by Brian Thurogood | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
Italian artist Peter Demetz brings ordinary wood to life with his incredible, hand-carved figures. The sculptures, which vary in size from about 20 inches to nearly 50 inches tall, feature men, women, and children standing still against a plain, sometimes-colored...
by Brian Thurogood | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog
Norwegian artist Lene Kilda creates figurative sculptures inspired by the emotions and personalities of children. Believing that body language is “their purest form of communication,” Kilda visualizes each childlike pose with cement-sculpted hands and feet, and...
by Brian Thurogood | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
Painters today have more pigments to choose from than any other artists in history. They can buy traditional, historical varieties that Rembrandt would recognize, such as siennas and ochres, or 20th-century innovations like phthalocyanines and quinacridones—pigments...
by Brian Thurogood | Oct 31, 2022 | Blog
2 is the ongoing finale video which marks the end of Be Takerng Pattanopas’s AR installation Mortalverse at the circular cloister of the Great Stupa of Wat Prayoon Temple in Bangkok. It addresses the artist’s and his life partner’s mundane realities. Mortalverse AR...
by Brian Thurogood | Sep 22, 2022 | Blog
Looking at the list of artists who have appeared most often in global art biennials since the last Documenta, in 2017, it becomes clear the extent to which the Biennial World functions as its own, freestanding universe. It has its own concerns, and its own star...
