Construction Workers in Rome Discover Emperor Caligula’s Garden
The cliché runs that you can’t fix a water main or break ground in the Italian capital without uncovering Roman treasure. So it has been proven, with the Italian Ministry of Culture announcing that a major project to pedestrianize an area around the Vatican has discovered a garden belonging to Emperor Caligula. In fact, it’s […]
Eureka: How Henri Rousseau Painted Luscious JunglesWithout Once Leaving France
As explained in the exhibition Directed by Rembrandt, currently on view at the Rembrandthuis Museum in Amsterdam, the 17th-century Dutch painter could spend up to two days binding a turban worn by one of his subjects, because he wanted to depict the traditional headdress as convincingly as possible. The same can not be said of […]
‘I Would Imagine Some Little Child Like Me’: The Eternal Youth of Yoshitomo Nara
Some people never quite grow up. When I interview Yoshitomo Nara ahead of his mid-career survey at the Guggenheim Bilbao, the 64-year-old artist is dressed like the quintessential Avril-Lavigne-inspired skater boy: hair tousled beneath a black baseball cap, skull-and-crossbones T-shirt, and baggy jeans. This air of youthfulness is in keeping with his art practice. Yoshitomo […]