Mixed Media
The Long and Colorful History of Persian Art. Top Story - September 2026.
A Colorful Existence Whether it’s the deep blue tiles on a tomb for poets, the intricate weaving and decoration on a bright red rug, or the flowing calligraphy inside a miniature Quran, Persian artistry never seizes to mystify and astound those who view them.
By Dean Traylorabout a month ago in Art
Peter Brötzmann: The Visual Force of Free Jazz
Peter Brötzmann is usually introduced through sound: the blast of his tenor saxophone. But his visual art was never a side project. It came from the same restless impulse as his music—an urge toward intensity, freedom, and forms that resist easy interpretation.
By Marco Vanoppen2 months ago in Art
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) , elected a Bard of Cornwall, is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. At the forefront of international modern art, deeply spiritual, and passionately engaged with science and technology change.
By Raymond G Taylor2 months ago in Art
The Pond Where Silence Never Stays Quiet
In the eyes of his fellow water-sprites, Brcallnik was an absolute embarrassment, a failure to his kind. While the other water-sprites spent their afternoons meticulously polishing their clay jars, proudly showing off their grim collections of drowned human souls, Brcallnik’s shelves stood completely bare. He had no interest in collecting souls. Instead, he collected something completely invisible, yet infinitely heavier. He collected human wishes. Every single morning, he would sit on a mossy rock, his webbed feet submerged in the chilly current, simply listening. The river would deposit the echoes of human destinies into his palms: a young girl’s terror of confessing her love, the forgotten laughter of an old man, or the midnight anxieties of the village miller, who heard a threat of ruin in every splash of the wheel. The other sprites mocked him relentlessly. "You can't eat wishes," they would laugh, splashing him with muddy water. But Brcallnik would only shake his head, smile softly beneath his green beard, and whisper, "Perhaps, one day..."
By Lenka Čihařová2 months ago in Art
Tea set by a suffragette . Top Story - June 2024.
Pankhurst is a name well known to the history of women’s suffrage. Who hasn't heard the name Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women organisation campaigning for the right to vote? The group that helped to achieve the right to vote for women in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918. Some know of her daughter Christabel, both being honoured by the Pankhurst memorial in Victoria Palace Gardens, London, right next to the UK Parliament buildings. Sylvia Pankhurst is notably not included in the monument. Why? Because she split with the WSPU to campaign against Britain's entry into First World War.
By Raymond G Taylor3 months ago in Art
