Very recommendable!
Showing posts with label history of art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of art. Show all posts
Thursday, October 08, 2026
Friday, October 02, 2026
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Friday, September 25, 2026
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Friday, September 18, 2026
Tschabalala Self’s ‘Lady in Blue’ Storms London
Does this sculpture not represent if not amplify some stereotypes about black women?
The artist was certainly not the model for her sculpture (see picture below).
Artist Tschabalala Self unveils her artwork, Lady in Blue, on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in London, 2026
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
Tuesday, September 08, 2026
The Secret of the Mona Lisa Smile: Mystery Solved?
Recommendable, however only two segments are really interesting. First segment around 5-6 minutes and the last part starting around 8:30.
How much has been said and written about the Mona Lisa just over the last 1-2 hundred years! Amazing!
Tuesday, September 01, 2026
The Ambassadors: Great Art Explained
Very recommendable! A famous painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Yayoi Kusama: Great art Explained
Very recommendable! R.I.P.
I have to admit I was not familiar with her art until she passed away.
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Graffiti: A tool of resistance | Inside Latin America
Recommendable! It has a little bit of a leftist bias.
Tuesday, August 04, 2026
Monday, June 08, 2026
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Gaza’s Lost History on Display in a major international exhibition in Turin
This could be an interesting exhibition! However, from the article below I get the impression this is a pro Palestine (PLO/PNA) political statement, perhaps worse with antisemitic undertones!
"The project is a collaboration between Fondazione Merz, Turin’s Museo Egizio, and Geneva’s Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (MAH), with the support of the State of Palestine. It brings together around eighty archaeological artifacts dating from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period, placing them in dialogue with works by seven contemporary Palestinian and international artists. Together, the institutions frame the exhibition as both a scholarly undertaking and a public reflection on memory, identity, and responsibility. ...
For years, the name Gaza has been associated almost exclusively with bombardment, siege, hunger, and ruin [???]. The Turin exhibition seeks to recover a much longer, nuanced history. ..."
"... The project brings together a selection of over eighty archaeological finds from the MAH – Musée d’art et d’histoire of Geneva on behalf of the State of Palestine and the Egyptian Museum of Turin – dating from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period – and works by contemporary Palestinian and international artists Samaa Emad, Mirna Bamieh, Khalil Rabah, Vivien Sansour, Wael Shawky, Dima Srouji and Akram Zaatari. ..."
GAZA, the future has an ancient heart (original news release)
An iron age statuette of a woman with a tambourine, from between 800 and 601 BC, discovered in Gaza. (Source)
The exhibition in Turin includes ancient artefacts found in Gaza and new work from artists across the Levant.
Head with pointed cap, from approximately the 5th century BCE, discovered in Gaza.
Friday, April 24, 2026
Kakapel rock art timeline reveals 9,000 years of painters in Kenya
Amazing stuff! The abstract of this research paper is lousy and dilettante!
"A recent study ... presents the first millimeter-accurate recording of the paintings at Kakapel rock shelter in Kenya, linking the layers of rock art painted over thousands of years to at least three culturally and genetically distinct groups.
The combination of rock art analysis, aDNA, and excavation data makes Kakapel one of the most comprehensively understood rock art sites in eastern Africa. ..."
From the abstract:
"... first described the Kakapel rock art of western Kenya in 1977. ...
Fieldwork in 2011 was undertaken to ... further research at the site. This paper presents the first millimetre-accurate redrawing of the main panel at Kakapel and places the site within the broader context of eastern African rock art to propose an age and authorship for the different painted traditions represented there.
It thus builds on and extends current understandings of the rock art sequence of eastern Africa."
The rock art of Kakapel Shelter, western Kenya (open access)
Figure 4. Kakapel: redrawing of the images in Layer 1 (redrawn by Wendy Voorveld in 2012 and coloured for publication by Kgolagano Vena).
Figure 5. Kakapel: redrawing of the images in Layer 2 (redrawn by Wendy Voorveld in 2012 and coloured for publication by Kgolagano Vena).
Figure 6. Kakapel: redrawing of the images in Layer 3 (redrawn by Wendy Voorveld in 2012 and coloured for publication by Kgolagano Vena).
Figure 1. Map of East Africa showing location of Kakapel rock art site in relation to other sites and places mentioned in the paper.
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