After decades without carrying out one of his famous large-scale interventions, the Bulgarian artist takes up again one of the projects he imagined with his partner Jeanne-Claude to make it a reality at last.
Irene Iribarren, the painter who, as she herself affirms, “enters History with the characters she paints“, is a Spanish portraitist of great international prestige. In her almost 50 years of career she has embraced many artistic techniques. She herself reveals…
The English writer gives free rein to his passion for painting and French culture in his latest book, where he reviews, describes and analyzes with brilliance some of the most important works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
“Ensalada de muerte con salsa rosa” Unlike most people, I have no trouble admitting that I enjoy talking about myself. However, dear art addict, I do not intend to bore you with an unemployment-office resume going on about…
His videos on YouTube, where he analyzes and gives his opinion on what he calls "hamparte", have set a trend. Now, the artist and doctor of Fine Arts gathers his content in a surprising book.
The National Portrait Gallery in London will open on 20 October "Francis Bacon: Human Presence", it will be the largest exhibition of portraits by the Irish artist carried out by the museum. Among the more than 55 paintings from the 1950s onward that will be exhibited, we will be able to see some as significant as several of his self-portraits, or the paintings of Isabel Rawsthorne, Henrietta Moraes and Lucien Freud, and of his lovers Peter Lacy, George Dyer and John Edwards.
The Hellenist, recently inducted into the Royal Spanish Academy, proposes a journey of approach to classical Greek culture in his latest book. A text full of history and beauty, that hooks you from the first page.
To have true knowledge of things, that is, to be able to explain Nature and human life, we must turn to their origin, what the ancient Greeks called arche, and seek the causes and reasons of those processes. And what better option than the one offered by the Archaeological Museum of Madrid, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the museum's reopening, than to begin with that primordial time
The philosopher and journalist Wolfram Eilenberger portrays the experiences and reflections of four titans of world philosophy in a book that explains the foundations of the European metaphysics of the era.
The latest book by the writer and academic tells the story of a man who waits for a woman. The reversal of roles, uncertainty and the question of subjective perception are the foundations of this gripping tale set in Lisbon.
The Musee d'Orsay celebrates its 40th anniversary with a major show devoted to Renoir's most luminous years, those from 1865 to 1885. Fifty paintings bring together the universe of pleasure, love and human conviviality that the painter built before his Impressionist crisis, a declaration in favor of a happy modernity.
Inspired by a famous drawing by Max Peintner, The Unending Attraction of Nature, the artist Klaus Littmann will recreate the dreamlike setting of the image in the Worthersee Stadium (Klagenfurt, Austria).
On 24 February, Ivorypress opened a major exhibition with the title BOOKS BEYOND ARTIST: Words and Images, where the visitor can see that the book forms part, on an equal footing, of what is considered a traditional work of…
"Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angels" has just opened in Florence, an important exhibition by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). His monumental work is confronted with the Renaissance spirit of the Palazzo Strozzi. This palace of Florentine pietraforte stone, inspired by Greco-Roman architecture, will house, until 21 July, a show curated by the historian and art critic Arturo Galansino, composed of paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs.
The work in question is one of Claudel's emblematic pieces. It depicts three figures: a kneeling young woman, "the imploring one", who stretches out her arms in a desperate gesture toward a man of virile build dragged like a wave by an elderly woman with the power to pull him away from her. This composition, like any work of art, lends itself to multiple interpretations, just as plural are the gazes of the one who observes.
After the recent death of the sculptor Martin Chirino, the Galaxia Gutenberg publishing house publishes the conversations held between Chirino and the journalist Antonio Puente over the last three years.