Continue Reading From Smirk to Smile Cultural aspects of smiling Can we explain why people in some countries smile and in others don’t? Why women smile more often than men? Scientists have…
Continue Reading Curtain Call Open and closed They’ve delivered quite a performance, those curtains. In real life and in art. Time to call them back for a bit of…
Continue Reading Silk on the Road Silk Road: traveling across continents and through the darknet Imagine you increased your weight 10.000 times in 6 weeks and then had to move your head 300.000 times to spin yourself…
Continue Reading Fabric in Contemporary Painting The brilliant work of Henk Pander I can photograph art and fabric (see above, taken in Henk Pander’s studio), but I could never be a European art critic….
Continue Reading The Right to Dry The American ban on Clotheslines I cannot take credit for inventing this slogan – it is the name of a movement that fights against state laws and…
Continue Reading Fabric on Stage How fabric makes movement more beautiful Whether you see someone doing a little jig on the street or you watch the most amazing ballet performance, the appreciation of…
Continue Reading Velvet Variations Above and Underground I swear there isn’t a topic that a) isn’t covered somewhere on the internet and b) doesn’t become interesting when you read…
Continue Reading Fabric(action)s A short history of lace and its depictions in art This week will be devoted to fabric. Velvet, cotton, curtains, linen on laundry lines, you’ll be surprised how many interesting facts are…
Continue Reading The Flight is on Paul Cadmus' The Aviator I once saw an original Paul Cadmus drawing in a beach house on Cape Cod – the man knew muscles, and, for that…
Continue Reading Freezing at FRIEZE Yu Hong's Security Screening Two years ago I attended FRIEZE, an art fair in New York, for the first and probably last time. It was ice…
