La casa de Asterión, by Jorge Luis Borges
Theseus and the Minotaur, mosaic In 1949, the Argentinian short-story writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges wrote a short story, La casa de...
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Bianca Mafodda
May 10, 2022
The myth of Hermes
Apollo and Hermes, Francesco Albani, 1635, oil on copper, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau, France Hermes was the God of...
Bianca Mafodda
Feb 14, 2022
Orpheus and Euridice
Orpheus and Eurydice, by Sir. Edward John Poynter, 1862, private collection Son of Calliope, the muse of Poetry, Orpheus bought music on...
Bianca Mafodda
Jan 24, 2022
Pandora's Jar
Pandora, by John William Waterhouse, 1896, private collection The myth we are about to tell has originally been told in the poem Works...
Bianca Mafodda
Jan 10, 2022
The myth of Icarus
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Joos de Momper the Younger (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum) Icarus was the son of a very talented...
Misha Capnist
Aug 30, 2021
Apollo
Apollo Sauroktonos, (detail) After Praxiteles CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons The cult of Apollo was imported directly from ancient...
Misha Capnist
Jun 30, 2021
Theseus and the Minotaur
Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur intertwine their adventures in a maze of betrayals, bestial appetites and human sacrifices. One of the...
Misha Capnist
Apr 30, 2021
The Myth of Prometeus
Who was the father of Men, Zeus or Prometheus? Eh, hard to say, really. The myths, on this issue, often get confused and confuse our...
Misha Capnist
Mar 30, 2021
The Myth of Arachne
Today’s myth brings us to Colophon, in the region of Lydia, where a young and talented weaver, who went by the name of Arachne, lived....
Manuel Puig
Jan 25, 2021
Five Events to Look forward to in 2021
Slavery Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 12 February-30 May 2021 Enslaved man working on the fields (around 1850) by an unknown artist The...
Manuel Puig
Dec 30, 2020
Five Spectacular Art Events that defined 2020
Pandemic Art Faire Sarah Fox (SARAH FOX | pandemicfaire.com) Obviously not an exhibition that existed during the pre-COVID-19 era, the...
Misha Capnist
Nov 10, 2020
Perseus and Medusa VS Medusa and Perseus
The most beautiful stories in the world are those that explain the genealogy, nature and the existence of things. We bring you today the...
Misha Capnist
Oct 29, 2020
Queer Art. An Idea.
As it was conceived in antiquity, art represents reality, its evolutions, the glories of nature, feelings, and emotions. As a...
Manuel Puig
Sep 25, 2020
Woman Who Paint Women
Who better to depict women than a woman? Women are complex beings, full of faces, emotions, dreams, and desires. Sometimes a simple look...
Misha Capnist
Aug 27, 2020
ANONYMOUS ICONS: THE GRAFFITI ARTIST BANKSY
Political activist, street artist, vandal, or genius? The many facets that characterize the “Banksy phenomenon” are constantly under the...
Manuel Puig
Feb 10, 2020
When Artists Work With Nature
Land art and environmental art are experienced in ways wholly different from interacting with traditional forms of art. The term...
Manuel Puig
Jan 12, 2020
Zero Group: 7 Major Members
Zero Group: 7 Major Members The Zero Group was a loosely knit group of artists that emerged in Germany and spread to other European...
Misha Capnist
Oct 10, 2019
The Underwater Sculptor par Excellence: Jason deCaires Taylor in Seven installations
Jason deCaires Taylor is an English sculptor specializing in the creation of contemporary underwater sculptures, which develop into...
Manuel Puig
Sep 27, 2019
Great Indian Actors to know and to be known
In a globalized period, a list of five well known Indian and two raising stars in in the art system. Sir Ben Kingsley was born as Krishna...
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