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The Hidden Art of Europe’s Only Indigenous People

From ancient Arctic patterns to contemporary graffiti—inside the world of Sámi art you’ve likely never seen. How is it possible that Europe’s only Indigenous people remain so invisible? In January 2025, I traveled through Lapland in Finland—starting in Rovaniemi, moving north to Saariselkä, then on to

The Mathematical Mind: How Art Emerges from Patterns and Processes

From Greek proportions to GANs, art emerges when minds—and machines—refine patterns through iterative feedback, showing how disciplined mathematics blossoms into creative expression.

What if Hitler Had Been Accepted to Art School?

A Visual Journey Through the Boundaries of What Is Not Art When does an image cease to be art? Is it a matter of lacking innovation, vision, or is it the nature of the creator that disqualifies it? It is widely known that before Adolf Hitler ( became the dictator history

Between Fiction and Innovation: Art as a Laboratory of the Real

What if art stopped being a space of representation and became a tool for manipulating life itself? Today, some artists no longer limit themselves to painting, sculpting, or filming: they program genes, cultivate cells, modify DNA, 3D-print organs, or envision futures where humans share their wombs with pigs. This is

MOBA Boston: Is bad art still art?

I recently visited the Museum of Bad Art in Boston—a place that feels like the artistic equivalent of a karaoke bar: bold, unapologetic, and gloriously off-key. In spirit, it echoes the Salon des Refusés, the legendary 1863 exhibition authorized by Napoleon III after public outcry to see the works

What Is Art? The WYSIWYG Effect in Contemporary Art

A lot of contemporary art today operates on a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) basis. The artwork, no matter how abstract, uncanny, or seemingly nonsensical, is often presented without explanation from the artist. The viewer is left with an image, an object, or an installation that resists

Kristy Flower : sculpting with energy

Kristy Flower is an Italian artist based in London, known for her artistic focus on motifs such as the vagina and the vulva, inspired by women and mother earth and her independent brand that specializes in vintage reworking, painting and restoration. Our first encounter was through her sculptures. While strolling

Rhythm 0 – Between Subject and Object

How does "Rhythm 0", by exploring the chosen and ambivalent vulnerability of a woman’s artist, reveal profound societal phenomena?

"Art for Art" or "Art for art market"?

It is the first time in the history of art when the art market is more important than the art itself. If the 19th century was all about “Art for art”, the 20th about “Art as a weapon against totalitarian politics”, the 21st century is all about “Art for art market”.

Art & Politics: The fall of the Divine Empire

Medieval pictorial art is almost exclusively religious. The sacredness of the painting is represented, through the golden background, as symbol of impermissibility, and the absence of facial expression, as being timeless and aspatial.