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Wangechi Mutu: Reimagining the Body and the World Through Hybrid Visions

Wangechi Mutu: Reimagining the Body and the World Through Hybrid Visions

Artist Portrait • Aug 8, 2025 • 5 minutes read
Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American artist known for her powerful visual language that blends mythology, feminism, and Afrofuturism to explore identity, the body, and cultural history. Her multidisciplinary work—spanning collage, sculpture, video, and performance—has earned her international acclaim and a prominent place in major art institutions worldwide.
Dreams, Memory, and Abstraction: The Psychological Worlds of Qiu Xiaofei

Dreams, Memory, and Abstraction: The Psychological Worlds of Qiu Xiaofei

Artist Portrait • Aug 4, 2025 • 5 minutes read
Qiu Xiaofei is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his introspective paintings that blend figuration and abstraction to explore memory, the subconscious, and psychological landscapes. His work captivates audiences with its emotional depth, layered textures, and evocative visual language.
Must-See Exhibit of the Season: Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty

Must-See Exhibit of the Season: Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty

Art News • Aug 4, 2025 • 3 minutes read
“Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a major retrospective showcasing the Brazilian artist’s vibrant, layered paintings that blend abstraction with rich cultural references. The exhibition celebrates her unique fusion of color, form, and rhythm, highlighting her role in redefining contemporary abstraction.
Interview | Magdalena Oppelt: I started taking a painting class at around the age of 50

Interview | Magdalena Oppelt: I started taking a painting class at around the age of 50

Meet and discover • Aug 1, 2025 • 6 minutes read
"After a difficult period in my life, I started taking a painting class at around the age of 50, as a way to treat myself to something beautiful and inspiring. The positive experiences I had there had a lasting impact on my life and have regularly provided me with new creative impulses, which to this day remain an important part of my life."...
Myths, Landscapes, and Surreal Disruptions: The Enigmatic World of Ged Quinn

Myths, Landscapes, and Surreal Disruptions: The Enigmatic World of Ged Quinn

Artist Portrait • Aug 1, 2025 • 6 minutes read
Ged Quinn is a British contemporary artist known for merging classical landscape painting with surreal, political, and historical disruptions that challenge traditional narratives. His richly detailed works explore themes of memory, ideology, and decay, earning him international recognition and a place in major collections and exhibitions.
Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum

Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum

Art News • Aug 1, 2025 • 4 minutes read
“Amy Sherald: American Sublime” at the Whitney Museum marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York, showcasing her powerful portraiture that redefines the genre. Featuring iconic works from the past decade, the show highlights Sherald’s signature grayscale figures and her exploration of identity, dignity, and visibility.
Must-See Exhibit of the Season: Yoshitomo Nara - One Foot in the Groove

Must-See Exhibit of the Season: Yoshitomo Nara - One Foot in the Groove

Art News • Aug 1, 2025 • 4 minutes read
“Yoshitomo Nara: One Foot in the Groove” at the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery is the artist’s first UK institutional solo show, showcasing over 100 works that blend childhood innocence with punk rebellion. The exhibition reveals how music, memory, and emotion shape Nara’s distinctive visual language across paintings, drawings, and sculptures.
Alessandro Deshon: A powerful voice in Central American neo-expressionist art

Alessandro Deshon: A powerful voice in Central American neo-expressionist art

Artist Portrait • Jul 31, 2025 • 4 minutes read
Born in Managua in 1993, Alessandro Deshon is a self-taught artist whose powerful work fuses raw emotion, personal symbolism, and neo-expressionist energy. Infused with love, memory, and Central American identity, his painting is striking in its sincerity, visual density, and rich message. Between controlled chaos and hidden tenderness, each canvas is a cry from the soul—both intimate and universal. A work to discover, to feel... and to follow closely.
Farhad Moshiri: Pop Culture, Tradition, and the Glitter of Iranian Identity

Farhad Moshiri: Pop Culture, Tradition, and the Glitter of Iranian Identity

Artist Portrait • Jul 28, 2025 • 6 minutes read
Farhad Moshiri is a pioneering Iranian contemporary artist known for blending traditional Persian aesthetics with Western pop culture to explore themes of identity, consumerism, and cultural contrast. Through his use of materials like glitter, embroidery, and found objects, he creates visually striking, ironic works that have earned him international acclaim and a prominent place in global art discourse.
Interview | Bettina Axel: Experimenting with Colors and Textures

Interview | Bettina Axel: Experimenting with Colors and Textures

Meet and discover • Jul 22, 2025 • 5 minutes read
"I've always enjoyed working creatively and craftily. As a teenager, I designed and sewed my own clothes. Later, I collected antique furniture, refurbished and restored it. Creating something with my own hands, being creative, has always brought me great joy, and it is a wonderful balance."

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