Bronwyn Katz (born 1993) is a South African sculptor and visual artist. She is a founding member of iQhiya Collective, a network of young black womxn artists based in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. Ref: The Talk Bronwyn, when did you first realize that you could tell stories through art? It’s actually hard for […]
Albert Watson (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s, and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel and Levis. Watson has also taken some well-known photographs, from the portrait of
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The ancient Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ depicts women turning into elements of the natural world. A shift from the male gaze in art occurs during the Renaissance period when women begin to represent themselves through self-portraits. By the 1970s and 1980s, self-portraits become tools that allow women to redefine themselves through transformation: they play with
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With a patent application first lodged by the Lumière brothers in late 1903, autochrome was an additive three-colour photographic process. It consists of a mosaic of colours on a glass plate, designed to be viewed using hand-held devices or projected using carbon arc lamps. https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/9046-autochrome
Photographer Wilhelm Weimar (1857-1917) had a highly individual style. His ‘Herbarium’ of 1901 is a unique portfolio of organic compositions that testifies to his striking sense of composition, texture and detail. https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/8995-wilhelm-weimar
As his paintings go on show at Hauser & Wirth in London, the film-maker, writer and artist tells us about his latest genre-bending output and his biggest influences Fifteen years ago, the American film-maker, writer and artist Harmony Korine strongly felt a convergence of the creative, technical and spiritual worlds. “It felt like a kind
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Edward Akrout is launching Kyiv Art Sessions at the Old Sessions House this weekend The actor and artist Edward Akrout—who played a Ukrainian art professor in Bitter Harvest, a 2017 film about the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s 1932 Holodomor famine against Ukraine—is launching a Ukrainian art festival, called Kyiv Art Sessions, in London, this weekend
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The name of this blog says it all. Before we get to the written content itself, a few words on the design, as it certainly lives up to this year’s web design trends with its clean aesthetic and minimalistic blog logo. The overall sensation is fresh and airy, thanks to the generous use of whitespace
This established art fair may not hold events the whole year round, but you can keep up-to-date through the “Stories” section of their website. Unlike most other art blogs, there’s a strong emphasis on video here. You can get to know a range of renowned artists through short videos in which they present their practice
Artforum is a popular platform that’s been at the forefront of contemporary art since its launch in 1962. This makes it a great place for discovering new artists and staying up-to-date on current art news. They report on everything from new curators on the scene, to updates on museums, the biggest art controversies and outrages,
