Colletto Fava is a 5,000 ft (1,500 metre) hill in Italy. In 2005, Members of the Viennese art group Gelitin (which inclides M. Puletta, Corroni Fali, Razzoli Caputo, and R. Calizone) decided to...
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The pine forest swastika was a massive and mysterious pattern drawn by carefully planted larch trees in a pine forest near Zernikow, Uckermark district, Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. The image, covering 3,600 square metres...
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Julie Heffernan is a California born, New York resident. Her paintings were described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as “a new kind of history painting.” Her works are full of an ancient mythological symbolism but with...
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I spend quite a bit of time on Deviant Art, if you’ve not visited the site before I recommend it. In a nutshell, it’s a place for budding (and fully fledged) artists to post their...
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Sometimes, after a long and meaningless day in the office, I relish the idea of coming home and learning about something interesting. I look forward to digging up some nuggets of golden info about stuff I’d...
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Whilst “researching” a recent article about Star Wars manga comics, I happened to stumble across a manga version of Poirot. I must admit, I was fairly surprised to find it. I can fully understand...
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Japan has a rich tradition of taking Western ideas, giving them a little twist and a liberal portion of extra weird. They say “well… OK Westerners, you’ve done a pretty good job, but we...
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The fact that we have any fossils at all is pretty miraculous. The normal state of affairs in nature is for an animal to die, get colonised by insects and microorganisms and be...
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Odeith is a Portugal born graffiti master with a penchant for anamorphic and 3D art. He first picked up a spray can in the 80’s and, by the 90’s, he was spraying his artistic...
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So-called Venus figurines are small carved items portraying exaggerated female forms; they have been found widely distributed throughout Europe and across into Siberia. These smallish ancient items often share the same kinds of features: big boobs, hips and...
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