Simon Hantaï: A Journey to Abstraction
Simon Hantaï was a Franco-Hungarian painter whose work is marked by a reflection on painting techniques. In an evolution that carried his art to...
Maia Heguiaphal 7 January 2020
Artist Stories
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
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
Joseph Beuys at BASTIAN Gallery
Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986), currently on display at BASTIAN gallery, was a controversial German artist, whose work regularly caused public...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 1 October 2019
Getting Your Teeth into Goya
Goya was not a happy man when he painted Saturn Devouring His Son, some time between 1819 and 1823. By the time he created this painting,...
Craig Wakerley 10 September 2019
Moving to Abstraction: Andreas Gursky’s Rhine
Andreas Gursky’s Rhine is an interesting piece that tells the transformation of a real-life picture into an abstract work of art. The move towards...
Michel Rutten 26 July 2019
Black Is Beautiful: Kwame Brathwaite at the Skirball Center
Let’s play a game: pick up any magazine from a US newsstand and count how many people of color are featured. Now try playing with a magazine from...
Guest Author 15 June 2019
It’s Not Always What It Seems: The Fabulous Inventions of Panamarenko
Panamarenko steals from science and uses it in his art. He has designed planes and submarines that at first sight are perfectly capable of...
Michel Rutten 12 June 2019
Josef Šíma: from Czech Republic to Paris
Josef Šíma was born in Jaromer, in today’s Czech Republic in 1891, but he became a naturalized French citizen (he took the citizenship...
Magda Michalska 9 May 2019
William Strang: Portraitist, Printmaker, Scotsman
I used to live in Scotland and when I stumble upon a Scottish artist I’d had no idea about before, I really want to share their art with you.
Magda Michalska 27 April 2019
Kiki Smith’s Bodies as Instruments of Perception and Travel
It seems Kiki Smith didn’t have much choice when deciding on who to become in the future because art just flows in her veins: her father Tony...
Magda Michalska 6 April 2019
Huguette Caland’s Linear Eroticism
Some see her art as sexualized. I’d rather see Huguette Caland’s linear eroticism, which shifts between abstraction and figuration, as an...
Magda Michalska 26 March 2019
