"I'm dreaming of a book on Matisse colour." These words were spoken to Matisse by the publisher Tériade on 20 August 1940. Seven years later, the book Jazz was published, an artist's book that is incredibly joyful, despite the turbulent times out of ...

Thirty thousand brown envelopes hidden under the floorboards of an apartment for 35 years, bound by rubber bands and ordered by period, place and type of film. Each contained a negative inside a tiny paper sachet. Written on each envelope, in ...

The Contemporary Art Collection of "la Caixa" Foundation will be bringing to Cordoba a significant selection of works by 18 artists from Spain and abroad which were created in the ten-year period between 1983 and 1993. Titled 1983-1993. A ...

Four stories of four women who wear wigs. One of them is accused of terrorism, and has lived in disguise for 30 years. Another has lost her hair to chemotherapy. The third is a practicing Muslim who wears a wig instead of a kerchief. The fourth is a ...

Botany and conflict; scientific outlook and political agenda; classification and exclusion systems; botanical taxonomy and exploitation of natural resources. The validity of these concepts, which have been coupled since the times of the conquest and ...

A drawing of a hand that draws another hand drawing... In 1948, Maurits Cornelis Escher drew two intertwined hands that represented infinity, the time that never ends. This is one of the many optical illusions invented by this master of impossible ...

"Do you suffer from 'periodical' intellectual sadness? Aesthetic depression, fatigue, aversion toward life, manic depression, congenital mediocrity, gelatinous imbecility, diamond kidney stones, impotency or frigidity? Take Dalinal, the artificial ...

Concern with establishing man's evolutional line has been a constant in our history and new findings often cast doubt on certain aspects of human evolution. What does seem clear though is that Earth's process of hominisation and humanisation began ...

Nikos Navridis (Athens, 1958) is one of the leading exponents of the new generation of Greek artists. He represented his country in the international biennials of São Paulo (1996), Istanbul (1997), Santa Fe in New Mexico (1999) and Venice (2001), ...