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Dance, Dance, Dance!
Dance, Dance, Dance!
Romancing Through Time with the Paintings of Renoir and Vettriano
Kim Vertue
Aug 29
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Japanese Kawaii Culture: Small and Adorable Things Reflect Your Heart
Japanese Kawaii Culture: Small and Adorable Things Reflect Your Heart
Exploring the origins of a soft power built by Japanese artists that now influences the world…
Yuri Minamide
Aug 23
Living the Nightmare with Saint Anthony
Living the Nightmare with Saint Anthony
Temptation, hallucination, and inspiration — a saint’s misfortune ignites the creativity of artists through the ages.
Samuel Belleville-Douelle
Aug 15
Blue Mountains, Blue Riders
Blue Mountains, Blue Riders
Gabriele Münter and the evolution of an extraordinary sense of colour and form
Kim Vertue
Aug 9
Embracing Tomorrow — ‘Deny’ by Utaha • 詩羽
Embracing Tomorrow — ‘Deny’ by Utaha • 詩羽
A potent, heartfelt mini-movie that speaks to teenage loneliness and empowerment.
Remy Dean
Aug 2
Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
The return to colossal sculpture presented a paradigm of masculine beauty…
Remy Dean
Jul 30
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celebrating 5️⃣ years of Signifier : spotlight (popular & trending)
Lest We Forget: Topolski’s 20th Century
Lest We Forget: Topolski’s 20th Century
Feliks Topolski’s ‘Memoir of the Century’ was a labyrinthine installation of illustrations well worth remembering…
Remy Dean
Feb 15, 2022
Watch the Birdie
Watch the Birdie
Gazing into the Dramatic and Enlightening ‘Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump’, Painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in 1768…
Kim Vertue
Feb 20, 2022
A School (of Athens) Reunion
A School (of Athens) Reunion
Raphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw themselves — successors to the great classical Greek philosophers…
Remy Dean
Feb 7, 2022
The Subjective Objects of Claes Oldenburg
The Subjective Objects of Claes Oldenburg
Reflecting on the life and works of an artist who elevated the everyday and freed us from the power of things
Remy Dean
Jul 25, 2022
So, What is Art?
So, What is Art?
“I don’t know much about Art, but I know what I like…”
Remy Dean
Jul 25, 2019
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