Category:Art

The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda

Mali Olatunji and Paget Henry (Hansib Publications Limited, Hartford, Hertfordshire, 2014)

Art
Reviewed by Teodros Kiros This remarkable book, which elegantly blends commentaries and interpretations of “painterly photographs”, as the authors dub their work, is a feast for the imagination and a fountain of aesthetic thought. The photographs are made and not…

Why this is not a pipe

Monica Fernandez

Art
(The Treason of Images – René Magritte) The first time I saw this painting of the surrealist artist René Magritte I was in my last junior high school year. It provoked a lot of confusion in me. It has nothing…

Mexico: A Surrealist Country.

Monica Fernandez

Art
Many people know that the art movement of Surrealism began in Europe and that the most famous surrealists are European as well. But what few people may know is that the grand majority of them fled to Mexico because of…

Soundreaming

Ewa Doroszenko & Jacek Doroszenko

Mixed Media
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You’ll walk the same streets, (…) Constantine P. Cavafy     The Soundreaming is an interactive Internet presentation that takes the form of an…

3+1=54+1=55. Letter of the Year: A multimedia sculptural installation

María Magdalena Campos-Pons & Neil Leonard

Mixed Media The Italian Feature
53+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year is a multimedia installation about home, migration, the necessity of finding and redefining the meaning of permanency and locality. Birdcages were used by emperors and common men to capture beauty and to dream of freedom. From Yoruba deities, to Leonardo da Vinci, to space travel today, men and women have always dreamed of flight as embodying a lightness of being.

Art of Absence

Simon Patch and Mary Sarpong

Art
Cartoon by: Simon Patch and Mary Sarpong

Boston Sequence

Alexandria Pierre Etienne

Photography
Street photographer Matt Stuart inspired me to observe the streets of city life in a different way and to approach a subject/scene unnoticed without disrupting the motions of life. But the most challenging of all was patience. Figuring out the right time to capture a moment is both exciting and challenging. Sometimes the most magical things happen and you just come back home empty handed.