Art stopped. Too afraid to question the party line, to risk imprisonment, many artists fled. They simply feared the soul-piercing pounding on the door, the shudder-inducing knock of the Securitate. Fear flourished under the brutal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in…
The moment a microphone was thrust in front of her, life changed. She suddenly found inspiration, a distinct new passion. “My first thought was to grab that microphone, and to sing as loud as possible,” remembers psychotherapist Alexandra Nowak.…
Mickey Mouse simply grew tiresome. It just wasn’t fun anymore for Alison Courtenay-Dunn to be working at Disneyland Paris. Initially intent on a career in hotel management, she realized one day that another world inspired her. She wanted to be…
One evening I was walking through the old town of Cologne, it had been raining, a cold wind was pushing through the winding streets coming from the nearby Rhine. There were few people on the street, so close to closing…
Clinging to hope, the defiant belief Paradise can be found, the intrepid Finder of Lost Souls treks through the rugged Mexican wilds. Toting her cameras, she skirts a perilous ravine edging the mountainous Cerro de Chipinque. It is late afternoon,…
A rebellious outsider, the illusionist decries the obtrusiveness and chaos of contemporary life, saying “It’s an avalanche of humbug impressions” from TV and the Internet. Such a globalized realm, she believes, creates a lack of suspense, an overwhelming sense of…
From a kid with big dreams to a well-known dancer performing with Madonna and JLO. Jesus Presinal (JP) was brought up in very traditional Dominican family – his parents wanted him to become a doctor or an architect but he…
Afflicted with incurable wanderlust, an unquenchable desire to discover unique, thought-provoking art, she became a treasure hunter. At first it was only traveling through the Ukraine to small, remote villages. Delighted by the “purity” of artists who passionately wanted to…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lives. So does the bawdy, libertine spirit of the Moulin Rouge, its eroticism and joie de vivre. The boundless imagination, and caressing fingertips of Lautrec’s heir apparent, the voluptuous dancers and decadent spirit of the Cancan comes…
Koloman Wagner – Visual artist, research assistant and doctorate at the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics at the University of Regensburg. Founder and owner of a private drawing school. Luxury Splash of Art: Good morning Koloman, it is a…
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