Pablo Picasso would have been 145 earlier this week. Some are taken from us much too soon.
Continue readingPicasso’s Eyes, Mougins
Post Category → Art
Seven Street Art Snaps From Bologna
Bologna is sometimes called La Rossa (“the Red”), a nickname rooted as much in its terracotta-and-brick architecture as in its tradition of left-wing and anti-fascist politics. It is also a university town, where those warm, terracotta-coloured walls serve young creatives as an inviting public notebook for stencils and scrawls and paintings and tags.
Continue readingLouisiana Museum of Modern Art – Notebook and Snapshots
In the Giacometti Hall at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, pictured above, Alberto Giacometti’s “Walking Man” appears to be entering from the lush woods beyond the glass. The image doesn’t quite do justice to the work—or to its stunning setting beside the Garden Lake, just a few metres away.
It’s an apt image for a museum, located in the quiet town of Humlebæk just north of Copenhagen, that feels less like a conventional gallery and more like a journey through art, architecture and landscape.
Continue readingHeroes of the Planet, Nice
The best public art involves and invites visitors to interact with it even if it’s just a part of a greater background. Here, it acts as a strong reminder that the triple planetary crisis –climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss– is but a quick glance way.
Continue readingAfter Les Rencontres d’Arles, in 18 Photos
With Gandhi, in Geneva
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated 78 years ago today. Some are taken from us much too soon.
Continue readingRostro Sobre Hoja
Soldiers and Street Art, Bogota
Oil and Violence
Donald Trump said it plainly, straight into the cameras that were streaming his words around the world: the move against Nicolás Maduro is an oil grab. And, most often throughout the history of the last two centuries, where there is oil, there is violence. Too often the two are inextricably linked.
Continue readingHoliday Lights, Nice – 2025
Great Reads: Naomi Klein – Surrealism Against Fascism in Equator
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches in The Great War captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. In Surrealism Against Fascism, Naomi Klein asks: what can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide. Fascism is roaring back in the twenty-first century and, in a sickening twist, it is rhetorically… Continue reading
Bird Photographer of the Year – 2025. Some spectacular inspiration from the 33,000 images entered. Here are the winners: take a look at them all.
The European Goldfinches in the unharvested sunflower fields by Mateusz Piesiak blew me away. I will never bike or drive past an unharvested field of any kind again.
The title of Bird Photographer of the Year went to Liron Gertsmen for ‘The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring’ which shows a Magnificent Frigatebird silhouetted against a total solar eclipse. Gertsmen said he spent “well over a year” planning the image, which was taken off the coast of Mazatlán, Mexico. A video of the moment the photo was taken is below.
20 images from ‘Picasso and Paper’ – Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025
Cleveland Museum of Art – December 2019
‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ at the Tate Modern – Notebook and Image Gallery
Injustice Case by David Hammons
This is Injustice Case (1970) by David Hammons From the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” at the Tate Modern in London, an examination and celebration of the work of black artists produced from 1963 to 1983.
The piece, painted in 1970, was created in response to Chicago 8 trial of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, who was gagged and chained to his chair for much of the courtroom proceedings.
Eye-catching and eye-opening, and most importantly, still very fresh and relevant.
London, August 2017
“Werken”: Bernardo Oyarzun’s Mapuche Messenger
Slovenian artist on hunger strike to protest lack of arts funding and ‘bureaucratization of culture’
This is Miha Turšič, a Slovenian artist who today spent his 15th day on a hunger strike to protest what he calls the “bureaucratization of culture” and the lack of state funding for the arts in this small alpine nation. In my experience –mainly through the stories of exasperation shared by colleagues and friends who… Continue reading
The Irresistible Creepiness Of Urs Fischer’s Lamp Bear
The first thing you’ll notice after clearing immigration in the recently-opened Hamad International Airport in Doha is Lamp Bear, a 23-foot (7m) high canary yellow bronze sculpture that takes pride of place in the center of the massive duty-free hall. Tipping the scales at about 35,000 pounds (15,875 kg), it was bought at a Christie’s… Continue reading