Zohra and the Cages
Tortured and left to die in a hospital for releasing pet parrots. It’s the impetuous and emblematic image of the instinct of freedom, in a world that begins to definitively … Continue Reading Zohra and the Cages
Rivulet
All the most enchanting and frightening stories of our childhood are set in woods and forests, animated by the sound of the rivulets and the looks of the creatures populating … Continue Reading Rivulet
I Am Sorry
Human degeneration is at a new all-time high, this time at the expense of a two months pregnant elephant who died after eating a pineapple containing firecrackers, in Kerala, India. … Continue Reading I Am Sorry
We Can’t Breathe
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever George Orwell from 1984 It is not the first and will not … Continue Reading We Can’t Breathe
A World Metamorphosis
It is so strange and terrible to see how the latest world events have brought the reality told by Mana Neyestani — that of his country, Iran — closer and … Continue Reading A World Metamorphosis
Male and Female
It look a long long long time Now I’m so happy I found you There is no doubt that since birth, and even before, something in our private parts seems … Continue Reading Male and Female
TeleVision
In my opinion, television is stronger than all this, and I’m afraid that its mediation will end up being everything. The power wants us to talk in a certain way, … Continue Reading TeleVision
Fake News
It seems that fake news has always existed — on October 30, 1938, actor Orson Welles caused panic in America by announcing to audiences, in a chilling radio performance, that … Continue Reading Fake News
Quarantine Mummy
Like many mothers around the world, Thaïs had to share her quarantine days with kids — “too many”. This inspired her a daily Quarantine series of drawings, as a diary … Continue Reading Quarantine Mummy
From the Asylum
You laughed at him, you thought he was nothing more than a raging lunatic with the same obsessions, the same faces of a Charles Manson. A spoiled and unscrupulous daddy’s … Continue Reading From the Asylum
Cartoons of Life
Dalcio Machado started drawing very early, influenced by his semi-artist father. In fact, the father took care of the race horses of Fazenda Rio das Pedras, in the district of … Continue Reading Cartoons of Life
Frida
Unlike some other famous artists, everybody seems to know Frida’s troubled life, also because of the books, documentaries and movies about it. Born in July 1907, to a German father … Continue Reading Frida
A Covid World
Everything’s going to be back to normal real soon. A phrase that actually scares everyone, especially nature that for some time had finally taken a breath of fresh air. Maybe … Continue Reading A Covid World
An Ideal Home
From the 1920s until his death in 1944, William Heath Robinson drew a series of scenes for magazines and books, inspired by the rapid expansion of housing in interwar Britain … Continue Reading An Ideal Home
The Kiss
The meeting of lips par excellence since 1908, The Kiss is an oil painting, with added silver and gold leaf by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. Love, intimacy, and … Continue Reading The Kiss
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Known as “the Mona Lisa of the North”, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring over the years has become one of the most iconic artworks in history. Very little … Continue Reading Girl with a Pearl Earring
