How Love Feels - Art by contemporary artist Toma Stenko
Every picture tells a story goes the saying. For Georgian artist Toma Stenko, narrative abounds in her paintings, driven by color and figura
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Eugene Steiner
- Mar 20
- 6 min
REMNEV'S CARNATION - Hyperrealistic painting by Andrey Remnev
"Andrey Remnev" is almost a perfect rhyme for "Andrey Rublev". It is not an attempt to praise or to joke. Such an association arose in my mi
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Bob Chaundy
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Jake Wood-Evans – Legacy and Disorder
Jake Wood-Evans – Legacy and Disorder Strewn around the floor of his Hastings studio are paper images, torn out of books, of many Old...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Feb 11
- 3 min
ZAT by Karim Abd Elmalak - Mixed media painting by Karim Abd Elmalak
“As in art, so in people,” is a phrase the artist, Karim Abd Elmalak, has expressed to define his latest upcoming collection. The beauty of
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jan 14
- 4 min
COLLISION mixed media paintings by Ahmed Farid
The animating concept behind Farid’s latest creative output has been his oscillating notions on the realities of conflict and competition ov
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Bob Chaundy
- Oct 15, 2020
- 3 min
Henrik Uldalen – Lethe
It’s a common theme in history that reactionary groups look back to a so-called golden age, believing that society’s ills will be cured if o
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
Sara Shamma – Modern Slavery
When Syrian artist Sara Shamma heard eyewitness reports of Yazidi women and girls being paraded on a platform by their Isis kidnappers in a
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julia_mji@me.com
- May 28, 2020
- 3 min
David Downes – Responses to Covid-19
Every major world crisis, be it war, financial meltdown or as now, global pandemic, is interpreted through the lens of artists of all genres
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julia_mji@me.com
- Mar 29, 2020
- 3 min
Hidden Identities
During his entire artistic career, Cairo-born artist Ahmed Farid has always had a special connection with his homeland, Egypt. His artworks
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jan 27, 2020
- 6 min
Ahmed Gaafary: From painting to installation and back
A young artist in the contemporary scene in Cairo, Ahmed Gaafari has had quite an extensive career. With over 90 exhibitions on
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jan 18, 2020
- 4 min
Justin Bower: A Satellite of Direction
In conversation with LA-based artist Justin Bower. 1. The first thing I want to ask you is: Art and The Existence of Content, what does...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jan 3, 2020
- 4 min
Bruce McLean – Five Decades of Sculpture, Part One 1967-1994
Sculptor, painter, ceramicist, performance artist, filmmaker, Bruce McLean’s career flits about in a variety of genres. He’s regarded as hav
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julia_mji@me.com
- Oct 29, 2019
- 4 min
Joshua Hagler – Chimera
Art review by Bob Chaundy Confusion, paradox, contradiction, illusion. These are the kind of abstracts that American artist Joshua Hagler...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Mar 27, 2019
- 2 min
Non-contemporary traditions
Vera Kochubey is a Russian artist living in Berlin. Kochubey has left her successful journalism career in Moscow and moved to Berlin to...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jan 15, 2019
- 6 min
Famous birthdays: January 15th
photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith Untitled, From the Williamsburg Housing Project Murals | circa 1938 Brooklyn Museum PAUL KELPE Paul Kelpe was...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jul 17, 2018
- 3 min
The Picasso-treatment
"Fight Club" “She ruined everything,” it reads, edged across John Paul Fauves’s painting Fight Club (2018), “and it made her very happy.”...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min
Oh you pretty things
Exhibition "Oh you pretty things", and absolutely stunning work by Belgian artist Stephan Balleux is currently on display at Patrick...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jan 8, 2018
- 2 min
Hossam Dirar: LE Cairo 1801
Hossam Dirar is an Egyptian contemporary artist from Cairo, Egypt, who currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Dirar’s work in...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Oct 20, 2017
- 2 min
East meets West: Alexander Kosolapov
Alexander Kosolapov, one of the most controversial and provoking Russian pop artists. He was born in Moscow, Russia in 1943 and...
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jul 5, 2017
- 2 min
Paintings by Irina Daylene
Irina Dzhalalyants (aka Irina Daylene) hails from a Armenian-Russian background. In her youth, while summering in their dacha in the...
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