I am a filmmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and copy editor.
We make a connection between the religious-mathematical foundation of the Islamic form and its introduction into the Renaissance artistic world at a time when it seeks to develop geometric thought based on the new humanist mentality.
“How do visual representations of the past, or lack thereof, affect our perception of history? To what extent is our experience and understanding of the present shaped by a more intimate knowledge of past events?”
We were grateful for a chance to ask Vinita Karim a few questions about her remarkable artwork.
A Magpies’ Mix Tape featuring female instrumentalists over the years.
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
June ramblings. It’s the Magpies’ Manifesto!
Mary Granville Delany Invented The Art Of Mixed Media Collage At Age 71.
We were grateful to have the chance to explore the mysterious and beautiful world of Cristina Vergano.
This kind of hunger for hate and this desperate thirst for indignation leaves people vulnerable, and they’ll devour whatever they are sold, they’ll order everything on the menu.
The film is like a poem of a dream, composed in movements, and alternating between scenes of blissful young lovers naked in bed, surreal and frightening images that serve as worrying metaphors for pregnancy, and documentary footage of people on the Rue Mouffetard. In 17 minutes the film covers the cycle of life — childhood, youth, old age, infirmity, death — but in not in any logical order, rather in the bewildering way that life moves or that we move through life.
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