How fame has changed for artists since Antiquity
From the end of Antiquity (5th century CE) until about 1250, image-makers were more or less anonymous craftspeople. Traditional images from the Byzantine world dominated art in this period. When it came to art, what mattered was the skilful repetition…
Portraits of a Pioneering Generation – collaborative approach reveals the people behind the paintings
Scotland’s first Black professor, Sir Godfrey Palmer, described the Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation exhibition as “an acknowledgement that we are the same people from the past … who wouldn’t have [had] our portrait put up in this way”,…
Unmasking Banksy – the street artist is not one man but a whole brand of people
The graffiti artist known as Banksy might be unmasked in an upcoming defamation case over his use of Instagram to invite shoplifters to go to a Guess store because it had used his imagery without permission. The case could be…
controversial delayed Tate show asks ‘what would it be like to be evil?’
American painter Philip Guston’s (1913-1980) work was filled with creative innovation. But the paintings he is best known for are the series of cartoonish hooded figures begun in the late 1960s. Guston called these painted characters “hoods”. They represented members…
Swiss-Haitian artist renegotiates colonial history in activist exhibition
In 2008, Sasha Huber, a Swiss-Haitian multimedia visual artist based in Finland, began a project to challenge the problematic legacy of Swiss-American glaciologist and natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Agassiz was a devout creationist who lectured on his belief in…
What David Hockney’s new exhibition can teach us about finding beauty and joy this winter
David Hockney’s new exhibition finds beauty in the most local of places: the home. His new series, 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures, is about the pleasure of looking intensely at what is in front of us. At home in…
superb restoration but painful stories remain untold
Ghana’s national museum has reopened its doors after a seven-year closure to allow for major renovations. The museum was first opened in March 1957 as part of the celebrations marking the transition from colonial rule to independence. The opening also…
Estos son los 10 coches más baratos que puedes comprar
El coche más barato que puedes comprar hoy día en nuestro país cuesta menos de 13.000 euros Si necesitas un vehículo, y lo único que te importa es el precio, te mostramos los 10 coches más baratos que puedes comprar en España en 2023. Y ya te avanzamos…
Estos coches de lujo de 2023 no vendidos ya casi se regalan
La recurrente escasez de chips semiconductores ha hecho sorprendentemente difícil encontrar un coche nuevo. Algunos de los modelos más populares del mercado escasean, y algunas características populares están actualmente fuera de línea. La compra de segunda mano es una gran…
Antes de acostarse, la suegra pone un diente de ajo en el retrete
Mi suegra solía tirar ajos por el retrete antes de acostarse. Cuando vi el resultado, decidí hacerlo yo también. Quiero compartir con vosotros un consejo poco habitual para el baño y el retrete. Hace tiempo que se sabe que la…
