Renoir painted Deux femmes dans un jardin / Two Women in a Garden in 1919, the last year of his life. By this time, the artist’s vision had been...
Howard Schwartz 26 September 2018
American sculptor, Alexander Calder, most famous for his kinetic moving, suspended mobile sculptures, also created a number of massive stationary...
Nadine Waldmann 25 September 2018
How has a simple, yet beautiful fruit, been the centre of attention throughout history? The pomegranate is symbolic in many cultures and religions,...
Rachel Witte 24 September 2018
On the Johannes Vermeer's painting, we see a quiet, private moment. In Woman Reading a Letter, a young woman stands engrossed in reading a letter.
Zuzanna Stańska 23 September 2018
Raqib Shaw was born in Calcutta in 1974 to a family of luxury goods merchants who sold rugs, shawls, jewels and antiques, hence already from a young...
Magda Michalska 22 September 2018
The year 1886 was a turning point for Paul Gauguin's career as a painter. That was the year when the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany, France, became...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 September 2018
I’m sure we’ve all been told not to play with our food as we hide unappetising peas under a sticky lump of mashed potato. And most parents have...
Candy Bedworth 20 September 2018
The movie ‘Final Portrait’ is a faithful rendition of the book by James Lord, ‘A Giacometti Portrait.’ The book was published in 1965, a year...
Howard Schwartz 19 September 2018
Vision after the Sermon is one of the most important works the artist painted in Brittany. Breton peasants, which Gauguin viewed as exotic, are...
Zuzanna Stańska 16 September 2018
It is the last chance to see Wanderlust. From Caspar David Friedrich to Auguste Renoir - an exhibition on travel desire in the Old National Gallery...
Kate Wojtczak 13 September 2018
Seville, a Cultural Crossroads Today, Seville's golden age may have passed, but that is not to say it is without its treasures. Now the capital of...
Kacper Grass 10 September 2018
A youthful Bacchus, god of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre is reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 September 2018
