“He is perhaps the greatest artist of the moment, and you're not realising it”. Two years before the death of Mario Sironi (Sassari, 1885 - Milan, 1961), the Italian painter received the highest praise: the…
The Caribbean he misses, his youth in Brooklyn, his present in London; hip hop, Joseph Beuys, his grandmother's tablecloths… Alvaro Barrington's artwork stirs together a whole pile of influences to produce…
“I climbed down to where the statues were and my father said straight away: “That's the Laocoön Pliny talks about”. So they dug the hole wider so they could pull the statue out. As…
An avant-garde oasis in the most vintage city in Europe: the Guggenheim Museum in Venice is a must-see for any art lover who finds themselves in the Italian city and starts…
Every day hundreds of people walk past Botticelli's La Primavera in the Uffizi Gallery, admiring its beauty and sighing at its mystery. Because La Primavera is wonderfully beautiful… and…
Madrid. 13 July 2018. The Loop stage at Mad Cool Festival. Massive Attack's set is running late… and later. Everyone's looking at everyone else fearing the worst. The band's most…
“I've never, never had success. I'm still looking, and that's what keeps me trying and finding something that just gives you a thrill”. That's how David Lynch described his…
Josefa de Ayala Figueira was born in Seville in 1630, but it wasn't long before she left the Andalusian city to return to Portugal, where her father came from. Baltasar Gómez Figueira had moved to Seville with the…