Control Neurosis: How Much of Our Life is Experience and How Much is Just Self-Sabotage?
Man rows with all his might, but the sea beneath the boat is no longer water — it’s a tangle of measuring tapes, each with different numbers, with no logic…
Ananke: The Inflexible Destiny
“The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive conjugality between the two: It is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation,…
David Hockney (1937-2026)
David Hockney belonged, above all, to light. It pulsates in his Californian swimming pools, enters through the wide-open windows of his interiors, glides through the trees of Yorkshire and…
An artist of contemporary illusions
Born in China and based in London, Hongxi Li is an artist who works at the intersection of performance, installation, sculpture and moving image. Her rigorously conceptualized practice investigates how…
A photographic reinterpretation of Balthus’s work – between innocence and eroticism, through the lens of Hisaji Hara
In the enigmatic universe of 20th-century art, the paintings of Balthus (1908–2001) fascinated and provoked, raising questions about the boundaries between innocence and eroticism, sacred and profane. Between 2009 and…
María María Acha-Kutscher: Architect of a Memory Recovered through Digital Collage
In the age of speed and infinite scrolling, our gaze has often become a form of superficial despotism. We pass over images without really seeing them, accepting visual clichés as…
Arthur Fellig (Weegee), Time Is Short, 1942
Lower East Side, Manhattan Taken months after America entered World War II, this photograph captures young men headed to war and the women who linger beside them, acutely aware of…
The history of a photograph: The kiss in the middle of street riots
Vancouver, Canada, 2011. A Stanley Cup ice hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins turned the city’s streets into a real battlefield. Vancouver officials said…
Story of a photograph: Lauren Bacall in Helena Rubenstein’s Bathroom, 1943
A 1943 Harper’s Bazaar cover shot by photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe is credited with launching the Hollywood career of 17-year-old model Betty Joan Perske, who became a major screen…
„Tightrope of Our Hope” or how art reminds us of the sadness of history (“Tightrope of Our Hope” sau cum arta ne aminteşte de tristeţea istoriei)
“Tightrope of Our Hope” sau cum arta ne aminteşte de tristeţea istoriei Opera grafică a lui William Kentridge, expusă la Marian Goodman Gallery, este intitulată “Tightrope of Our…