Iconography of Ganesh
Ganesh is the patron God of writers and intellectuals, and arguably the most well-known of the Hindu Gods. He is worshipped across all sects of...
Maya M. Tola 12 November 2019
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Book Review: Sister Wendy’s 100 Best-loved Paintings
Late last year, the art world mourned the death of Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018), the quirky British nun who became a world-wide sensation as a...
Alexandra Kiely 9 November 2019
Guggenheim: The Thannhauser Collection from van Gogh to Picasso at Palazzo Reale
From October 17th to March 1st 2020 Milan will be the meeting point for some of the most important artworks of the Impressionist movement. Palazzo...
Maria Frazzoni 8 November 2019
Conversations with Naomi Frears
Naomi Frears is a visual artist and filmmaker based in the Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, UK. I was lucky enough to touch base with this incredible...
Candy Bedworth 6 November 2019
Rembrandt’s Light—Dulwich Picture Gallery
Rembrandt’s Light exhibition at The Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death. The focus of this...
Joanna Kaszubowska 5 November 2019
The Peacock Throne of Shah Jahan
The iconic Peacock Throne or the Takht-i-taus was the greatest accumulation of precious gemstones in the 17th Century. Commissioned in 1628 by Shah...
Maya M. Tola 4 November 2019
Billie Bond’s Kintsugi: The Crack Is Where the Light Gets in
Kintsugi (金継ぎ translates as “gold joinery”) is a Japanese art form and philosophy of repairing broken or cracked pottery with gold...
Nadine Waldmann 30 October 2019
La Calavera Catrina. A Skeleton Lady
We all know Coco, a Pixar animation about a boy who dreams of becoming a musician, so he enters a talent contest, suddenly disappears from this world...
Alicja Gluszek 28 October 2019
Happy Days – the Landscapes of Peter de Wint
What do you think when you look at the image above? Most fans of Peter de Wint’s work see exquisite tranquillity and luminosity. That wide sky, the...
Candy Bedworth 21 October 2019
John Paddison – the Quiet Stone-Carver
John Paddison was a celebrated stone carver in the tradition of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill, but his name is not as well known. Paddison was born in...
Guest Profile 19 October 2019
Magdalena Rădulescu – a Romanian Woman Painter
Magdalena Rădulescu (1902- 1983) is a singular phenomenon among the Romanian and European painters. Her work (she had an artistic career spanning...
Guest Profile 18 October 2019
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
