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Starting as an enigmatic street graffiti artist in New York in the late 1970s, Jean-Michel Basquiat went on to become the shooting star of the art world before succumbing to a drug overdose in 1988. This is his story.
A brief study of the life and work of conceptual artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
This descriptive analysis of contemporary Portuguese culture from a historical perspective covers topics ranging from art, cuisine, and music to government, politics, and religion. Portugal is evolving quickly as an integrated part of modern Europe. What was until the mid-1970s an old-world society, where 80 percent of the economy was controlled by an oligarchy of eight elite families, is now increasingly a model of an advanced European state. Portugal now ranks highly among the countries of the world in level of globalization and quality of life; it even boasts one of the best-developed renewable energy infrastructures of any developed country. Despite such widespread modernization, however...
Prometheus ist eine der widersprüchlichsten Figuren der griechischen Mythologie und wie kaum eine andere in unserem kulturellen Gedächtnis verankert. Mal als Frevler geschmäht, mal als Retter gefeiert, blieb der feuerbringende Halbgott durch die Zeiten lebendig und steht bis heute für Wissen und Innovation. In den Künsten hat die Sage von Prometheus mit ihren drei Hauptmotiven Menschenbildung, Feuerraub und Marter im Lauf der Jahrhunderte die verschiedensten, ja konträren Deutungen evoziert. Mit der Aufklärung zum Mythos des modernen Menschen geworden, konnte Prometheus das 19. Jahrhundert in all seinen Widersprüchen bildhaft werden lassen – sei es als Motor der Technisierung und I...
This exhibition brings together a selection of over 500 works by more than 200 women artists, from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day.