Mulyana: Fragile Ecologies and Crocheted Ecosystems
In the last few months, SAPAR Contemporary in New York displayed the exhibition Mulyana: Fragile Ecologies. It featured some of the most interesting...
Arianna Richetti 2 May 2022
Artist Stories
Spellbound by Marcel, But Not Really About Him
Ruth Branden’s Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art (New York: Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2022) is a new book about the New York City-based...
Alexandra Kiely 21 March 2022
Abstract Visions and Rhythmic Feels: Interview with Painter Jenna Ransom
Jenna Ransom is a contemporary painter whose work is guided by intuition and imagination. Abstract visions of lively, ambiguous shapes and familiar...
Marga Patterson 21 February 2022
Slavko Kopač: Painting the Experienced, Not the Seen
Slavko Kopač, a Croatian-French painter, was one of the most important protagonists of Art Brut and Art Informel, artistic directions of innovative...
Petra Dragasevic 10 February 2022
The Joy of Lucian Freud: Self-Portraits
Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is regarded as the pre-eminent British figurative painter of the last 60 years. Francis Bacon, two decades older, and David...
Guest Author 10 February 2022
Djibril Diop Mambéty – The Poet of African Cinema
“It is good for the future of cinema that Africa exists.” Born on January 23rd, 1945, in Colobane, a small town south-west of Dakar,...
Montaine Dumont 6 February 2022
Genius of All the Art Forms: Mikhail Vrubel’s Fantastic Worlds
The place of Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) in Russian art is exclusive and isolated. Legends already began to form around Vrubel during his lifetime. He...
Elizaveta Ermakova 20 January 2022
The Warli Painting Artist Jivya Soma Mashe
Jivya Soma Mashe is an internationally acclaimed Warli painting artist. A tribal artist from India, Mashe was known for wonderful Warli paintings,...
Urvi Chheda 7 January 2022
Henri Matisse’s Cut-Outs
Coping with the difficulties of old age and illness in the years following World War II, Matisse nonetheless produced some of the most vibrant and...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 December 2021
Lady in Blue: Yelizaveta Martynova, Ill-Fated Russian Female Artist
Can you name some female artists, and from Russia in particular? It’s difficult even for those who are really into art. This article tells the...
Guest Author 10 December 2021
Through a Gentle Gaze: The Art of Zinaida Serebriakova
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967) is mostly known for her painting At the Dressing-Table (Self-Portrait). The artist, looking from the mirror’s...
Elizaveta Ermakova 10 December 2021
Julian Stanczak and His Abstract Life
You may think that experiences such as forced labor in Siberia, losing the nerves in his dominant arm, or ending up in a refugee camp would have...
Magda Michalska 3 December 2021
