During my recent visit to Oslo’s National Gallery, I found time to “break” my complete and undivided attention to Edvard
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Edvard Munch: Alpha og (and) Omega
“Sickness and insanity were the black angels that guarded my cradle” Edvard Munch, personal manuscript. Background Edvard Munch is one of
Continue readingVoyage to Cythera: A film by Theo Angelopoulos
Angelopoulos’ movie is not a journey to a destination. It is a journey to infinite emptiness. Spiros is a
Continue readingΓλωσσολογικον πονημα επι του “Σεβαστου” και των παραγωγων του
“Η Γκρέτα, καταφανώς εν μεγάλη διεγέρσει διατελούσα, χωρίς την παραμικράν προφύλαξιν, ανέσυρε εν ριπή οφθαλμού το φόρεμά της, και, αποκαλύπτουσα,
Continue readingPainting London’s Waterloo Bridge
Introduction It was 1995 and I was living in Kingston upon Thames, a stone’s throw from the river. My job
Continue readingTwo Masters of Light: Claude Lorrain and J.M.W. Turner
An enormous deep-red sunset over a stormy sea, an indication of an approaching typhoon.A detail from JMW Turner’s “Slave-Ship”. Painting
Continue readingRenato Guttuso: pictor diabolicus, “devilish painter”?
I was introduced to the work of Renato Guttuso back in 1996, when Whitechapel Gallery in London exhibited some of
Continue readingThe Sum of all Evil (2012-13), an installation by the Chapman Brothers
In London’s idyllic Sackler Gallery one can see on display the Chapman Brothers’ masterpiece “The Sum of all Evil” (December
Continue readingThe diasappearance of the body from the work of Sarah Lucas
I recently visited a gallery in London, where works by Sarah Lucas are exhibited. I have written about Sarah Lucas
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Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski) revisited
Parenthesis: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a Balthus Exhibition “Cats and Girls“(September 25, 2013–January 12, 2014).
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