Alejandra

LATEST ARTICLES ( 213 )

• The Other Worldliness of Anka Moldovan

  

  Trying to review Romanian-born artist Anka Moldovan’s latest exhibition "that which bursts" is, I have to admit, an excersize in arrogance, akin to claiming... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2023 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pleasure and Pain of Creativity

  

  Many are the creators who, throughout history, have believed they saw the origins of creativity, or at least some of its requirements, in good health and a... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2023 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Cecily Brown: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  To contemplate a painting by Cecily Brown is to experience something vital, especially as regards the massive canvasses she churned out feverishly during the... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2023 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Spinoza: All Is God and God Is All

  

  Spinoza held that the world is the expression of a divine substance that determines the laws of physics and human actions. I could not agree more. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2023 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance

  

  Florence, during the first decades of the fifteenth century, was the axis around which the world turned. In among its twenty neighbourhoods with their... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2023 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Hieroglyphs : Shining A Light On Ancient Egypt

  

  It must have been a dazzling sight to behold when the waters of the Nile flooded the lowlands of Ancient Egypt. The ground disappearing, the ditches filling... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2023 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Nicolas Berggruen

  

  Nicolas Berggruen (1961) is the founder and chairperson of Berggruen Holdings and the interdisciplinary think-tank, the Berggruen Institute, where scientists,... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Jean-Paul Sartre. To Exist is to Choose

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre, the father of existentialism, argued that man lacks essence and is condemned to be free. Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of many parts: philosopher... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Wrapping The Arc De Triomphe

  

  It has been 62 years since a young artist, recently arrived in Paris having fled from communist Bulgaria stowed away in a train carriage, began painting sketche... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Damien Hirst

  

  Damien Hirst (1965) began his artistic career as an iconic member of the Young British Artists group. The advertising mogul and gallery owner Charles Saatchi... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Miquel Barceló: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  “I am a specialist in life as a permanent crisis.” Thus defines himself Miquel Barceló, one of the most sought-after and internationally recognized Spanish... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sunsets by Heidi Hahn

  

  The Fahrenheit Gallery, Valeria Aresti's beautiful Madrid art space, is currently hosting the exhibition “Some Other Sunset” by rising New York star, the painte... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Ai Weiwei

  Recently inaugurated in Lisbon, Rapture, is the largest exhibition by artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei, (Beijing, China, 1957) described by The New... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Francisco De Goya. Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Francisco de Goya's work is universally famous for its spectacular quality, its modernity and its commitment. The Fuendetodos teacher was a pioneer in... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Tamara De Lempicka: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Tamara de Lempicka never gave up her independence and freedom. She maintained both thanks to her inate talent for painting, which gave her fame and fortune... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2021 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Van Gogh, Painting from Hell

  

  London's Tate Modern is currently hosting a visit from a very different Van Gogh. The exhibition comes courtesy of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and includes a... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Paul Klee - Angelus Novus - Walter Benjamin

  

  Two lives parallel in time, two like-minded ways of understanding the world and a piece of drawing paper that would forever bring together two of the great... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Joaquín Sorolla: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  "Art has nothing to do with ugliness or sadness. Light is the life of all it touches; so the more light there is in a painting, the more life, the more truth,... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Frida Kahlo: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Long after her death, Frida Kahlo has ultimately transcended her own reality. From revolutionary painter, creator of intimate worlds and a woman tortured and... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Hannah Arendt and the 20th Century

  

  Until 18th October, Berlin's Museum of German History will be hosting the exhibition "Hannah Arendt and the 20th Century" which provides the perfect pretext to... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE