The Greek painter who changed the art world

El Greco’s “Portrait of an Old Man”, believed to be a self-portrait, 1595. Credit: public domain The Greek painter El Greco is one of the best-known artists in the entire history of Western art, as his unique, romantic and awe-inspiring works have influenced a large number of painters over the past five centuries. Although... Read More

The Baku Book Center presents a book by the English writer [PHOTO]

December 2, 2021 2:15 p.m. (UTC + 04:00) 805 By Laman Ismayilova The Baku Book Center presented a book by famous English author and painter Charlie MacKesy. The book “The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse” has been translated into Azerbaijani. The edition was published on the initiative of the Vice-President... Read More

Baku Book Center hosts presentation of book by writer Charlie MacKesy, translated into Azerbaijani (PHOTO)

BAKOU, Azerbaijan, December 2 Tendency: A presentation of the book “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” by famous English author and painter Charlie MacKesy, translated into Azerbaijani, was held at the Baku Book Center, Trend reports on December 2. According to the information, the edition was published on the initiative... Read More

Quebec writer Marie-Claire Blais, once enfant terrible of French-Canadian fiction, has died at the age of 82

Revolutionary Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, formerly known as enfant terrible of French-Canadian fiction, died in Key West, Florida, at the age of 82. News of his passing on November 30 has been confirmed by his English-language publisher, House of Anansi Press. Blais was born in Quebec in 1939. Her family was not wealthy... Read More

Tony Woodward’s vibrant sculptures aren’t just Tasmanian landmarks, they’re his laughing legacy

It put Sigmund Freud and Leon Trotsky in a car together in the suburbs and a smiling king on the side of one of Tasmania’s busiest highways. Tony Woodward’s original mosaic and concrete sculptures can be seen across Hobart and the upstate, from Crawfish to Revolutionaries to Fog Personified. The artist and educator died... Read More

‘The Electric Life of Louis Wain’ inspired by a real painter of cats

He was the cat’s meow. One hundred years ago, Louis Wain transformed the humble feline from a vermin catcher into a beloved beast with his whimsical drawings of anthropomorphized cats. Her cute kittens and cigar-eating kittens – sometimes done in black ink, sometimes with electric neon lights – were throwing snowballs at each... Read More

Signs writer launches booming side unrest during pandemic

“My Economy” tells the story of the new economic normal through the eyes of those trying to make it happen, because we know the only numbers that really matter are your economy. Nan Parati, left, holds a sign with Lauren Haydel, who helped start the independent Parati business. (Courtesy of Parati) Because many... Read More

The Nobel Prize for Literature goes to a black writer for the first time since 1993

Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. “For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the plight of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,” the Swedish Academy announced Thursday morning. LATEST NEWS: The 2021 #Nobel prize in literature is awarded to... Read More

A forgotten flower painter, resuscitated

In George Agnew Reid’s 1889 painting “Dreaming”, the model is his wife, but she is also an artist. We don’t see the face of the now almost forgotten painter Mary Hiester Reid as she leans over a fireplace in their shared Paris studio, but the glowing embers light up her long apron and... Read More

Writer Hilton Als goes to great lengths as curator

Extract from “Untitled: Silueta Series” by Ana Mendieta (1978) Courtesy of Karma The Conservatives occupy a difficult position in terms of reputation. Their task of creating an artistic experience using the work of other people can make them sound like DJs in the art world. Yet even the most prominent conservatives are denied... Read More

Felicia Pride, writer and director of “Really Love,” on How Wash, DC inspired the love story

* Kofi Siriboe and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing are the stars of the MACRO romantic drama “Really love.“ The film tells the story of an emerging black painter named Isaiah (Siriboe) living in newly gentrified Washington DC on the dawn of a booming career. He meets Stevie (Wong-Loi-Sing), a law student whose ambitions do not... Read More

‘An Owl, a Garden and the Writer’, ‘Victim’ Win in Karlovy Vary

Innovative, diverse and personal stories on Monday won the Eastern Promises Industry Program awards at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, taking top honors in three sections focusing on emerging filmmakers in the narrative and docu genres. Karlovy Vary industry chief Hugo Rosak said Eastern Promises’ decision to allow fiction and non-fiction films... Read More

The legacy of painter, writer and landscape designer Skip Wachsberger blossoms in the Oriental Gardens

The rarest magnolias in Charles Dean’s garden were the size of pencils when he and her late husband, Clyde “Skip” Wachsberger, planted them 16 years ago. The two so-called Silver Parasol magnolias – a hybrid that combines the magnificent scent of Asian magnolias with the showy blooms of American varieties – were a... Read More

How Brie Ruais uses her own body to shape her clay sculptures and the sounds of the desert that motivate her

For every work of art that Brie Ruais in fact, she starts from the weight of her body in the clay, giving a new meaning to the term “life-size” sculpture. The Brooklyn-based artist pushes, pulls, and scrapes clay against the floor or wall, using her body as the primary tool in her unusually... Read More

A gifted writer returns with an extremely poignant novel

This novel has been a long time coming. Carolyn Ferrell first appeared on the radar screens in 1997 with “Don’t Erase Me,” a book of stories, many about the spiritual if not material resources of underachieving but vibrant and intelligent young people on the streets. It was a good start. One of the... Read More

Patricia Reilly Giff, writer of children’s books “Polk Street”, dies at 86

Patricia Reilly Giff, a prolific children’s author whose work was driven by the idea that remarkable stories could be drawn from the lives of ordinary people, died on June 22 at her home in Trumbull, Connecticut. She was 86 years old. The cause was cancer, said her daughter, Alice O’Meara. Ms Giff, who... Read More

Hancher’s “Wellspring” Fish Sculptures Inspire Children’s Book by Iowa City Author and Illustrator

Fish statues line the sidewalk leading to the Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City on Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Andy Abeyta / The Gazette) Statues of fish along the sidewalks are seen at the Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City on Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Andy Abeyta / The Gazette) A series of fish statues... Read More

‘Clown, teacher, writer’ | Commonwealth Magazine

On one level, the poem is a description of a day in the circus: coming to town, pitching the tents, rehearsing, playing and shutting down at night, getting up at dawn to start another day of travel. But on a metaphorical level, the poem tells the story of Genesis, in which the circus... Read More

Best-selling author returns with touching new novel about a writer and the woman whose life-changing stories

NEW YORK, May 18, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Far from home, in a picturesque Costa Rican fishing village, a man glimpses the heart of the book he struggled to write in the captivating stories of a young woman. Told by a novelist forced to earn a living as an exterminator, STRANGE LOVE... Read More