Arts & Culture

Frida Kahlo and her plants
Kahlo and her plants — indivisible in life and in art, can be discovered at the New York Botanical gardens: Frida ...

12 horses in an art gallery
In New York this weekend at the Gavin Brown art gallery 12 horses graze, poop and go about their business , and it is ...

Alcuzcuz: a lifestyle by Jaime Parladé
"What I have is a good eye; about good taste...I do not like to use that expression because good taste is something so ...

Crab and lobster plates
The story of a Majolica lobster and crab plate by Alvaro José of Caldas da Rainha ( 1880 ).We became obsessed ...

Politics, crafts, ecology, tradition and disruption at the Waterweavers show.
Thanks to the advice of my dear Colombian friend Cristina Grajales, whose decorative arts gallery in New York is home ...

The azulejos of Sevilla
Since I was a child I have memories of these beautiful tiles or azulejos that my mother used to source, mostly old and ...

The strange and serene beauty of aquascapes.
There is a fascinating place in San Francisco that I like to visit when I am in town. It is called Aqua Forest ...

The cancelled landscape
Argentinian textile artists Alexandra Kehayoglou makes wool carpets that look and feel like grassland. They are ...

Secondhand photography
As a photographer's agent and lover of this media I reflect very often on the visual overload we are subject to every ...

Ai Weiwei @Large In Alcatraz prison island
Art and activism : Read about Ai Weiwei @Large in Alcatraz island prison

Ai Weiwei @Large in the Alcatraz prison
As I write this post I am aware and grateful for the freedom of expression that allows me to voice my opinion when, how ...

