Masterpiece Story: Duchamp’s La Joconde aka L.H.O.O.Q
This masterpiece, La Joconde, is all about codes, reversals, play with conventions, and provocation. In other words, it’s an epitome of Dada...
Magda Michalska 15 December 2021
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Not Only Queen’s Gambit – Chess in Art
Since October, the world, with many places in lockdown again, has found a new way to entertain itself. The Queen’s Gambit series, produced by...
Joanna Kaszubowska 19 December 2020
Gradiva: What Did Freud and the Surrealists See in Her?
A woman who walks. That’s what Gradiva (the name of an anonymous woman from an antique bas-relief) means, as given by a fictional character...
Magda Michalska 27 April 2020
How Artworks Can Suffer. The Forbidden City Case and More
Recently, on Monday, January 20th, two Chinese women drove their Mercedes SUV into the Forbidden City in Beijing. That event created quite a...
Michel Rutten 30 January 2020
The End of Lone Genius – Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
The Modern Couples exhibition at the Barbican focuses on creative relationships in modern art. How the relation affected the art of both involved...
Joanna Kaszubowska 9 January 2019
Grow Your Artsy Mustache For Movember!
Movember November is a month of raising awareness about men’s health, in particular about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s...
Magda Michalska 6 November 2017
