How American Gothic Became an Icon
BBC - Could the painting possibly be a paean, even in its mildly ironic way, to small-town America, to those simple, decent values ascribed to the US heartland? Or is it, as so often assumed, a straightforward ...
Kiev exhibition that questioned the results of Maidan revolution vandalised
The Art Newspaper - Over a dozen masked assailants raided an exhibition at Kiev’s Visual Culture Research Center on Tuesday, 7 February, and vandalised an exhibition that questioned the achievements of Ukraine’...
7 Perfect Video Games Everyone Should Play at Least Once
PC - It's 2017, and video games have been around commercially now for almost 46 years. Over that time they've changed from single-screen games with primitive graphics into almost photorealistic virtual worlds f...
How to Star in a Virtual Reality Movie
PC - If you're not into video games, you don't need a virtual reality headset, right?
Wrong, according to a burgeoning group of filmmakers and performance artists. Their creations, many of which were screene...
Robots: a 500-year quest to make machines human
DW - Instead of focusing on how they're made, "Robots," the London Science Museum's new blockbuster exhibition, looks into why humans have always been obsessed with creating an automated version of themselves.
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Watch the Oldest Known Erotic Film, a Victorian-Era Striptease
Hyperallergic - In the 1896 “Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir,” a heavily clothed woman enters a room and, button by button, fastener by fastener, drops her modest petticoats and corset until she’s wearing just a ...
The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism
Hyperallergic - PARIS — L’Esprit du Bauhaus (“The Bauhaus Spirit”) is a serenely spirited show that reintroduces us to the many and enduring innovations of Walter Gropius’s German art school. As many of the thi...
Dead Sea Scrolls mystery unfurls as scientists find hidden cave
cnet - An exciting archaeology discovery announced this week hinges not only on what scientists found, but on what was missing. - read more...
Gerhard Richter, savior of contemporary painting, turns 85
DW - From photo-like paintings to out-of-focus works, he is consistently inconsistent and beyond his time. Gerhard Richter, at 85, claims to have to system - but has become one of the world's most expensive art...
Hilda Kleyn
Deep Purple, 2016, oil on canvas, 39"x 39"
Earth, 2016, oil on canvas, 39" x 39"
Fall, 2016, oil on canvas, 20"x 20"
Grey, Fall, 2016, oil on canvas, 39"x 39"
Move, 39" x 31"
Purple, 2016, ...