Phyllis Galembo‘s pictures reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo’s work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States.
Lebensreform
Monte Verità
I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.
Rebel Wisdom
Sensemaking in the Time of Chaos
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Exploring
micro worlds
After so much exploring the inner worlds and energetic realms, back to matter.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Forces in Nature and Humans
Georgia O’Keeffe is mostly known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms and flowers at close range with which she sought to share the beauty she witnessed.
Karolina Daria Flora
Weaver of umbilical thread
Karolina’s mission is the transmutation of reality, her work far more than mere adornment — she weaves the umbilical thread that reminds us of dimensions we have just forgotten about.
Robert Steven Connett
Miracles of life on display
The feelings provoked by Robert Steven Connett’s paintings vary widely. Some will see mostly the beautiful and the interesting, and others will see only the unsettling.
Oscar Reutersvard
The Impossible Figure
Oscar Reutersvärd is widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.
René Magritte
Evoking the mysterious
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Toshio Saeki
Nothing is true
Everything is permitted
Toshio Saeki is a psychosexual dream weaver, a grand master of mixing myth, that dream quality and pure libido.
Michiel Schuurman
The logic of replication
The base of Michiel Schuurman’s graphic work is a certain logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. Geeky algorithms, natural…
Loie Hollowell
Maternal Embodiment
Her body of work is an expression of her sensuality as a woman going through the different stages of pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood.
Saskia Olde-Wolbers
Drowned worlds in slow motion
It is rarely possible that an artist’s vision pierces me to the heart at first glance. Dutch artist Saskia Olde-Wolbers did so. Her clear as a bell vision is unmistakable and unique.
Alexis R.
Embroidery of Autonomy
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
Yoga
The Art of Transformation
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
We all know this masterpiece but the delight is in the detail.
Hannsjörg Voth
Landscape as canvas
I’m totally fascinated by Hannsjörg Voth‘s structures in the Moroccan desert. There is a beautiful book called Stadt des Orion…
Roger Dean
Floating Dreamlands
Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…
Ernesto Neto
The body that carries me
I would describe the work of Ernesto Neto as ‘body art’. It’s a supreme example of art that communicates by bodily sensations.
Hans Silvester
Natural Fashion
I try to put down a marker against the fashion mumbo-jumbo of our consumer culture, that only reinforces disempowerment and…
Ben Tolman
Detailed views on inner landscapes
Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
