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
La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha is the result of Pieter Hugo’s four trips to Mexico over the last two years, each spanning close to a month, with the photographer travelling from the industrialised … Continue Reading La Cucaracha
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
The Blue House
La Casa Azul — The Blue House — was the place where Frida Kahlo came into this world, lived, and took her last breath, in 1954. She moved out, in … Continue Reading The Blue House
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
Pop Space
When your mind is like a sponge for stuff like art and pop icons, just like Fab Ciraolo’s, you can’t get enough, you want more and more. Born in Santiago, … Continue Reading Pop Space
Riding or Art
Beauty and miseries of the human/animal soul in a digital-romantic key. The female figure as the primary source of inspiration, with all its irresistible sensuality of forms and chameleon quality. … Continue Reading Riding or Art
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
Classical Office
A few years ago, Alla saw her colleagues talking in the beanbags of their office after a hard working day, and she thought “They look exactly like characters from my … Continue Reading Classical Office
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
Banksy with a Mask
Judging by what he’s doing around the rooms of his apartment, even Banksy seems to be following official advice from the British government to stay at home, nice and easy. … Continue Reading Banksy with a Mask
