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LATEST ARTICLES ( 186 )

• Takashi Murakami: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Nowadays, artists don’t have to take a vow of poverty in order to be successful and garner recognition from the general public. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Al Gore

  

  The former vice president of the US government under Bill Clinton's administration, Al Gore (Washington D.C., 1948), is known worldwide for his efforts in the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Gormley at the Royal Academy: a Discourse in Iron

  

  This exhibition bombards us with a storm of ideas. It is a gauntlet thrown down to us by the Royal Academy and one that Gormley takes up, with all his weapons... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Spa & Beauty. Geumhyung Jeong. The Ryder Gallery

  

  Geumhyung Jeong is an interdisciplinary Korean artist with roots in the worlds of theatre, animation and dance. Her arrival onto the contemporary art circuit... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Ramón Tamames

  

  Does science distance us from God? Professor of Economic Structure and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences Ramón Tamames (Madrid, 1933)... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  

  Sidi, the latest novel by writer and Royal Spanish Academy member Arturo Pérez Reverte (Cartagena, 1951), has just been published. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Stephen Schwarzman

  

  Stephen Schwarzman (Pennsylvania, 1947), CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms, is an active philanthropist in areas suc... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Wonderful Rediscovery of Lorenzo Lotto

  

  Let me start by highlighting what makes the 'Lorenzo Lotto. Portraits' exhibition such an exceptional project. Firstly, because never before has this subject... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Nick Bostrom

  

  The Swedish philosopher is one of the most influential in the field of superintelligence. He is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Anselm Kiefer

  

  With twilight beginning to fall on the little French village of Barjac, I began my tour of La Ribaute ~ 40 hectares of the German artist Anselm Kiefer's making ... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Colosseum, the Engine of Roman Power

  

  Coliseum director Dr Rosella Rea accompanies ABC Cultural on an exceptional visit through some of the recently restored, but as yet unopen to the public, areas... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Salvador Dali: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Life is art and art is life ..... or are they just two sides of the same coin? It is figures such as Salvador Dali who bring much-needed light to this shady,... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• An Invisible Image: The Tomb of the Diver

  

  This could be the beginning of a novel: Poseidonia, 5th century BC, and tragedy befalls a family from the local aristocracy. The lifeless body of their only... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In the Grotto of the Teuton. Anselm Kiefer in Barjac

  

  My flight touched down in Marseille on a sunny September morning and although my ultimate destination was Barjac, I couldn't help but make a small detour to... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Jack Ma

  

  Jack Ma ( China, 1964), founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, one of the leading tech companies in the world with Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Louise Bourgeois: Biography, Works, Exhibitions

  

  “Art is the guarantee of sanity. Pain is the ransom of formalism. That's the most important thing I have to say."  These words couldn't be a truer reflection... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Rembrandt Versus Vermeer

  

  2019: The Year of Rembrandt. Amsterdam kicks off Holland's 350th anniversary celebrations for the Old Master with its exhibition "All The Rembrandts of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Leïla Slimani: Lullaby (Chanson Douce)

  

  Leïla Slimani, born in 1981, is a French-Morrocan author and the 2016 winner of France's most prestigious award for literature, The Goncourt Prize, for her... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Bernard Henri-Levy

  

  One of the great thinkers and intellectuals of our time, Bernard-Henri Lévy (Algeria, 1948) has successfully launched a theatrical tour around Europe with his... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Jerusalem, a Historical Enigma

  

  that God granted the world ten measures of beauty (yofi), nine for Jerusalem and just one for the rest of the world. The Holy City has no rivers, no sea view, n... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE