Few topics in contemporary art get as little consideration as the titles of artworks. Especially since titling your piece untitled, seems to have become the norm. Which is not due to laziness. Because, how do you title a self-portrait when you … Continue reading poetically untitled

A perfect question to be asked on #internationalwomensday Evidence proves the famous urinal Fountain, proposed as the start of conceptual art, attributed to Marcel Duchamp, was actually created by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Why aren’t art history books and museums … Continue reading spread the word, r mutt is a woman

The life story of Peggy Guggenheim fires the imagination. It seemed to be exciting AF. Travelled the world, collected art, opened galleries and museums, smuggled art to the US and obtained one of the most exquisite collections of modern art. … Continue reading the cray life of an art addict

Questions such as *why is there always someone having massive diarrhoea in the university library* and *what is art* aren’t as simple to answer as it might seem. I recently read that Phil Collins (the visual artist, not the originator … Continue reading jaw-dropping art materials

On June 29, 1969 police unexpectedly and brutally raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. After years and years of violent discrimination, the LGTBQ+ community decided to fight back and organised protests. Within … Continue reading watershed

“Through my work and fascination with women I offer a different perspective onto female sexuality, which is full of resilience, kindness, humour and seductiveness.” Any pose you can think of, Simone Steenberg has captured. Seriously.  Dazzling work with playful explorations … Continue reading otherworldliness

It’s hard to imagine there was ever a time where the world was not oversaturated with images. No billboards, advertising, 9gag, Instagram, photobooks, or whatsoever. Think about it, how normal we find it to come across images. And how normal … Continue reading surreally

In this age of capturing every small detail of one’s life, celebrity worshipping, and commodification, there is so much insignificance. It’s an excellent source for art. Incorporating the “low” as a subject matter has been around for a hundred years. Dadaists, such … Continue reading high ‘n lo combo

What happens when an artist paints on a photograph? On a philosophical level, this has far-reaching consequences. No longer it’s part of a series that can go on to infinity. It becomes a unique artwork. And this is precisely what artist Alice Quaresma wants. Quaresma takes these pictures from an archive she put together over the last fifteen years. A frequently recurring subject matter is the beach of Rio de Janeiro, righther hometown that she left in 2003. It is a complicated emotional relationship since she takes the photos as an outsider; they are renewing the memories of an immigrant. … Continue reading to break the edition

One of the most horrific persons in the art world (I will not name names) once told me that the only way to make an exhibition a success is to either include a big shot artist or to make it … Continue reading a critique of the spectacle