Portraiture has a long tradition in Western painting. As a genre, it became associated with the elites, making invisible protagonists of populations that were not part of the ruling class. Thus, traditional portraits are mostly white and male. (more…)

On the horizon of the district between old, handmade fences and the sky, you can see the newly built glass skyscrapers in the bright light of the coastal center of the city, as if portending future innovations of Bayil. (more…)

Sons of Cain, written and directed by Keti Stamo, is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place, time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code, Kanun, still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants.. (more…)

Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé continues the NMNM program of exhibitions dedicated to the revolutionary aesthetics developed by Serge Diaghilev in Monte-Carlo. Heralding certain aspects of contemporary art, the cross-disciplinary approach taken by the founder of the Ballets Russes brought radical transformation (more…)

Following the murder of George Floyd by police officers, demonstrations across the U.S. and beyond ignite against racism and police brutality, at times met with less than magnanimous authority.

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Born in Northern France, Jean-Philippe Lebée is a photographer and director who is passionate about life and traveling. After his audiovisual and cinema studies, Jean-Philippe Lebée started to study photography at the school Gobelins in Paris. (more…)

Jasper Johns was an artist that came onto the scene in the 1950s. Much of the work that he created led the American public away from the expressionism form, and towards an art movement or form known as the concrete. (more…)

Cy Twombly was a North American artist who spent much of his career in Italy. He was fascinated by the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. In his paintings he often referred to historical or mythological figures, or included fragments of classical poetry. (more…)

This past Friday marked the 100th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Not counting the continuing conflict which began in 2014, this latest invasion starting earlier this year sees not a clear end. (more…)