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LATEST ARTICLES ( 213 )

• Tracey Emin. Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  “I only survived thanks to art. It gave me faith in my own existence." And this is how bluntly Tracey Emin (Surrey, 1963) writes in her explosive autobiography... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Francesco Clemente

  

  Author: Elena Cué Launched to fame by the Italian Trans-avantgarde in the early 1980s, the work of Francesco Clemente (Naples, 1952) follows an undetermined,... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Banksy: From the Backstreets to a Roman Palace

  

  Autor: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian We are here for what could arguably be called the retrospective of an unknown artist. The Terzo Pilastro Foundation in Rom... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Banksy: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Banksy is the pseudonym of the most high-profile graffiti painter in contemporary Street Art. Although there are no concrete biographical facts to go by, it is... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Antoni Tàpies: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  The sculptor and painter Antoni Tàpies was born (Barcelona 1923) into a well-to-do Catalan publishing dynasty and it was here and how his love of reading... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Three Paths To The Lake by Ingeborg Bachmann

  

  Author: Maira Herrero, MA in Philosophy. "The most intelligent and most important poet our country has produced this century has died, in hospital in Rome, as... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Lita Cabellut

  

  Lita Cabellut. Photo: Elena Cué The art of Lita Cabellut (Barcelona, 1961) is pure feeling, like the haunting voice of flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla whom... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy: The West is No More

  

  Author: Elena Cué Jean-Luc Nancy. Foto: Aïcha Messina Jean-Luc Nancy (Bordeaux, 1940) is one of the foremost French thinkers of our time. For many years, he... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Question Of Dimension. Contemporary Drawing

  

  William Kentridge: Tango For Page Turning, 2012-2013. Single Chanel HD video. Picture courtesy of Galleria Lia Rumma Milan/Naples. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Jenny Saville

  

  Author: Elena Cué Jenny Saville. Photo: Elena Cué British artist Jenny Saville (1970), one of the Young British Artists, deconstructs the stereotypes of beauty... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Glenn Brown.

  

  Glenn Brown. Foto: Elena Cué British artist Glenn Brown (1966) himself acknowledges and admits the influence that French Post-Structuralist philosophy has had o... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa

  

  Author: Elena Cué Courage, that virtue exhibited by some mortal beings, is what I would highlight about the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Elizabeth Peyton: Biography, Works, Exhibitions

  

  Awarded the 14th Annual Larry Aldrich Contemporary Art prize for "significant impact on visual culture", Elizabeth Peyton (Connecticut, 1965) is an American... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Elizabeth Peyton: Biografía, Obras y Exposiciones

  

  Awarded the 14th Annual Larry Aldrich Contemporary Art prize for "significant impact on visual culture", Elizabeth Peyton (Connecticut, 1965) is an American... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Zurbarán, a Painter Of Subtlety

  

  Autor: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Detail of St Cassilda's robe. Francisco de Zurbarán (c. 1630-1635) A conversation with Guillermo Solana The... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Candida Höfer

  

  Author: Elena Cué Candida Höfer. Photo: Elena Cué Luminosity, symmetry and proportion are some of the characteristics of the classical concept of beauty found i... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• “War’s Unwomanly Face”. Svetlana Alexievich

  

  Author: Maira Herrero, MA in Philosophy. Photo from the archives of Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich (1948, The Ukraine) was last year’s winner of the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Tears in Van Der Weyden's Deposition of Christ

  

  Detail: St John’s eye. The Deposition of Christ. Rogier Van der Weyden. It’s 1435 and Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400?-1464) leaves his French birthplace of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto

  

  Hiroshi Sugimo's portrait. Courtesy of the artist. The Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), is a photographer that resides halfway between Tokyo and New... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Chema Madoz. A Photographer of Few Words

  

  Autor: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian If, in a nod to surrealism, Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) metamorphosed into something from one of his own photographs, it... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE