Claudia Moscovici
13.04.2020
A Surrealist Futurism: The Art of Adam Martinakis
The cosmopolitan artist Adam Martinakis was born in Poland, grew up in Greece and lives in England. His style combines a unique mixture of Surrealism and Futurism and his genre can be described [...]
06.04.2020
Cum scriu scriitorii ficțiune
Marching to the beat of your own drum Într-un articol precedent, intitulat „De ce scriu scriitorii”, am elaborat o parte dintre motivele pentru care scriitorii scriu ficţiune, trecând în revistă [...]
30.03.2020
The New Art Nouveau of Richard Burlet
In 1899, the controversial Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, also associated with the Art Nouveau movement, displayed his starkly sexualized painting, Nuda Verita, with a famous quotation [...]
23.03.2020
The Armenian genocide and „The Promise”
As Peter Balakian points out in the Preface of his book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian genocide and America’s response (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), the Holocaust had a significant [...]
16.03.2020
Expressivity: Art and Emotion
We tend to associate art and emotion. The Romantic notion of art as the product of an emotive, sensitive and inspired artist who creates masterpieces to move the public has not altogether [...]
09.03.2020
The Vilnius Jewish Ghetto
A few weeks after his daughter’s wedding, on September 23, 2001, Joe Sabrin’s father, Abrashe Sabrin, passed away. He was one of the few Holocaust survivors of Vilnius (Vilna). As he was going [...]
02.03.2020
Panodyssey and the love of classical music
The founder and CEO of the new international cultural website Panodyssey, Alexandre Leforestier, first achieved great success in promoting classical music. In the early 2000’s, he helped take [...]
24.02.2020
Carole Feuerman’s Art: Verisimilitude, Aesthetic Value and Artistic Freedom
Carole Feuerman‘s life-like–yet larger-than-life sculptures–are known throughout the world. During the 1970’s, she was a pioneer of Hyperrealism, along with Duane Hanson and John De Andrea. Her [...]
17.02.2020
The importance of culture to our cultures
What is culture? Culture can mean 1) the practices, values, beliefs and mores of a given society or a “way of life” and 2) various fields in the arts and humanities, including literature, art, [...]
10.02.2020
Small town America and the Banality of Racism
Never in my life did I think that my small town, Saline Michigan, would make national and international news, much less for something as negative as racism. Originally a tiny farming community, [...]
