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1 month ago

In a 'Still Life' painting nothing moves — but, wait! Was that a dragon?

NPR

In a 'Still Life' painting nothing moves — but, wait! Illustrations © 2024 Paul O. Zelinsky/HarperCollins Publishers In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. Sponsor Message "A lack of sleep is an essential part of my process," jokes author Alex London, "as is vivid hallucinations and trying to make myself laugh." Illustrations © 2024 Paul O. Zelinsky/HarperCollins Publishers …

London Life Painting Paul Still Life Zelinsky

7 months, 2 weeks ago

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain: Pallant House Gallery review: Turning the humble cup and saucer into cutting edge art

The Independent

There was a time, not so long ago, when an exhibition of 20th-century British still life would have seemed – how can I put this politely? Yet more arresting than either is Still Life with Joint of Beef on a Pewter Dish by the Chichester artist George Smith – one of the first British painters to focus substantially on still …

Life British Objects Gordon Cheung Still Life

1 year, 1 month ago

19 cozy gifts for the hygge lovers in your world — or yourself

LA Times

Growing up — and, well, still to this day — my parents have always made sure to give me at least one cozy gift. $39.99 at Dash Hanahana Beauty shea butter With its tagline “Don’t Be Ashy,” Hanahana Beauty is a body butter on the market that’s worth talking about — and for good reason. Crafted with 100% natural cotton, …

Tea World Life California Feel Eye Lat

1 year, 8 months ago

‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Although he could not sight-read music, Coward was a …

London Life British Friends Man Image Play

2 years, 2 months ago

Review: Still Life by Anoushka Khan

Hindustan Times

Still Life by UK-based artist and editor Anoushka Khan, who grew up in Pakistan and the Netherlands, is an interesting exercise in using words and black and white images to weave a curiously poignant story. The graphic novel, which won the Best Illustrated Book title in the Publishing Next Industry Awards 2021, features Pinky, who is waiting for her husband …

Khan Pinky Pasha Still Life Life Anoushka

2 years, 8 months ago

K-pop Legends BIGBANG Make Record-breaking Comeback After 4 Years With 'Still Life'; Fans Rejoice

News 18

K-pop group BIGBANG made their long-awaited comeback on April 5 at midnight. In the past four years, BIGBANG’s former member Seungri aka Lee Seung-Hyun was allegedly involved in an illegal prostitution case. Sharing their thoughts on the latest music video titled Still Life, one of the fans pointed out how it contains a lot of imagery from some of the …

Life Song Twitter Member Comeback Charts Still Life

3 years, 3 months ago

Butterflies: The ultimate icon of our fragility

BBC

Butterflies: The ultimate icon of our fragility Getty Images The butterfly has symbolised ephemerality – and rebirth – for millennia, writes Matthew Wilson. Alamy A butterfly between the skull and wheel on this Roman mosaic from 30BC-14C symbolises the human soul A small white is the focus of one of art history's most marvellous paintings of childhood: Thomas Gainsborough's The …

Nature Climate Change World Life Butterfly Getty Images Human

3 years, 5 months ago

Bildungsroman (& Other Stories) | Areez Katki on first solo show, and using art to explore notions of home, identity

Firstpost

These cloths, besides being a family archive, are also symbols of togetherness and familiarity within the Parsi community, appealing to the two strands that lent themselves to the exhibit’s name. The katkas, dust cloths, tea towels, napkins, Bombay Dyeing linens, and other such cloths have made their way into Katki’s first solo exhibition in India, Bildungsroman, at Mumbai’s TARQ art …

Family Art Mumbai House Shrine Other Stories Parsi

3 years, 9 months ago

Gautam Bhatia’s storyboard of life

Live Mint

Browsing through architect Gautam Bhatia’s set of drawings and plates is like watching the storyboard of a motion picture come together—there is a sense of movement and connection between each visual as one gives way to the next. It is this transitory idea of birth and death that features in Bhatia’s exhibition Still Life, on show at Bikaner House from …

Architecture Life Bhatia End House Series Still Life