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,...
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...
Kate Wojtczak 13 September 2018
Rogier van der Weyden has a very special place in my heart because the first art historical essay that I had ever written at university was on him...
Magda Michalska 6 September 2018
The color was overwhelming. I was on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, visiting an exhibit called ‘Bodys Isek Kingelez:...
Howard Schwartz 5 September 2018
The Stedelijk Museum is a modern and contemporary art and design museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It includes works in many media from the late-19th...
Alexandra Kiely 1 September 2018
In a world where everything seems even more disposable as the days go by, it is interesting to look to what was consumed and thrown away in the 20th...
Helena Pereira 30 August 2018
Religious themes in art have prevailed throughout time. Whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism – being able to visually...
Rachel Witte 28 August 2018
The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus, has fascinated...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 27 August 2018
