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Kehinde Wiley’s Archeology of Silence, Fondazione Cini
“That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown...
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Beyond the Canvas
- May 7, 2022
- 2 min
Ukrainian artists: Nikolay Lukin
I had been following Nikolay Lukin on Instagram for some time, and this morning he followed me back. Дякую, Микола. His latest post is a...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
Luca Maria Castelli "Bologna sola" - Galleria Forni, Bologna
The first lockdown was nothing short of surreal. And although we were all at home and terrified of not knowing what the heck was...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 24, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Maria Kulikovska
"Mariupol is always covered with smog. On the other side of the sea is occupied Crimea - my home. 20 km away in the east, the war...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Kinder Album
"There will be a painting that shows our victory, for sure." - Kinder Album (interviewed by Bird in Flight) The truth is we do not know...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Artem Humilevskiy
"During the quarantine period, I began to create staged self-portraits at home. In the photo, which was the beginning of the series, I...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Artem Volokitin
Artem Volokitin was born in 1981. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, home to 1.4 million people and less than...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Marina Skugareva
There are moments in life when our fear is such that we scramble for ways of taming it, in the hope that this crippling fear will somehow...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Cops and lovers
Today Instagram is aflood with red hearts, declarations of eternal love, schmaltzy quotes and unmissable promotions. And while swathes of...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
Appropriating Jacopo Pontormo is a really bad idea
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Apocryphal quote The history of modern and contemporary art is littered with instances of...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 20, 2022
- 2 min
The return of Jan van Huysum's Vase of Flowers
The Vase of Flowers by Jan van Huysum is one of the best still lifes that the Amsterdam-born artist produced between the end of the XVII...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
The universality of misogyny
"When I went to New York in 1992, I recognized that there was a genre called installation art, and had an idea that I will pop out from...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 30, 2021
- 2 min
Throwback to Rudolf Stingel at Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Current rabbit hole update: scandals and crimes in the art world, of which I am delighted to inform you there is an abundance of. One...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
In Memoriam - Wayne Thiebaud: An Ode to Cake
"The whiteness of meringue becomes for me of great poetic preoccupation; it's like snow, like frost ... like ... purity.'' - Wayne...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
Drunk on art.
Whether it’s the first one or the latest of many, a visit to Florence’s Uffizi is bound to leave you breathless. Such are the quality and...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 12, 2021
- 1 min
Personal protection: America's love story with firearms
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
On World AIDS Day
"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live." - Robert Mapplethorpe In this powerful self-portrait Robert Mapplethorpe looks...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
Domenico Gnoli at Fondazione Prada, Milan
“I always use simple elements, I don’t want to add or subtract anything. I never even wanted to deform either: I isolate and I represent....
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Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
A museum for change: the Museum of Homelessness, London
From the Wunderkammers of Renaissance to this day, the Global West has a museum for everything. From sex to death, from vaginas to...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 21, 2021
- 1 min
Photo print fundraiser in support of women journalists in Afghanistan
Like many, I have been following the recent events unfolding in Afghanistan. I have mostly been feeling sad and powerless while thinking...
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