Renato 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

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The 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

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The 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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The Crouching Venus at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

Some time ago I wrote about “A crouching Aphrodite in London“, a sculpure I saw at the British Museum. It

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The painter Francis Bacon on Crucifixion

Introduction Crucifixion is the subject that attests to the fragility, the futility, the horror and at the utter impossibility of life. Live is

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1001 Ways to Die – (10) Ginette Neveu, French Violinist (1919-1949)

Edith Piaf wrote of Neveu in her autobiography, The Wheel of Fortune: “I would have traveled thousands of miles to hear the

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The Nereid Monument at Xanthos, Lycia, Minor Asia

This monument is a tomb, built around 380 BC by Greek architects and sculptors, for a king of Lycia (in

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A crouching Aphrodite in London

I was in London for a few days and had the opportunity to visit the British Museum. This post is

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Blue Velvet: A “Fluxus Eleatis” Discourse

IN DREAMS, Roy Orbison A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle

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