Like every magazine that respects itself and wants the best for its readers, we too have made a list of our top ten picks! This time, we chose to present ten European artists that you have probably never heard of, but really ought to know… We are confident that this list will increase your personal

The potential of the Israeli art market excites Sarah Peguine, art consultant and co-founder of Art Source, the first and only online English language platform devoted to discovering and purchasing contemporary Israeli art. “There’s not an established tradition of creating or collecting art here, like in Europe, because the country is relatively young. And the

An exhibition in the European Parliament is so outrageous, it’s tedious. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE {T} here was a time when anything viral had to be handled with medication, rest, and a good-faith effort not to infect others. Then came the 21st century, and we decided to eliminate its derogatory meaning. It’s trendy to be viral,

In 2022, big global art market players such as Pace Gallery and Lehmann Maupin announced major expansions in their exhibition space. The year also saw the inaugural Frieze Seoul art fair, the first Asian event held by Frieze, a rival to Art Basel which also stages art fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles.

Mona Lisa Leaves the Louvre (1911) On August 21, 1911, an amateur painter set up his easel near the spot where Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”—one of the most famous works of art in the world—hung in the Louvre. To his surprise, the mysterious woman with the haunting half-smile had vanished. French detectives searched for

Few members of EU Parliament protest sexual depictions of Jesus’ Apostles By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, May 06, 2023 European national flags in front of European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. | Getty Images Controversy has erupted in the European Parliament over a photography exhibition by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson that includes a

Born on April 18, 1889, in Remagen am Rhein into a Catholic family, Karl Nierendorf was educated in Cologne. He worked as a banker before World War I, but his career was disrupted in 1913 by the social upheaval in the Weimar Republic. One of his acquaintances, an art collector, introduced him to the Swiss-born German

The story of Varian Fry, a US journalist who helped some 2,000 of Europe’s imperilled artists, writers and refugees escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, has inspired the new Netflix series “Transatlantic”. FRANCE 24 takes a look at a hero who risked his life many times over before falling into relative anonymity. The new Netflix series “Transatlantic” dramatises the

It is no secret that Surrealism influenced the development of Abstract Expressionism. Martica Sawin’s rich study, Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School (MIT Press 1995), charted in great detail the significant cultural exchange that occurred between 1938 and 1947, when Parisian artists fleeing Nazi Europe made their home in Manhattan. However, what has

Men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus, Agamemnon I Exile has always been a powerful theme in myth and history: Adam was exiled from Eden, Moses from Israel, Dante from Florence.  Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the center of creativity in the arts, and many painters gravitated there, discovering new forms