A Glimpse of Maritime Life in the Past in 7 Artworks
Sea, harbours, weather, ships, sailors, fishermen, merchants – maritime life is rich and fascinating. Let’s see a few great depictions of...
Europeana 4 October 2019
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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
Don’t Give Up the Day Job. Earn as an Artist
Artists starving in garrets is an old cliché. In fact many famous artists were sensible enough to have a day job in order to pay the bills! Some of...
Candy Bedworth 30 September 2019
Painting of the Week: Stanley Spencer, View from Cookham Bridge
Stanley Spencer described the village of Cookham, as a ‘village in heaven’. In his unique paintings Spencer often intertwined Cookham with his...
Hannah Demaine 22 September 2019
Make Everywhere Our New York: Keith Haring Exhibition to Inspire Liverpool Millennials
Why do Keith Haring’s works still matter in 2019? With Brexit approaching the deadline, Tate Liverpool welcomes the first major exhibition in the...
Guest Profile 17 September 2019
The Largest Mural on Earth
Early Fall, for students around the world, means one thing: back to school, back to writing papers, and exam preparations. For students of the...
Alicja Gluszek 16 September 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
Five Indian Modern Sculptors
Modernism in India did straddle, sneaking lopsided avenue from the ancient to the present. The post-colonial art is typically mentioned as Modern art...
Urvi Chheda 7 September 2019
The Storytelling Art of Kris Knight
The narrative of a painting can be interpreted on any level by anyone, and the dreamy portraits painted by the Canadian contemporary artist Kris...
Maria Frazzoni 3 September 2019
Through Scissors and Shadows: The Art and Films of Lotte Reiniger
Late one night while struggling with a bit of insomnia, I was channel surfing. I came across a stunning and hypnotic, silent, animated film that was...
Nadine Waldmann 31 August 2019
The Last Craftsman. Exploring Henry van de Velde and the Passage of Modernism
Until 1972, the Museen zu Berlin exhibited, among other things, a teapot and its accompanying set. From above, the teapot is around 22 centimetres...
Geoffrey Bunting 30 August 2019
