Egon Schiele + Reading Friedrich Torberg: Young Gerber

For most of my student life, I was relatively relaxed about schoolwork and exams compared to my peers. I didn’t understand why my classmates were stressed with getting good grades. The only time I was stressed at school was when I was 17, at the end of my first year in junior college, when I spectacularly failed my…

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1925: When Art Déco Dazzled the World + Floating Palaces of Art Déco

We spent most of yesterday browsing comics, better known as “bande dessinées“ or “BDs” in France and Francophone Brussels, as AB wanted to check out “Les Cités Obscures“. Illustrated by François Schuiten and written by Benoit Peeters, “Les Cités Obscures” is a series of graphic novels depicting a parallel universe to Earth. The series features independent city-states…

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Women in Art + Félix Vallotton

Unlock Art: Where are the women in art? is the latest in a series of eight short films that has been keeping me busy at work. Produced by Tate in partnership with Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, the  Unlock Art film series was conceived to make visual arts more accessible, introducing topics such as the history of…

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