Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse

    /Winston Churchill/
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MUSEUM REVIEW – Design Museum in Kensington

Design Museum in Kensington. Crowdsourced wall. Displays of the User, the Designer, the Maker The idea to gather objects suggested by the general public and include them in the museum collection is definitely a creative […]

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SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT PICASSO AND THE EXHIBITION OF HIS WORKS

Picasso. Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Before seeing the above mentioned exhibition I had read about Picasso, as well as seen movies and documentaries about his life and work. I had also discussed this […]

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GALLERY REVIEW AND A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE REPRESENTED ARTISTS

M1 Fine Art gallery in Greenwich I visited this gallery accidentally but it was one of the best experiences I have had so far with regard to small size art galleries. The works were displayed […]

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EXHIBITION REVIEW

Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s at Photographers’ Gallery. Works from the Verbund collection. And Simon Fujiwara: Joanne. More than 200 works from 48 international artists. “…radical, poetic, ironic and often provocative investigations by women artists […]

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GALLERY REVIEW – Modern British Classics at Beaux Arts

Various authors, genres and techniques. I have to note that the way how works were displayed in the gallery was not successful. Due to the small rooms and different corners and openings that looked like […]

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EXHIBITION REVIEW

You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 at the V&A The exhibition contained all possible things one could imagine related to popular culture, fashion, music, lifestyle and trends of the time. It […]

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MOVIES ABOUT ARTISTS

  http://www.imdb.com/list/ls053492692?ref_=rls_2 Moliere (2007) Imprisoned for debt, playwright Molière is rescued by an aristocrat who needs his help in order to seduce a young marquise. I was not convinced that Moliere was such a person […]

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Dora Gordine

After the excursion to Dora Gordine’s house a la studio it suddenly occurred to me that she made a myth of herself and kept it all her life – a myth that is still alive […]

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VISUAL ANALYSIS – Max Supreme

The Max Supreme wooden glasses and sunglasses (Max Supreme, 2015) were invented in Latvia by Dairis Muizhnieks – a certified joiner who started a company that manufactures wooden frames for optical glasses and sunglasses. It […]

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BOOK REVIEW

This review is about a book called “The Psychology of Clothes” written by J.C. Flugel, published in 1966 London by the Hogarth Press LTD and the Institute of Psycho-analysis. The book contains 257 pages. It […]

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EXHIBITION REVIEW – Collecting Europe

The exhibition “Collecting Europe” has been created as a joint effort between the V&A and the Goethe Institute London. Twelve international artists have tried to imagine what Europe might look like 2000 years from now. […]

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EXHIBITION CATALOGUE REVIEW

The second enlarged catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-objective Paintings (Internet Archive, 2017) is dedicated to the exhibition which ran from February 8, 1937 through February 28, 1937. It is presented by […]