Tomás Saraceno at The Shed and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Tomás Saraceno is an Argentina-born, Berlin-based artist and community activist who has filled two New York City spaces with the wonders of spider...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 14 March 2022
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Moving Dialogues Between Art History and The Syrian War
And yet another war. The only thing that I can do about it, apart from donating to humanitarian aid organizations, pressuring my government to take...
Magda Michalska 14 March 2022
The Symbol of Sagittarius on the Tile Spandrels of Qaysariya Gate of Isfahan
The Qaysariya bazaar is located in the north of Naqsh-Jahan square of Isfahan. It was founded by Shah Abbas in the Safavid period. On the tile...
Guest Author 14 March 2022
Healing Violante Ferroni’s Paintings at San Giovanni di Dio Hospital
In the mid-18th century, Florentine artist Violante Ferroni painted two large religious scenes for the atrium of San Giovanni di Dio hospital. Almost...
Alexandra Kiely 12 March 2022
Painting Human Desire for Happiness – Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
When we think of Gustav Klimt we imagine beautiful portraits of women, sensual and dangerous compositions, gold and decorative motifs. However, if...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 March 2022
Both/And: The Art of Glenys Barton
There are many social, political, scientific, and economic models that are embracing the idea of the “both/and” philosophy. It is my...
Candy Bedworth 10 March 2022
Why Political Actionism Is So Popular in Russia
The sources of Russian political actionism are in the unofficial art of the 1960s. Nonconformism emerged in a country where kitschy socialist realism...
Diana Sadretdinova 7 March 2022
Michelangelo’s Pieta: An Ode to the Sublime
The Pietà – or Virgin of Pity – is the representation of the Blessed Virgin holding her divine son on her knees. This iconic type...
Montaine Dumont 6 March 2022
Stretching the Body – A Reflection on the Representation of the Human Figure
In Northern Italy, in Turin, you can find the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, one of the most interesting Italian spaces dedicated to...
Arianna Richetti 3 March 2022
Three Erased Women Artists You Didn’t Know About
Happy Women’s History Month to all women and men (in the end men should celebrate with us)! I hope that with each passing year the world...
Magda Michalska 1 March 2022
5 Modern Women Artists to Know
When we think of modern women artists, certain names immediately come to mind. For instance, anyone can name Frida Kahlo, and the more well-read will...
Anastasia Tsaleza 1 March 2022
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? 50 Years Later
The well-known essay Why have there been no great women artists by Linda Nochlin was originally published in ARTnews in January 1971. It is an essay...
Errika Gerakiti 1 March 2022
