Katerina Belkina
Russian-born award-winning artist Katerina Belkina lives and works in Berlin. She is perhaps best known for intriguing if not mysterious solo portraits of women. But in a series called Light &...
View ArticleFinn Stone
The artist Finn Stone (b 1971) lives and works in London as an artist and designer. As an equally playful and bright spark, he has several public space sculptures, paintings, and furnitures on ‘his...
View ArticleOn the artist Grayson Perry
The tranny potter Grayson Perry (b 1960) is best known for his extraordinary art, though he is suprisingly modest about its graysonesce uniqueness. “Originality is something for people with short...
View ArticleWhich are the best Biennales in Europe?
Bold, beautiful and breath-taking, biennales have become big business. In the art-world, these are the equivalent of major sporting events, attracting art-lovers in their thousands. However, for the...
View ArticleRenaissance art
Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts from a period in European history known as the Renaissance. It emerged as a distinct style in Italy about 1400 and spread across Europe...
View ArticleConceptual Art
Forever pushing the envelope — or its luck, conceptual art will be with us for a very long time and it would be sorely missed if it disappeared. For anyone working with art, it conveniently helps...
View ArticleIntroduction of “In-Between”: Hans Ulrich Obrist
It is argued that one of the most characteristic features of the curating scene in the 1990s is the proliferation of “exhibition making” practices. Following the slow brewing effects of changes over...
View ArticleThe Changing Nature of Curating
One of the defining characteristics of the 1960s is that the idea of an independent curator came to the fore. Perhaps this is not surprising given that the 1960s was a period of liberalisation of the...
View ArticleThe Curator
The Oxford Dictionary describes the term Curator as a form of a keeper of a museum or collections and confirms that the word originates from the Latin word of curare ‘take care of’. (Sykes, 1986: 232)...
View ArticleTo under paint or not?
As anyone who has ever tried to paint an interior wall would testify, covering a dark area with white paint takes more than one coat. The same goes for a painting canvas. Paint, however well it covers...
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