You are here: Homepage Tag fine arts Articles The exhibition “Unravel” was first presented at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. From fall 2024 it is on view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Photo: Jemima Yong / Barbican Art Gallery Art l International A show of powerful textile art in Amsterdam For a long time, textile art was belittled as a women’s craft. A new exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows the subversive potential of this art form By Helen Jennings 10/27/2024 Photo: Arlene Mejorado Gender roles | Mexico “It’s okay to be flamboyant if you’re macho” The Texan Mexican artist José Villalobos focuses on the clothing of Mexican Norteño culture. It’s extravagant and camp but is also seen as the epitome of masculinity Interview with José Villalobos 09/14/2024 Guests at an exhibition during a power outage. Photo: Oleksandr Popenko / Mystetskyi Arsenal Museum | Ukraine Exhibition in the light of a flashlight “Mystetskyi Arsenal” in Kyiv hosts exhibitions, theater shows and festivals. Museum manager Olga Zhuk describes the race to put up exhibitions between power outages, and why it is important to retain spaces for reflection 02/20/2023 Viewpoint | International What couldn’t you do without? What do you need in life? From Canada to South Africa to Pakistan, people around the globe explain what they can’t live without. Here Fatma Aydemir and T. C. Boyle say what is indispensable By Arshak Makichyan, Adrienne Clarkson, T.C. Boyle, Lerato Mogoatlhe, Fatma Aydemir, Mohsin Hamid, Simon Bingo 01/09/2023 Versailles castle is all about grandeur: a glimpse into the royal bedchambers Photo: DeAgostin / Getty Images Minimalism | International Keeping it simple What makes a building a beautiful structure? Ornamentation on the front? Or is a building beautiful if it houses as many people as possible? Can we separate the aesthetic evaluation of a building from its construction circumstances and the ecological and human price it cost? By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen 01/09/2023 This artwork no longer exists. A friend of Salwa Rahen photographed it during an exhibition in 2021. Rahen herself was forced to delete all photos of her artwork Photo: privat Visual arts | Afghanistan “I had to destroy my own artworks” Artist Salwa Rahen describes destroying a lifetime of work and why she can't imagine herself working again under Taliban rule. A conversation. Interview with Salwa Rahen 10/01/2022 Antony Gormley: CAVE, 1986, Lead plaster, 195 x 56 x 33 cm Photo: Stephen White Life underground | Contemporary art “Ancient forces are at work” The British sculptor Antony Gormley has been exploring caves since childhood. A conversation about fantasy, fears and the traces of our ancestors that he has encountered underground Interview with Antony Gormley 01/07/2022 Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a biotechnologist, author and freelance curator. From 2023, he will be director of the House of World Cultures in Berlin Photo: Alexander Steffens Art and objects “People preserve stories in objects” Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflects on the meaning we give to the things we make. A conversation Interview with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung 10/01/2021 Fiction | Ghana The king’s granddaughter In her debut novel, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim defines both her European experience and her Ghanian roots By Thomas Hummitzsch 07/01/2021
The exhibition “Unravel” was first presented at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. From fall 2024 it is on view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Photo: Jemima Yong / Barbican Art Gallery Art l International A show of powerful textile art in Amsterdam For a long time, textile art was belittled as a women’s craft. A new exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows the subversive potential of this art form By Helen Jennings 10/27/2024
Photo: Arlene Mejorado Gender roles | Mexico “It’s okay to be flamboyant if you’re macho” The Texan Mexican artist José Villalobos focuses on the clothing of Mexican Norteño culture. It’s extravagant and camp but is also seen as the epitome of masculinity Interview with José Villalobos 09/14/2024
Guests at an exhibition during a power outage. Photo: Oleksandr Popenko / Mystetskyi Arsenal Museum | Ukraine Exhibition in the light of a flashlight “Mystetskyi Arsenal” in Kyiv hosts exhibitions, theater shows and festivals. Museum manager Olga Zhuk describes the race to put up exhibitions between power outages, and why it is important to retain spaces for reflection 02/20/2023
Viewpoint | International What couldn’t you do without? What do you need in life? From Canada to South Africa to Pakistan, people around the globe explain what they can’t live without. Here Fatma Aydemir and T. C. Boyle say what is indispensable By Arshak Makichyan, Adrienne Clarkson, T.C. Boyle, Lerato Mogoatlhe, Fatma Aydemir, Mohsin Hamid, Simon Bingo 01/09/2023
Versailles castle is all about grandeur: a glimpse into the royal bedchambers Photo: DeAgostin / Getty Images Minimalism | International Keeping it simple What makes a building a beautiful structure? Ornamentation on the front? Or is a building beautiful if it houses as many people as possible? Can we separate the aesthetic evaluation of a building from its construction circumstances and the ecological and human price it cost? By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen 01/09/2023
This artwork no longer exists. A friend of Salwa Rahen photographed it during an exhibition in 2021. Rahen herself was forced to delete all photos of her artwork Photo: privat Visual arts | Afghanistan “I had to destroy my own artworks” Artist Salwa Rahen describes destroying a lifetime of work and why she can't imagine herself working again under Taliban rule. A conversation. Interview with Salwa Rahen 10/01/2022
Antony Gormley: CAVE, 1986, Lead plaster, 195 x 56 x 33 cm Photo: Stephen White Life underground | Contemporary art “Ancient forces are at work” The British sculptor Antony Gormley has been exploring caves since childhood. A conversation about fantasy, fears and the traces of our ancestors that he has encountered underground Interview with Antony Gormley 01/07/2022
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a biotechnologist, author and freelance curator. From 2023, he will be director of the House of World Cultures in Berlin Photo: Alexander Steffens Art and objects “People preserve stories in objects” Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflects on the meaning we give to the things we make. A conversation Interview with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung 10/01/2021
Fiction | Ghana The king’s granddaughter In her debut novel, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim defines both her European experience and her Ghanian roots By Thomas Hummitzsch 07/01/2021
