Laura Beatriz Carrillo · Artist Member

Laura Beatriz Carrillo is the The Feng Shui Lady®, a female LatinX creator, writer, teacher, and consultant. As a Feng Shui expert, Laura helps people make the space for their blessings and use Feng Shui as a manifesting tool for magnetizing everything from love and babies, to health and wealth. She writes, teaches, consults and … Read more

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Vonn Sumner · Artist Member

“I’m a weird kind of figurative painter. I don’t have any allegiance to figurative painting or realism.” Vonn Sumner is a Los Angeles-based artist whose figurative paintings and portraits exhibit a playful sense of the surreal. Originally from the Bay Area, Sumner grew up as the son of a picture framer and a schoolteacher. From … Read more

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String Theory · Artist Member

Luke and Holly Rothschild are artists known for their work with String Theory, the hybrid Los Angeles performance collective that fuses oversized architectural harp installations, original music, dance, and projections into unique works. Before co-founding String Theory. Luke Rothschild studied painting at the Chicago Art Institute. He also played in rock bands, developing his interest … Read more

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Video Games Are Not the Future

Video games are the future of storytelling. The coolest, youngest person you know believes it. TED Talks told you it’s happening. Even Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who makes a pretty good living off non-video game storytelling, thinks so. This sweeping statement has been offered so much it carries the weight of scientifically proven truth or biblical prophecy. … Read more

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Michael A. Rosenfeld · Artist Member

Born in St. Louis, Michael Rosenfeld is a painter based in Southern California. His first influences include surrealist painters Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali. One of his early paintings as a kid depicted a flying bulldog and giant saddle shoe, foreshadowing the nature and pop culture motifs he would revisit in his later works. As … Read more

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Mpambo Wina · Artist Member

Born in Zambia. Raised in Los Angeles. Trained in New York. Danced in Germany as the Berlin Wall fell. Taught black students in South Africa during apartheid. Mpambo Wina has danced her way around the world and back again. Mpambo Wina is a Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer and educator. Born in Lusaka, Zambia to a … Read more

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Prime · Artist Member

In Los Angeles, Prime is the essential street artist. He’s a founding member of the Kill 2 Succeed (K2S) graffiti crew, the influential group whose work defined the Pico-Union streets of East LA in the 1980’s. His work with this group helped define the Los Angeles lettering style that became part of the city’s landscape. … Read more

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Jim McHugh · Artist Member

Photographer Jim McHugh is the artist’s artist of the Los Angeles scene. Among his most acclaimed works is a portrait series of iconic contemporary artists like David Hockney, John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha. “When I started doing these artists, I had no idea who Ed Ruscha was.” McHugh is also widely known for his experimental … Read more

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Raymond J. Barry · Artist Member

As an actor, Ray Barry has appeared in award winning films like Born on the Fourth of July and Dead Man Walking, as well as acclaimed TV shows such as The X-Files and Justified. He’s also an accomplished playwright whose work draws on his tumultuous personal life—his father was a violent drunk. However, when Barry … Read more

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Xander Berkeley · Artist Member

As an actor, Xander Berkeley is immediately recognizable. You may know him from groundbreaking TV shows like “24” and “The Walking Dead”, cult classic movies like Mommy Dearest and Sid and Nancy, or fan favorites like A Few Good Men and Air Force One. You’ve definitely seen him in something. On screen, he’s been killed … Read more

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Is Social Media Killing Storytelling?

You hear it all the time. Story is everything. We encourage people to tell their stories, from children just learning to talk to elders counting down the number of words they have left. Those same children learn morals from stories—be kind to others, tell the truth, find true love—and perhaps learn to question some of … Read more

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TOVISUALS • Artist Member

Who is TOVISUALS? Otherwise known as Tyler Osika, TOVISUALS is a core member of the Hieronyvision team. He creates all of the graphics and visual effects for HV, and also has a key production role on the camera team, from series to feature films. He has worked for major companies creating motion graphics, such as … Read more

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg · Artist Member

Before he became a prolific painter, Michael Lindsay-Hogg hung out with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He also created the entire concept of the music video. Working with legendary bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who, Lindsay-Hogg pioneered the now ubiquitous format. Along with a few groundbreaking concert specials, including The … Read more

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August Sander

Europeans in the 20th Century If you close your eyes and imagine a European in the early 20th century, you probably see a black and white photo portrait by August Sander. The unsmiling man in a creased work suit; a stern woman in a drab frock; stoic children in hand me down jumpers. If Sander’s … Read more

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Nig “Niggy” Thomas • Artist Member

Think a gif can’t be a work of art? Think again. The British digital artist Nig “Niggy” Thomas creates mind-bending animated images. His work blurs the lines between painting, technology, mathematics and viral web content. Of course, as creator of the influential BoschBot, Niggy is no stranger to the fusion of art and internet technology. … Read more

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Mark Acetelli

Mark Acetelli is a Los Angeles based painter. His work explores the dance of the conscious and unconscious. A Detroit native from an artistic family, Mark can recall the smell of turpentine and oil paints from his mother’s work as some of his earliest memories. He credits his mother with inspiring him to pursue art, … Read more

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Susanna Schulten · Artist Member

German-born painter Susanna Schulten has always straddled the worlds of art and film. As a teenager, she appeared in German movies and TV shows before turning down a contract to study painting. She moved to Los Angeles on a scholarship from the Berlin Film Festival and studied under the cult filmmaker Monte Hellman. From this … Read more

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Timothy Doherty · Artist Member

Timothy Doherty is a playwright and screenwriter. Essentially self-taught, he began writing scenes to perform in the acting programs at Theatre West in Los Angeles an HB Studio in New York. Since these humble origins, he has written various projects for film, TV, and the stage. Currently, he is launching a Kickstarter campaign for his feature … Read more

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The Laboratory Arts Collective

Since 1993, The Laboratory Arts Collective has provided “original experiences for curious minds” to its members and creative partners. Founded by husband-and-wife team Nigel Daly and Louise Salter, the Collective sets out to do exactly what its name implies: promote experimentalism in the arts through community. Through innovative multimedia events, inspirational artistic activities, or salon … Read more

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Pharmaka: The LA Painters’ Movement

In this short video, Shane Guffogg tells the history of his involvement with Pharmaka, an art movement centered in downtown Los Angeles. Guffogg and his colleagues founded Pharmaka as a reaction to the corporate, money-driven culture of contemporary art, especially painting. The group’s mission aimed to return the medium to its roots, reclaiming it as … Read more

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Glass Creatures: Works by Shane Guffogg

In this documentary short, artist Shane Guffogg explains his process of creating glass works. For the “The Fifth Sound” series, Guffogg fused his concept drawings of symmetrical negative space with the Murano glass blowing techniques of Venice. He worked with traditional artisans and glass masters to produce the final works. The results are organic abstractions … Read more

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Henry Darger

Summary Gabby P. presents the mysterious life & career of a 20th outsider artistEvaluates the controversy surrounding his illustration of young girlsProvides art historical context around nudityCurated works featured in the Profile tab4 Minute Read Those Visionary Vivian Girls The magnum opus of outsider artist Henry Darger has a seemingly interminable title: “The Story of … Read more

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Forgotten Masterpieces: The Afro-Portuguese Ivories

Some of the most brilliant sculptures of the Renaissance era were not produced by the great masters in Italy but unknown artisans in Africa. These works were traded among European nobility as curiosities and trendy décor. In some cases, their owners tossed them into the trash pile. How is it that we almost lost these … Read more

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Stanley Dorfman · Artist Member

A wonderful abstract artist, Stanley Dorfman worked with rock legends and battled apartheid in South Africa. Find out more about this fascinating painter and music video pioneer! Going to St. Ives“I do put music on when I paint.”Born in South Africa, Stanley Dorfman first studied painting in Paris. He moved to England in the 1950’s … Read more

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Laura Hipke · Artist Member

Laura Hipke is an artist and curator based in the Los Angeles area. The self-taught painter creates fascinating portraits, working from existing photographs. Laura Hipke Part 1 • The art of Art Laura Hipke Part 2 • The art of Art ⭐ About Laura ⭐“I prefer to work from photographs rather than a live subject. … Read more

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BoschBot

The BoschBot concept is simple: the account randomly selects and then tweets out a detail image from The Garden of Earthly Delights or The Temptation of St. Anthony (i.e. the birthplace of everyone’s favorite demon bird Max Bosch) throughout the course of a day. That’s it. Again, as an online arts channel inspired by Bosch, … Read more

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Herman Makkink

Summary Max B. reviews the career of the eccentric Dutch geniusChronicles the evolution of his unique styleSuggests a link between events in the artist’s life and surroundings and his sculptureAnalyzes the role of the grotesque and sexuality in his workCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab5 Minute Read Creeping on Kubrick Herman Makkink would have … Read more

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Ruth Asawa

Summary Adam D-F reviews the career and work of the Japanese-American sculptorArgues for Asawa’s status as the greatest sculptor of the 20th centuryExplores how her use of unique materials created a signature style Highlights her association with the city of San FranciscoCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab6 Minute Read The Great American Sculptor For … Read more

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James Turrell

The Greatest Living Artist For over half a century, the visionary artist James Turrell has transformed architectural and geographical spaces into unique, experiential works. A Los Angeles native who flew planes as a teenager and studied psychology at Pomona University, Turrell has brought a preternatural perspective to art throughout his career. Inspired by the way … Read more

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The Crane Wife

The Crane Wife by Saehee ChoShe is barely discernible from the color of snow except for the lick of red pressed against her skull. It looks as if someone has blessed her. Her body is shuddering, making soft breaks in an otherwise expansive stillness. Her beak is half buried, weakly trying to toss off the … Read more

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Rakeem Cunningham • Artist Member

Photographer for a Radical Generation Los Angeles based photographer and visual artist Rakeem Cunningham creates eye-catching images to challenge conventional ideas about the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and love.His unique style is marked by humor and visual flourish.Rakeem’s work subverts aesthetic standards that often marginalize LGBTQIA individuals and people of color in terms of … Read more

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Duane Dell’Amico · Artist Member

Corona sandblack genie jukes the hardware in a pleasure forest jams the transmission round the creamy crater laughing lake and sun we fast on spinach and forklift a pharmacy into our face university brains all blue and gone for good in disbelief we take the truck to the pleasure water fill our wrinkles with water … Read more

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Movie Recommendations

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Meet the Mascot: Max

Meet Our Mascot, Max! Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch and painstakingly recreated from scratch.Check out the video in the next tab to learn more about it’s creation process!Can you find Max in the Painting Below?

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To Sir William Temple

Twill be pleasinger to you, I am sure, to tell you how fond I am of your lock. Well, in earnest now, and setting aside all compliment, I never saw finer hair, nor of a better colour; but cut no more on’t, I would not have it spoiled for the world. If you love me, … Read more

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Rules for Lamas

BY: DUANE Dell’AmicoEditor’s Question:[What did a Lama ever do to Duane?]Duane’s Rules for Lamas 1. When you suck Duane’s cock, do that thing where you make two sounds at once. 2. When you have extinguished all desire, give all your shit to Duane.  3. Take into account that great love and great achievements are not … Read more

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Chris Wu · Artist Member

Chris Wu 5 Ways I Approach Writing Like Getting A Haircut I’ll often stay with my ideas for a while. It can feel like waiting for my hair to grow. Sometimes it takes weeks until I’m ready to sit down in the chair.It’s important for me to know what I’m writing. Every now and then … Read more

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Lauren B. Taylor · Artist Member

Lauren’s Work The words in October Montauk are inspired by the work of absurdist Soviet poet Daniil Kharms. Lauren recorded the footage during a Montauk thunderstorm in August but waited until October to compose the piece. Her work explores the intersection between Poetry, Film and Music Train uses a music term called Granular Synthesis which … Read more

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Originals

The Goal Love and Sex are completely misunderstood by those growing up in this generation. A multimedia documentary series years in the making, The Love & Sex Project (LSP) explores the evolving nature of romantic relationships and sexual intimacy. The series takes advantage of multiple platforms, with original content posted on the Hieronyvision site and more interactive … Read more

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Jeff Pohn · Artist Member

In his memoir Blotto: Adventures in Alcoholism, author Jeff Pohn describes his personal journey in raw, unfiltered detail. Exclusive Blotto Readingsby Jeff Pohn BOTTOMS UP My days are devoted to the killing of cockroaches, who share my scuzzy, single apartment in Hollywood.  I’m drinking around the clock, but to diminishing returns.  I have to drink … Read more

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Don’t Talk to Me Until I’ve Had My Coffee

Considering how jittery I get and how I feel like my heart might explode whenever I drink coffee, I’m pretty sure one line of coke would kill me instantly. Not that I’ve ever considered doing coke. Well…maybe once, at my best friend’s friend’s boyfriend’s pre-gaming get-together. They were a bunch of well-off thirty-ish white guys … Read more

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Genghis Khan shot by an arrow

G.K. on his throne He sits with both hands relaxed on the throne’s armrest, like an old lion in repose. His position high on the dais allows him to regard the entirety of his court, to see how each of his subjects react as he orders the construction of trade routes, and the deaths of … Read more

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What Are We Looking At

What Are We Looking At by Chris Wu I’m sitting in the chair, looking in the mirror. There is nothing else to do but look. I always get the stylists who hate talking. Which is fine by me. I could use the time in silence. Pretend to meditate. Lower my heart rate. Since I started … Read more

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Gerald Brom · Artist Member

If you’d like to see more of Brom’s work, check out his website and IG below!WEBSITE INSTAGRAM

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White Box Juvenilia

White Box Juvenilia by Adriane Quinlan There was a boy and a girl and they were They were not at the beach or the coast, these stories end in coasts. They were not at the bowling lanes which closed early on Sundays or the scooped out hollows of back alleys, there were no garages or … Read more

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The Easiest Time

Not gonna lie: it’s not the easiest time to try and make it as a real-life vampire.(And no, I’m not part of that whole New Orleans scene. I’m the real deal.)Name’s Les Drake. (My agent’s idea—I wanted something a little less… drama, I guess. “Why hide it?” she’d said. “You’re doing this, right? Might as … Read more

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Sonnet

Sonnet by Lauren B. Taylor My love, sponge brain of things psychedelic, Lays lacksidaisicle with grunt mush ‘shrooms. I pop goji like pennies angelic, And watch as the root tombs and fruit boom blooms. Paired, we emit glows of hazed honey gold, Of Sundays after bacon after Cross, After breaking loose through the starch stiff … Read more

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Joe’s Place

Joe’s Place by Omar Zahzah A. Joe had it all figured out: as the energy cycles of the ages shiveringly converged towards the undisputable End of Days, there was only one way to read the invisible lettering that riddled the accumulated heft of extant environs—as literally as possible. Metaphor was moribund, analogy atrophied; nothing could … Read more

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Colorways

Colorways by Jeremy Schmidt So far as a sofa is soft skin no matter how distant is sway. So long as near-silk and reduction run over it, neck- baking nights are clear sky. So near yet so sharp sits that unblue despite all sifted assurances. So if the simplest situation is this where everything is … Read more

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Morella

“Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single.” – Plato, Symposium With a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many years ago, my soul from our first meeting, burned with fires it had never before known; but the fires were not of Eros, … Read more

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D’strict: The D’construction of Art

At the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic, all eyes turned to Seoul, South Korea. Not just, as you might expect, for the city’s admirable containment of the new plague, but rather for a massive simulated wave image in a skyscraper.If that doesn’t sound impressive, you should understand that the wave didn’t look like a … Read more

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Hunted Down

I. Most of us see some romances in life.  In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising the opportunity may, at first sight, seem. As I have retired, and live at my ease, … Read more

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Barbara Hepworth

Summary Max B. reviews the career and work of the British sculptorAnalyzes her use of negative space in sculptureExplains how this breakthrough revolutionized the mediumCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab3 Minute Read Modernity in Marble With a single visionary action, the English artist Barbara Hepworth defined modern sculpture. Although not yet 30 years old, … Read more

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Philadelphia Wireman

Summary Max B. reviews the career and work of the sculptor and outsider artistExplores the mystery around the unknown artist’s identityAnalyzes the work through possible links to African art and Black American culture Interprets the works through the artist’s anonymity3 Minute Read The Mystery is Not the Message The story of the Philadelphia Wireman is … Read more

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Umberto Boccioni

Summary Max B. reviews the career and works of the Italian FuturistExamines the paradox of how his 100-year-old work still feels futuristicAssesses the legacy of the Futurist movement through Boccioni’s workCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab4 Minute Read Sculpting the Future How does a sculpture that’s been around for more than a century still … Read more

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Shane Guffogg · Artist Member

Shane Guffogg is a Los Angeles based painter and sculptor. He also hosts HV’s original series The Art of Art Shane recently shared his thoughts about the impact of AI on artists. Watch the performance of the piece mentioned in the article below!

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The Masque of the Red Death

The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal — the madness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body … Read more

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Adolf Wölfli

Summary Max B. presents the life and career of a 20th century Swiss outsider artistExplores the uniquely visionary quality to his illustrationsHypothesizes on the effect of mental illness, person trauma, and imprisonment on his workCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab4 Minute Read Swiss Outsider Artist (1864-1930) The overlooked Swiss visionary Adolf Wölfli represents a … Read more

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Life A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile … Read more

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Pride and Prejudice

Published in January of 1813, Pride and Prejudice remains Austen’s best known work, a master class in in characterization and clever observation that lays the groundwork for contemporary humor. While the specific details of upper and middle class life in the English countryside may feel dated to anyone who has never attended a ballroom social, the … Read more

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So We’ll Go No More a Roving

replica by Thomas Phillips, oil on canvas, circa 1835 (1813)So, we’ll go no more a rovingSo late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest. Though … Read more

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The Piazza

The Piazza Herman Melville (1819-1891) “With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele—” When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza—a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of … Read more

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Matthew Brady

Summary Max B. explores the career of photography pioneer Matthew BradyFocuses on the tension between his role as artist and chronicler of history & warAnalyzes the importance of death in his workCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab3 Minute Read The Civil War Even before the onslaught of the Civil War, Matthew Brady understood the … Read more

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser is arguably the second most acclaimed author of the English Renaissance after William Shakespeare. Much of his work presents thinly veiled celebrations of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign. However, his series of love sonnets, Amoretti, dedicated to a different Elizabeth — a woman he eventually married — endure as some of his most accessible works … Read more

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Cheap, Disposable, Tacky: The Future of Art?

The art market booms while the art fizzles. Millionaire artists make disposable objects for billionaire patrons to hide in airport storage spaces. Designer installations move droves to stand in line for selfies yet fail to stir a single soul. What has happened to art and the people who make it? The corrupting influence of extreme … Read more

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The Sphinx Without a Secret

One afternoon I was sitting outside the Café de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, when I heard some one call my name.  I turned round, and saw Lord Murchison.  We had not … Read more

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Hermaphroditus

ILift up thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out rest; Of all things tired thy lips look weariest, Save the long smile that they are wearied of. Ah sweet, albeit no love be sweet enough, Choose of two loves and cleave unto the best; Two … Read more

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A Dill Pickle

And then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a Japanese vase of paper daffodils. There was a tall plate of fruit in front of him, and very carefully, in a way she recognized immediately as his “special” way, he was peeling an … Read more

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Are Artists Afraid to Be Bold?

The art market booms while the art fizzles. Millionaire artists make disposable objects for billionaire patrons to hide in airport storage spaces. Designer installations move droves to stand in line for selfies yet fail to stir a single soul. What has happened to art and the people who make it? The corrupting influence of extreme wealth. The upheaval of technology … Read more

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Was Shakespeare Gay?

Sonnet XX by William Shakespeare A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women’s fashion: An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in … Read more

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The Art World Isn’t Flat

The art market booms while the art fizzles. Millionaire artists make disposable objects for billionaire patrons to hide in airport storage spaces. Designer installations move droves to stand in line for selfies yet fail to stir a single soul. What has happened to art and the people who make it? The corrupting influence of extreme wealth. The upheaval of technology … Read more

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Love, Sex and Sonnets

What’s so special about 14 lines and an arbitrary pre-determined rhyme scheme? A poetic architecture that traces back to the 13th century, the sonnet remains the most enduring of literary forms. The origin of the word itself suggests some of its power, deriving from the Italian word for “little song” or, to put it in … Read more

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If thou must love me

If thou must love me… (Sonnet 14) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only.  Do not say “I love her for her smile—her look—her way Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense … Read more

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Petrarch and Laura

Written in the common Italian dialect instead of medieval Latin, Petrarch’s sonnets depict his unrequited love for the woman he called Laura. To this day, Laura’s true identity remains unknown. Some have speculated she was the noblewoman Laura de Noves, an ancestor of the Marquis de Sade. Others have questioned whether she existed outside his … Read more

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Sappho

“Song of the Rose” Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning If Zeus chose us a King of the flowers in his mirth,He would call to the rose, and would royally crown it;For the rose, ho, the rose! is the grace of the earth,Is the light of the plants that are growing upon it!For the rose, ho, … Read more

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George Grie

Summary Max B. offers a brief look at the career of digital artist George GrieArgues Grie remains overlooked as a pioneering artistCurated works featured in the Portfolio tab1 Minute Read George Grie Although he considers art his secondary pursuit, Russian born Canadian painter George Grie is among the pioneers in digital art. Grie, whose day … Read more

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Dorothea Lange

Summary Max B. argues that Dorthea Lange is one of the most important photographers of the 20th centuryAnalyzes her work through its focus on traditionally overlooked individualsDebates whether her style was overtly feministPraises her bold choice to critique the government that paid for her work3 Minute Read Dorothea & the Great Depression Among the most … Read more

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Youth gone, and beauty gone if ever there

E la Sua Volontade è nostra pace. – DanteSol con questi pensier, con altre chiome. – PetrarcaYouth gone, and beauty gone if ever thereDwelt beauty in so poor a face as this;Youth gone and beauty, what remains of bliss?I will not bind fresh roses in my hair,To shame a cheek at best but little fair,–Leave … Read more

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Annabel Lee

Annaebel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. * I was … Read more

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The Garden of Love

I went to the Garden of Love,And saw what I never had seen:A Chapel was built in the midst,Where I used to play on the green.And the gates of this Chapel were shut,And Thou shalt not. writ over the door;So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,That so many sweet flowers boreAnd I saw it … Read more

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Julia Margaret Cameron

Summary Max B. examines the career of overlooked 19th century photographerAnalyzes the pioneering use of soft focus in her workExplains how she set standards of portrait photographyCurated works featured in the Portfolio tabDon’t miss the fun facts at the end!3 Minute Read The Mother of Soft Focus Although Julia Margaret Cameron did not take up … Read more

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John Keats and Fanny Brawne

To Fanny I cry your mercy—pity—love! Aye, love!Merciful love that tantalizes not,One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love,Unmasked, and being seen—without a blot!O! let me have thee whole,—all—all—be mine!That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zestOf love, your kiss,—those hands, those eyes divine,That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast,—Yourself—your soul—in pity give me all,Withhold no atom’s atom or I … Read more

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What The F**k Was Hieronymus Bosch Thinking?

Just look at any one of Hieronymus Bosch’s works. Each one is distinct, enigmatic, offensive, symbolic, allegorical, totally f***ing bonkers and 100% like no other painter of his own time or since. What was he trying to tell us? Like most everyone in the Netherlands circa 1500, Bosch had a firm understanding of Christianity’s central … Read more

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William Blake

Summary Max B. outlines the life and career of the visionary artist and poetFocuses on how Blake’s personal philosophy and beliefs informed his artExplains his influence and importanceCurated works featured in the Portfolio tabDon’t miss the fun facts at the end!5 Minute Read English Romantic Painter, Illustrator, Poet and Philosopher. Perhaps more than any other … Read more

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Lewis Carroll

Summary Lewis Carroll’s life and career through his photographyMax B. examines his work through the claims of pedophiliaEvaluating his photographs based on historical standards and his written work Curated works featured in the Portfolio tabDon’t miss the fun facts at the end!7 Minute Read Polymath and Pedophile? Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known today by his … Read more

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Katsushika Hokusai

Summary Max B. explores an overlooked part of the Japanese master’s careerFocus on the artist’s work in the erotic shunga genreReconsiders how this style influenced the artist’s careerCurated works featured in the Portfolio tabDon’t miss the fun facts at the end!4 Minute Read Japan’s Greatest Painter… The painter and print illustrator Katsushika Hokusai is undoubtedly … Read more

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Eadweard Muybridge

Summary Max B. explores the career of the photographer and film pioneerExamines the tension between art and science in his workStudies the link between biographical elements (including murder!) and artistic breakthroughsAssesses the hypothesis that he may have suffered from mental health issues Curated works featured in the Portfolio tab4 Minute Read Father of the Moving … Read more

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Egon Schiele

Summary Max B. reexamines the life and career of the controversial Austrian painterPraises the artist’s work for its mastery of the grotesque Evaluates whether to reconsider the role of female sex and nudity in his work due to controversies around pedophilia and exploitationCurated works featured in the Portfolio tabDon’t miss the fun facts at the … Read more

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Gustav Klimt

Summary Max B. delves into the life & career of the Austrian painterAnalyzes the role of women in his works and personal lifeEvaluates the scandals in his own life and contemporary controversiesCurated works featured in the Portfolio tabDon’t miss the fun facts at the end!6 Minute Read Austrian Painter & Engraver. Symbolism/Art Nouveau Known for … Read more

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500 Years of Hieronymus Bosch at the Prado

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?– Hieronymus Bosch The building that today houses the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed by architect Juan de Villanueva in 1785. It was constructed to house the Natural History Cabinet, by orders of … Read more

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