Art and Math: Aesthetics of Calculations
Do you like math? Well, many of us might have had some problems with it when we were in school (I, at least, had many!) and got fed up with it. So...
Rute Ferreira 5 January 2019
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2019: Year of the Pig and Pigs in Painting
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year closing the twelve-year lunar calendar cycle. It's named after the Pig because according to the...
Magda Michalska 4 January 2019
Picasso Metamorphosis at Palazzo Reale
Picasso Metamorphosis curated by Pascale Picard (director of the civic museum of Avignon), opened the autumn season in Palazzo Reale in Milan. The...
Maria Frazzoni 2 January 2019
Painting of the Week: Jacopo Tintoretto, Marriage at Cana
Because it's the New Year's Eve tomorrow and many of you are going to have fun I've chosen for our painting of the week a work depicting a party.
Kate Wojtczak 30 December 2018
The Art of Metamorphosis
"she broke the rules of time, fragmenting and aligning it, to sew the fundamental phases of her subjects' transformation: she brought us the...
Artur Deus Dionisio 29 December 2018
Untitled & Unbridled: Tara Donovan’s Installations
Styrofoam cups, pencils, rubber bands and straws are not the kinds of materials usually associated with art installations, yet these mundane,...
Nadine Waldmann 22 December 2018
Protest at Andy Warhol From A to B and Back Again—with Sage
An innocent visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art in the West Village of New York City on Sunday, December 9, turned into something more. The...
Howard Schwartz 15 December 2018
Edward Burne-Jones a Pre-Raphaelite Visionary
Tate Britain’s exhibition of over 150 works of Edward Burne-Jones brings us an exhaustive overview of his oeuvre. Like other Pre-Raphaelites...
Joanna Kaszubowska 14 December 2018
Theosophy and Art: There Is No Religion Higher Than Truth
The subtitle of today's post is the motto of the American Theosophical Society, which has been functioning since its foundation in New York in 1875.
Magda Michalska 13 December 2018
Vincent van Gogh’s Last Painting?
In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted one of his best-known artworks, Wheatfield with Crows. The painting is on display in The Van Gogh Museum,...
Heather Johnson 12 December 2018
An Artist Turned Suffragette. A Story of Olive Hockin
Ever heard of Olive Hockin? No? Me neither. While browsing pages for my next post about Theosophy, I came across this mysterious artist I had never...
Magda Michalska 11 December 2018
Mantegna and Bellini – Brothers in Art?
With this exhibition, the National Gallery in London aims to explore the artistic relationship between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini. The...
Joanna Kaszubowska 10 December 2018
