What You Need to Know to Become an Illustrator
The Internet and the availability of education (at least in developed countries) has made it possible for people to pursue whatever careers they want. A…
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What Ever Did Happen to Modernism?
By Karen Zouaoui What Ever Happened to Modernism? is Gabriel Josipovici’s rallying cry in the face of an overly conservative literary tradition in the UK.…
Connoisseurship and Condescension
By Michael Savage Some of the earliest art exhibitions gathered together selections of the greatest works they could find, without particular concern for coherence. The…
On Biography
By Miguel Fernandes Ceia William Gaddis’ attack on the institution and on the entertainment industry, in his posthumous novel, Agapē Agape, claims that there is…
A Return to Beauty and Civility?
By Valentine Rossetti The question of beauty in art has, over the past few years, come more and more into question. Both critics and philosophers…
Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World, by Gary Indiana
By Nicky Charlish The mountains of words that have been written on Andy Warhol rival the supermarket stacks of the soup cans which, via his…
Nostalgia and Newness: David Bowie Is, V&A, London
By Nicky Charlish Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David…
Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900, National Gallery, London
By Nicky Charlish The popular image of Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century is of a city of contrasts symbolized by the strutting…
Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now…
The “Black Square” by Kazimir Malevich
Modern art is often difficult to appreciate, at least for people who do not display an interest in visual arts such as graphics or paintings.…
Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints
This article [Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/10/who-says-michelangelo-was-right/]…
The Redemption of Saint Anthony
By Colin Dickey In the fall of 1849, Gustave Flaubert invited his two closest friends—Louis Bouilhet and Maxime du Camp—to hear a reading of what…
What Makes Franz Liszt Still Important?
By Leon Botstein Marking anniversaries of the birth and death of historic figures, particularly in music, is somewhat akin to commemorating annually the date of…
Machiavelli the Comedian
By Christopher S. Celenza “Comedian,” admittedly, is not the first word you associate with Machiavelli—and “funny” is not a word normally applied to Lucretius. And…
Picturing Don Quixote
Four hundred years ago, on April 23, 1616, Miguel de Cervantes died. In the prologue to his posthumously-published The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, he…
Robert Greene, the First Bohemian
The only known image of the dramatist, poet, pamphleteer, and initially unrepentant libertine Robert Greene is a woodcut from John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt, printed…
History of the Oscars
Hollywood produces dozens, if not hundreds, of movies annually. Although a significant part of them is meant solely for entertainment and possess little-to-no artistic value,…
The Mozart Effect
It is a well-known fact that listening to different kinds of music can evoke various feelings and moods in a listener. For example, listening to…
Summary of “Flowers for Algernon”
”Flowers for Algernon,” written in 1966 by Daniel Keyes, has rightly become one of the most well-known fantasy novels in world literature. Originally written as…
Picasso’s Painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
We can only imagine the impact that this life-size painting had on viewers 100 years ago. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” flaunts a brazen disregard for the…
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