"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Suzanne Jackson is an African-American visual artist, dancer, educator, and set designer. Born in 1944 in St. Louis, she spent her early childhood in San Francisco and her youth in what she defines as "the remote natural environment of pre-statehood Alaska." Upon returning to San Francisco,...
In my endeavour not to spend my days in misery, last Monday I went to Fondazione Prada here in Milan to see their new temporary exhibition: Folding Screens from the 17th to the 21st Century. It's the kind of thing I would have visited when...
The exhibition has been going on for a while, but I've been: depressed; busy with my forced relocation; depressed; busy with looking for a construction crew that can handle the repairing works in my house; depressed; busy with work; depressed; away on a journey. Said journey...
This is how this exhibition should have been called and let me be clear about it: I think it's the best exhibition in town. Created in collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, it's curated by Francesco Poli, art historian, Mariella Guzzoni, author of Vincent's...
People are always misplacing this one and, due to the proximity of his exhibition to the Goya one I wrote about yesterday, I'm unsurprised that some people queuing for the ticket thought they were contemporaries. Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco because he moved to...
The exhibition is called "The Rebellion of Reason", echoing Goya's famous statement on the monsters-producing sleep of reason, it's set up at the lower level of Milan's Royal Palace, and it's curated by Víctor Nieto Alcaide, an 83-years-old Spanish historian of arts (and historian of...
Most people go on vacation to relax, which often requires disconnecting from reality entirely. Being wired that way, they are able to enjoy runaway resorts and places where all you do is sleep. Alas, my brain won't accept anything of the sort: if you want me...
We continue our selection of painters who captured ghosts on canvas, this spooky season, and this week I give you Richard Tennant Cooper (1885 - 1957), painter of diseases and maladies in very bright colours. Come and take a look at him on my Patreon,...
Today's book is published by the University of Washington Press and focuses on the life and work of Luo Ping, an XVII Century Chinese artist. In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733–99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City....
Did I get lost in the Citadel? Did I fall in the Saladin's well? Am I still in the suq, bargaining for a necklace? Well, I certainly hope not. Should everything proceed according to schedule, a jolly light day expects me today as we'll be...
