!). For thousands of years people have...
Candy Bedworth 10 January 2019
Untitled & Unbridled: Tara Donovan’s Installations
Styrofoam cups, pencils, rubber bands and straws are not the kinds of materials usually associated with art installations, yet these mundane,...
Nadine Waldmann 22 December 2018
Both/And: The Art of Glenys Barton
There are many social, political, scientific and economic models that are embracing the idea of ‘both/and’ philosophy. It is my contention that...
Candy Bedworth 19 December 2018
David Hockney and The Camera: A Composite Polaroid Reality
Sometime before 1982, Hockney commented that Photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralysed...
Magda Michalska 21 November 2018
Eerie, Haunting and Below the Sea: DeCaires Taylor’s Underwater Museums
In 2006, British artist Jason deCaires Taylor installed the first undersea sculpture park in the Caribbean. Since that time he created several other...
Nadine Waldmann 6 November 2018
Sense or Sensibility – Bridges of Santiago Calatrava
The recent announcement of the decision to replace the slippery glass panels on Ponte della Constituzione bridge in Venice, designed by Santiago...
Joanna Kaszubowska 22 October 2018
