Evolution of African art

Why African art was created to be lived, experienced and shared rather than simply displayed

After the death of the author and the reader

From Roland Barthes to AI-generated culture, a reflection on what happens to meaning when both authorship and readership begin to disappear

The Virtual Art Academy and modern art education

A personal journey that evolved into a comprehensive online approach to teaching painting

Antony Gormley and what holds us together

An exploration of body, architecture, and the fragile foundations of human connection

Art at the altar

Pisces Full Moon

Come and have a go if you think you’re art enough

From Beuys to Cattelan, this essay explores why the question “Is it art?” says less about the artwork than about our need for certainty

Directionless and the art of uncertainty

At Hauser & Wirth Menorca, Rashid Johnson explores disorientation as a creative force in contemporary life

Hirohiko Araki and color without rules

Rethinking identity, composition, and expression in "JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure"

Yilin Rebecca Sun on Vessel

The artist and curator reflects on clay, collaboration, and the connections that shape our shared future

The Savitsky State Museum of Art

Art, resistance, and cultural memory in the heart of the desert

The ceiling murals of Virupaksha Temple

How myth, kingship, and devotion were immortalized in Hampi’s 16th-century temple art

The contemporary art market as oligopoly

Concentration, gatekeeping, and institutional power leave most artists subsidizing a system that rewards only a select few

Kim Nam-joon and the art of attention

A transnational curatorial vision bridging Korean and Western art through contemplation, theory, and cultural dialogue

Jean-Marie Appriou and the art of passage

From Dante and ancient Egypt to fire and bronze, the artist reflects on sculpture as a threshold between worlds

Ecem Dilan Köse: architectures of emergence

Digital environments, artificial life, and the ethics of perception

Tbilisi’s defining art market moment

Georgia’s first international contemporary art auction and the emergence of a new global cultural market

Repatriation and the politics of cultural belonging

Colonial legacies, cultural justice, and the future of global heritage

Embodied practices in contemporary art

How living between London and Paris reshaped my understanding of art, fashion, and embodied expression

Travels in Hyperreality at MACA

Spanish modern art, intensified perception, and the museum as a site where representation exceeds the real

Embers / Braci: between fire and memory

Nikhil Chopra and Uriel Barthélémi explore rhythm, fragility, and endurance

The power of purity

Artists’ fascination with virginity

Michelangelo and the Dream of the Sistine

An illustrated children’s book about Michelangelo and his challenging work in the Sistine Chapel

Ellsworth Kelly: monumental space

Shaping perception and movement through color, form, and scale

"Four Twenty PM" at the National Gallery of Thailand

A.T. Apichart makes time look and feel benign, so that it doesn’t

The opening thought

On the transformative journey of thought in the creative process

Who draws the line?

Artistic freedom, legal boundaries, and the ethics of offense

The future isn’t what it was

How markets, machines, and accelerated taste have shattered the old promises of contemporary art

Urfa man: sentinel of the sacred past

Spiritual power of ancient art in the gaze of humanity’s oldest watcher

The art of Kendell Kerwin in a distracted age

A New York artist reclaiming attention, humanity, and depth in a world where images disappear in seconds

Art as placing, displacing, transforming

Process, perception, and the artist within the relational field

Art, nature, and the post-human condition

The tension between traditional landscape art and the rise of artificial aesthetics