Felix Nussbaum – Artist Profile
By Hannah Yael Rieger The Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum was born in 1904 in Germany to Philip Nussbaum, a proud German patriot, and his wife Rahel. He received […]
Category Archives: Historical
Wildfire’s Hidden Figures
By Maia Mathieu Edmonia ‘Wildfire’ Lewis might be the most important artist that you’ve never heard of. She was born to a Mississauga Ojibwe mother and an African-Haitian […]
The male chaperone
By Charlotte Lee That women are unappreciated in the world of art is not exactly groundbreaking news. Western art is traditionally the domain of white, upper-classmen and the […]
The problems of ‘outsider art’
By Lucie de Rondeau Noyer Since the label “outsider art” was coined in 1972 by art critic Roger Cardinal, it is generally agreed that such a category is […]
The mediating revolutionary
By Ciara Kummert It seems incredibly contradictory that an artist living in the nineteenth and twentieth century would have painted portraits for both the aristocracy while also being […]
The fetishisation of radical politics
By Maia Mathieu You know her unibrow, even if you don’t know her art. Since celebrities like Madonna discovered her art in the early nineties, Frida Kahlo has become a […]
Francisco Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War’ – REVIEW
By Will Abbott Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is considered to be the most important Spanish painter of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for his contribution to commentarial art – the summa […]
An ode to Brutalism
By Oisin Vince Coulter In the early hours of the 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in London. This fire resulted in an estimated 80 deaths and […]
Faces only a mother could love
By Alexandra Day. Babies aren’t inherently unpleasant looking beings. Sure, some might look a little wrinkly or bruised at first, but overall these little people are not known for their […]
The Ruins of Dublin, 1916 – Review
Eleanor Hughes reviews The Ruins of Dublin, 1916 – A Photographic Record by Thomas Johnson Westropp.
