“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell said, and we know this best through the study of art history itself. We reflect on a civilization’s achievements through its art, the creation…
February 20, 2014
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Lee Miller is a fascinating character of contemporary photography. Recently, her son Antony Penrose gave an interview to the historian Primož Lampič. We decided to publish it. Interview by e-mail between…
Imagine a Motel inhabited by psychopaths, windows opened on the Memory, where the characters are actors without theater, citizens without cities, orphans, slaves, outcasts, rejected, sick, murderers, criminals, thieves, prostitutes:…
In the 1980s Australian-born photographer Robyn Beeche turned her lens on the “gender-bending” world of counter-culture in London collaborating with the likes of Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood and Divine. Her…
First in Hong Kong at the gallery “Contemporary by Angela Li”, then in Beijing at Today Art Museum, February and March mark the two months to have a chance to…
The principle is simple. On the one side, there’s Michael McCollom, the African-American designer and photographer. One the other, there are all the people he asked to dig through their photo…