Few colors are as politically charged as pink. Though today it is considered feminine throughout much of the world, up until around the mid-twentieth century, Westerners viewed the color as either genderless or masculine.
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After half a century, the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais has been reunited with a first-century Bacchus statue. First unearthed by archeologists in 1894 at the Roman Vertillum site, the bronze figure has long been considered a French treasure.
The latest issue of Sekka Magazine is dedicated to Creative Giants from Gulf Arab states. Here are five stories from that issue.
There have been many famous, artistic love affairs and partnerships over the years. These relationships run the gamut from inspirational muses to creative partners to lovers and friends.
At 130 pounds, Brie Ruais is equal in weight and material substance to her collaborator: clay. Each work they embark on involves pulling out the partner’s guts and pushing them into a shape.
Many animals have been favored subjects of artists for centuries, but cats have been more elusive, lurking on the periphery. All that changed in the late nineteenth century when the long-forgotten London-born cat artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) came around.
Surrealist artist Salvador Dali may be best known for the dream-like paintings he created throughout his life, but the man was just as strange as his work. Here are eight bizarre facts about the artist.
The word salon has a rich history of its own and was even used to indicate several different things within France in this period including an elite social gathering often led by a woman, a large reception hall, or an academic art exhibition.
This author has been to a number of museums in the world and never has she found a gem as hidden as the Walters Art Museum. Tucked away in a corner of Baltimore, the Walters is the kind of museum this author would love to take her mother and father to visit.
From community-minded installations, documentary photographs, confrontational mixed-media sculptures, to hyper-realist paintings, the following works force us to reconsider what basketball is on a local scale, who benefits, who is taken advantage of, and what fandom means today.
