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Pratiksha Shome The title of this show at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Cape Town is a parody of Ava Duvernay’s 2019 Netflix film “When They See Us,” which centres on the Central Park Five, a group of Black teens who were wrongfully charged with killing a white jogger in 1989 before being […]
Black Figurative Painting: A Monumental Survey Exposes the Limits of Representation Read More »
PratikshaShome The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that a 16th-century painting known as Madonna with Child that is credited to the baroque painter Alessandro Turchi has returned to Poland after being stolen by Nazis during World War II. The artwork, one of 600 pieces that have been returned to Poland since the war and discovered
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Pratiksha Shome According to Bjrn Karmann’s website, the Paragraphica camera generates a stream of text that is then transformed into a “photo” using censors and geolocation information, including weather data. The red item, which according to the photography website Digital Camera World resembles a TV aerial crammed where the lens should be, substitutes the lens
Krispin Joseph PX Museum culture is now circulating the significance of our great past continually. If anyone, especially the student community, doesn’t have time to go to the Museum, then the Museum will come near you. Museums, especially outside Indian museums, are not accessible to everyone. The concept of a museum is related to a
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June 1, 2023. ON THIS DAY. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England, left an indelible mark on history despite her short life. From the time she ascended to the throne on this date, June 1st, in 1533 until the time of her execution in 1536, Anne Boleyn made significant contributions
The Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Her Influence on the Arts. Read More »
Vaishnavi Srivastava Happy Pride! As Pride Month kicks off we at Abir Pothi compiled a list of paintings in art history that are, well, just a little bit fruity. So next time a boomer hits you with a “I come from a generation where a couple means a man and a woman” you have 11
11 Famous Works in Art History That Depict Queer Love. Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX “Never once did I paint a work with the expectation that it would be fine as long as the woman depicted was beautiful. My earnest hope is that all my works are like fragrant jewels, always with a sense of fresh purity, never with even an iota of the vulgar,” said Uemura
Uemura Shoen, Who Inspired and Portrayed Japanese Women in Painting Read More »
Pratiksha Shome At the Saqqara necropolis west of Cairo, archaeologists have uncovered ancient mummification studios and two tombs that date back to as early as 30 BCE. Saqqara is a portion of Memphis, the nation’s historic centre and a UNESCO World Heritage site. According to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, in
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Pratiksha Shome PJ Harper, a mixed-race youngster who passed for white while growing up in Scotland, encountered covert prejudice and overt racism, which inspired him to embrace his blackness. He explained, “I can draw inspiration from characters from mythology, history, or modern culture, and then I consider how I envision this person or being would
Pratiksha Shome In her flamboyant, sloppy, color-pop paintings, Katherine Bernhardt has been flinging commonplace objects onto the canvas for the past 20 years. To scan a gallery of Bernhardts is to witness an intuitive artist at work; one who sees something close at hand and then transforms it into something vast, flat, and submerged in