Giving Harry Potter’s Wingardium Leviosa spell a run for its money, Japanese artist Natsumi Hayashi began uploading self-shots on the internet of her floating in mid-air in 2011. It’s not flying, it’s…
Art Tid Bits
From Kandinsky to Hadid, here you’ll find noteworthy takes, tid bits & discussions about international, classic, contemporary, local & unusual artists.
£1.5 Billion Under A Coat: A Heist That Led To Fame
It’s difficult to come across a person who doesn’t know of Da Vinci’s masterpiece; Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, but what most people don’t know is the reason behind it’s fame. The masterpiece owes it wor…
Rediscover Angkor Wat: A Symbolic And Architectural Enigma
Siem Reap isn’t the capital of Cambodia. It isn’t even a metropolis with towering skyscrapers. It is, in fact, just a rustic town with plenty of rice paddies and a muddy river. Then what i…
5 Boho Chic Decor Accessories To Funk Up Your Room
The long-standing fad, which we casually quote for fashion and style, transpired in the 19th century in Europe. Of course, it wasn’t a fad then, it was the way artists, writers, musicians and actors l…
Mandalas: Exploring The Buddhist Art Of Impermanence & Meditation
Quite unlike contemporary art created to please the eye and meant to outlive the artist, we explored the Tibetan Buddhist art of Mandalas (mon-dah-lah). The concepts around this art far outweigh the m…
Spontaneity in Photography: Learn Henri Cartier Bresson’s Style
The most thrilling photographs are the ones captured in a moment of spot, snap and click. All three in succession and in the right time span. Spontaneity has always been ‘in’. French photo…
Ballet: Another Name For Perfection
Often mesmerizing, the art of ballet is world-renowned for its complexity in technique and beauty in its simplicity. The image of a spotlight focusing on a ballerina with her glimmering tutu on a dark…
5 Of The Most Romantic Paintings In The World
Romance. It is depicted not just in grand notions or dramatic acts of love, it can even be the simplest of gestures. Acts in pursuit of romance can come from a bed of roses, a song or serenade to a si…
The Human Paintbrush: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Well, Manila born Danish performance artist, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen does that quite literally as she takes the role of a human-paintbrush as she flips her hair back and forth on a large-scale paper…
Zaria Forman: Art To Save The World
The daunting changes that global warming will bring us is a horror to think of. The consequences of global warming have been well documented by Hollywood in various movies over the years including The…
3 Christmas Decoration DIYs In Under 3 Minutes
Twinkling lights adorn trees, doors and streets and antique ornaments glitter on your wrists and inside your home. The warm and woody ambience of the holidays amidst chilly winters makes up a big part…
Have You Heard Of Bambi: Art Taking Over The Streets
WANTED by the cops, WANTED by the art community (in a completely different way) and renowned around the world for her skills – ‘Bambi’ has quite an exciting life. When the world slee…
To All the Artists, Writers and Musicians out there: Do Art for Art’s Sake
What’s your take on that? Does art have a purpose? Of course it does. But then again, why does it have to have a purpose? Why can’t art just be art? Like all things and like all people, ma…
A Word on Writer’s Block & How to Get Over It
The cursor blinks, and you look away from your screen. Your usual companion in expression, Microsoft Word, seems, at the moment, to be your most ardent enemy. Glancing back at the empty white space, t…
500 Days of Not Having Received a Greeting Card
What makes you nostalgic about the past? Looking at an old photograph? An old post or picture on Facebook or Instagram? Nowadays when we think of wishing someone, it’s all digital – whether it’s…
Artist Makes Paintings Bouncing a Basketball
Yong Hi, a Shanghai based artist, used a basketball dipped in red paint to create a portrait of NBA player Yao Ming. It began as a fun experiment but the video on YouTube went viral in days. Yong Hi d…
Beach Art: Etching Experiences on Sand
Andres Amador, a landscape artist, has an unusual way of expressing his life experiences. Amador carves sophisticated patterns on the beach sands to portray human experiences. The sand is his canvas,…
Artist Kills 200,000 Ants for Crawling Art
Chris Trueman wanted to revisit an early childhood memory of when he was 5. That was the first time, he says, he “intentionally tried to harm intelligent life”. He bought the ants from an ant farm, ki…
An Artist Pours His Blood into His Work – Literally
Vinicius Quesada, a street artist from Brazil, paints with his own blood. He says “there’s nothing satanic or spiritual about it.” He likes to add shock value to his artwork, and has a series called …
Puke Art: This Is as Weird as It Gets
Millie Brown, an artist who started with performance in Berlin, is now well-known for her vomit artworks. The artist, who has collaborated with Lady Gaga for a stage performance, drinks dyed milk and …
Evaristti Art: Would You Kill Nemo?
Marco Evaristti, Danish-Chilean artist, is best known for his controversial art pieces, one of which you can see above. The entire display consists of blenders with water and live goldfish swimming in…
Erotic Imagery in Art: Those Old Pervs
Titian’s Venus of Urbino, 1583, Uffizi Gallery, Florence The use of erotic imagery in art is not a new concept, and dates back to the Greek and Roman eras. During the Italian Renaissance, wealthy duke…