In the sixth annual Delirious Cities exhibition, 23 artists from 14 countries have tried to showcase how the city can be an ever-changing landscape. Inspired by Rem Koolhaas’ 1978 manifesto Delirious New York, the show captures life from America to Angola. Delirious Cities is on view until 29 August at Aperture Gallery, Read more…
In large part political and pessimistic in worldview, the albums nominated for this year’s Mercury prize could be interpreted as a treatise on Brexit Britain. They variously contain furious defences of the NHS, existential rage at the news cycle, indictments of online connection, despair at the shortcomings of the British penal system Read more…
The Dutch Golden Age was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first section is characterized by the Thirty Years’ War, which ended in 1648. The Golden Read more…
SoCultures presents again a very precious and informative issue. This issue explores our beautiful world and gets inspiration from cultures and incredible culture curators from the world over. There are stories of excellence and innovation in different fields of creativity- art, music, heritage, architecture etc. As someone has said, “Everything Read more…
Culture Curators! Art!!! Henry Geldzahler was once described as ‘the most powerful and controversial art curator alive’. A true cultural curator… Henry Geldzahler (July 9, 1935 – August 16, 1994) was a Belgian-born American curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century, as well as a historian and critic of modern art. The revered culture curator is best known for Read more…
Loving Vincent is a movie created in over 60,000 frames of painting. Loving Vincent movie was painted over 65,000 frames on over 1,000 canvases and is directed by Dorota Kobiela , Hugh Welchman . “We shot the film with actors, and literally painted over it frame by frame. This is a very laborious and Read more…
So Cultures was elated when Santhrupthy Das, the Origami artist, was excited and happy and wrote on her facebook wall…. “Teacher says, and I quote, “Allow yourself to engage in an artistic frivolous endeavour. Appreciate the subtleties of the beautiful things in life.” Maybe I don’t understand all of it today, Read more…
Oh well, we have studied about Bronze age, Stone age…the name been given may be of the materials used then. But looking at the wide, big world of Ceramics, its creative uses..we wonder why there is no such thing as a “Ceramics Age.” Ceramics once referred purely to pottery Read more…
(11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) Salvador Dali was extremely creative, a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Born in Ctalonia, Read more…