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Steve McCurry’s monsoon photos from India & beyond – Devastatingly real

Photography / 7 minutes of reading
Steve McCurry is no stranger to success, having built a name for himself as one of the world’s most respected photographers. He has won numerous international awards and acclaim for his consistent and impactful repertoire and has sold books in the millions across the world. In particular, some of his most talked-about works are his […]

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Jorge Méndez Blake – Watch the tremendous impact one book can have

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
The Castle by Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake, a mixed media conceptual artist, debuted in 2007. It featured a brick wall that was created by carefully arranging and stacking bricks over each other. The wall was made without mortar, and in the middle, a version of Franz Kafka’s The Castle rested crushed by the extreme

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See how Peter Kogler’s hypnotic installations transform rooms

Architecture, Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Peter Kogler is a renowned artist from Austria that currently works and lives in Vienna. Kogler is best known for his different psychedelic room installations. Through his paintwork and his intricate projections, he transforms ordinary looking rooms and spaces such as lobbies, galleries, and transit centers by making them look twisted, warped or distorted, which

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John Feely’s Outsider – Harsh Mongolian landscapes

Photography / 2 minutes of reading
Photographer John Feely embarked on a trip to discover the otherworldly landscapes of Western Mongolia and came back with fascinating works. The emerging Australian photographer was based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for the duration of his project and his allegorical approach to photography has helped him to quickly create a name for himself as a respected

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What makes Vienna’s State Opera Safety Curtain unique?

Installations / 11 minutes of reading
Safety Curtain is an ongoing exhibition series taking place in the Vienna State Opera, Austria. Conceived and initiated by museum in progress in 1998, Safety Curtain has converted the firewall between the stage and the auditorium into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary artists every year. The Vienna Opera has been hosting art shows since

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Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles: Thousands of bicycles transformed into sculptures

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading
Bicycles have always featured in Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s installations. The very first time that Ai used bicycles was in his installation known as Very Yao in 2008. As the years have passed, his use of bicycles has only gotten grander as is evident in his piece titled the Forever Bicycles. In Forever Bicycles, Ai

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Philippe Chancel & Eerie North Korea – A look behind the curtain

Photography / 2 minutes of reading
Philippe Chancel’s photographs from North Korea are simply remarkable. Chancel joins the ranks of the few photographers in the world that have actually managed to document the impenetrable nation of North Korea. For more than half a century, this enigma of a country has been the personification of a rogue state; North Korea is an

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Who is artist Filthy Luker?

Installations / 5 minutes of reading
Filthy Luker, otherwise known as Luke Egan, is a mixed-media artist from Bristol, England. He is known for his signature style of creating gigantic and outlandish inflatable sculptures that are typically installed temporarily in different parts of the world. Some of these works include traffic-stopping giant banana peels and outrageous colorful tentacles bursting from buildings.

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Tomás Saraceno’s In Orbit – A seemingly impossible installation

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
A massive installation by Tomás Saraceno titled In Orbit has to be one of the artist’s most notable and successful installations. At a height of more than 20 meters, Saraceno suspended a mesh construction within which audiences could move weightlessly on the net. The net construction, accessible on three levels, was designed to resemble a

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Why does Lara Almarcegui create massive piles of rubble?

Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Spanish born Lara Almarcegui who currently lives in Rotterdam has always had a deep curiosity for examining processes of contemporary transformation that are brought about by the social, political and economic transformations in society. Since the early 1990s, Lara has examined urban areas that most artists choose not to focus on, such as rubble from

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People Architecture Office & their giant Chinese character installation

Architecture, Installations / 2 minutes of reading
In 2015, a Chinese studio known as People’s Architecture Office made waves on art and architecture media when they used metal air conditioning pipes to create large-scale Chinese characters on the front exterior of the Tabular Baitasi Visitor center during the Beijing Design Week. The Tabular Baitasi Visitor center has long been used to host

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Steve McCurry’s magic India moments – Glamorous & worrying

Photography / 6 minutes of reading
Photographer Steve McCurry has been traveling to various parts of the globe photographing and capturing different subjects and people. His photography has led him down hidden pathways and streets, searching for what he calls the magic moment when color, light, and emotion work together in perfect harmony to create a beautiful picture. His search is

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I-Hsuen Chen – Homelessness & the sense of having a home

Photography / 3 minutes of reading
I-Hsuen Chen is a photographer, artist, and filmmaker that was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan but is now based in Brooklyn, New York. As a photographer, Chen is well known for surveying and photographing foreign objects, such as garbage, as the main subjects of his photographs. I-Hseun’s ‘Still Life Analysis II’ project In Still

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Lucio Fontana’s concetto spaziale – Mesmerizing neon installations

Installations, Light Installations / 10 minutes of reading
The Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana dedicated his entire artistic career to exploring the concepts of space, light, and void as well as the cosmos through the use of an assortment of materials such as plaster, stones, ceramics, paint, and cement. In 1946, he founded the Altamira academy in Argentina and, along with a few students

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Zhang Huan in suit made from raw meat (video)

Performances / 3 minutes of reading
Zhang Huan is one of China’s best known conceptual and performance artists. In his sculptures and paintings, he references the history of his home country. As such, his pieces contain components of political, religious and intellectual messages and anonymous portrait and landscape scenes. Most of his works are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, while some

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s Head On – 99 wolves crash into a glass wall

Installations / 6 minutes of reading
Berlin, Singapore, New York, Bilbao’s Guggenheim, and Brisbane are just a few of the locations in the world that have had the pleasure of experiencing Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation Head On (2006). For his dramatic and impressive installation, Cai, who resides in New York, chose to fit 99 life-like stuffed wolves into a glass wall. The

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North Korea’s Mansudae Art Studio & their overseas projects

Sculptures, Statues / 20 minutes of reading
Artwork from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has always been a trademark for modern socialist realism. Although North Korea is well known for being the most secretive nation in the world, the largely unknown nation is certainly not shy when it comes to publicizing their statues, monuments, grand festivals, and celebrations. In particular, a

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