Rembrandt

Museums in Quarantine Series 1, Episode 2 of 4 Historian Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the Young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, currently in lockdown. The exhibition charts the first ten years of the Dutch master’s career, when the miller’s son from Leiden became the superstar of... Continue Reading →

April 30, 2020 0

Κ’ ίσως, για να βγάλεις φτερά…

κ' ίσως, για να βγάλεις φτερά, φτάνει ν' ακουμπήσεις σ' έναν τοίχο και να σκεφτείς πόσο λίγο θα ζήσεις -έτσι άρχισαν τα πουλιά...Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Ο διάβολος με το κηροπήγιο (1975), Ποίηση, τ. 2, Eκδόσεις Μετρονόμος

April 29, 2020 0

You Can Download Thousands of Coloring Book Pages From Museum Collections

There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of peeling back the label on a well-used crayon and adding the last dabs of color to the outlined illustration of a coloring book page. With this past decades’ introduction of mass-market adult coloring books, book stores and home goods markets alike have added coloring book materials to... Continue Reading →

April 28, 2020 0

What Trees Teach Us About Belonging and Life

“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.” I woke up this morning to discover a tiny birch tree rising amidst my city quasi-garden, having overcome unthinkable odds to float its seed over heaps of concrete and... Continue Reading →

April 27, 2020 0

Μια Περιήγηση Στην Εμβληματική Έκθεση «Κυκλαδική Κοινωνία. 5000 Χρόνια Πριν» Που Διοργάνωσε Το Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης Το 2016

ΕΞΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΤΕ ONLINE ΤΗΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΝΗΣΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΥΚΛΑΔΩΝ ΠΡΙΝ ΑΠΟ 5000 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΜΕΣΑ ΑΠΟ ΜΙΑ ΕΚΘΕΣΗ Online περιήγηση στην εμβληματική έκθεση «Κυκλαδική Κοινωνία. 5000 χρόνια πριν» που διοργάνωσε το Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης το 2016 υπό την επιμέλεια του Διευθυντή του, Καθηγητή Νικόλαου Σταμπολίδη, έχουν πλέον τη δυνατότητα να πραγματοποιήσουν οι επισκέπτες του cycladic.gr. Η έκθεση, που πραγματοποιήθηκε για τη συμπλήρωση 30 χρόνων... Continue Reading →

April 26, 2020 0

Lethal Nationalism: Genocide of the Greeks and Christians of Turkey 1913 – 1923

The documentary chronicles the genocide of the Greeks, and other indigenous Christians, at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. Nearly a million Greeks were killed, while millions more were uprooted from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor (Turkey), Pontos, and Eastern Thrace as part of the Turks’ campaign of ethnic cleansing of its... Continue Reading →

April 25, 2020 0

J.S. Ondara

Το πρώτο album του J.S. Ondara "Tales of America" (Φεβρουάριο 2019) σημείωσε μεγάλη επιτυχία που οδήγησε και στην deluxe edition: ''Tales of America: The Second Coming'' τον Σεπτέμβριο του ίδιου έτους με πέντε επιπλέον κομμάτια. Η ζωή του μοιάζει σαν αυτές που παρακολουθούμε στις κινηματογραφικές ταινίες: Γεννήθηκε στο Ναϊρόμπι της Κένυας το 1992. Η οικογένειά... Continue Reading →

April 25, 2020 0

The Scientific Advances We Need To Stop COVID-19

Pandemic I: The First Modern Pandemic The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus. The damage to health, wealth, and well-being has already been enormous. This is like a world war, except in this case, we’re all on the same side. Everyone can work together to learn about the disease and develop tools... Continue Reading →

April 24, 2020 0

Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means

“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.” “Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts,” poet and philosopher... Continue Reading →

April 23, 2020 0

Old Book Illustrations: An Online Database Lets You Download Thousands of Illustrations from the 19th & 20th Centuries

The Golden Age of Illustration is typically dated between 1880 and the early decades of the 20th century. This was “a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration,” writes Artcyclopedia; the time of artists like John Tenniel, Beatrix Potter (below), Arthur Rackham, and Aubrey Beardsley. Some of the most prominent illustrators, such as Beardsley and... Continue Reading →

April 22, 2020 0