Art Archives: 08/2017

Once upon a time, in the land of Persia, there lived a very wise old King called Anushirvan who had heard of an ancient book…

Looking for a scintillating opening paragraph to begin this piece on hilariously defaced kids’ coloring books, I thought it’d be fun to share a few…

Stanley Kubrick got his first camera off his old man Jacques when he was thirteen. It was a Graflex Pacemaker with a coated lens, body…

In 1948, the photographer Grete Stern was asked to contribute photographic illustrations for a weekly column on the interpretation of dreams in the Argentinian women’s…

‘Seated Woman.’ Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) was a Japanese photographer who learned his trade as an assistant to Felice Beato, the pioneering photojournalist who came to…

I’m not entirely sure how I managed to missed this one, but in 2015 photographer Inge Prader brought Gustav Klimt’s paintings to “life.” Prader shot…

It all started out as a bit of fun when artist Ambera Wellmann “plunked” an egg into a watermelon. The strangely irrational satisfaction Wellmann felt…

Denis Diderot might sound like the name of some superstar French soccer player but it is in fact the name of a famous Enlightenment writer,…

Photographer Cindy Sherman has undertaken a sustained and acclaimed critique/exploration of the nature and construction of identity, Western self-representation, the male gaze, and the presumed…

Salvador Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…