One woman is wounded, roiled by pain, and limited by male-dominated traditions. Another is bursting free, hoping to live life like Frida Kahlo, and to pursue her art without boundaries. She wanders, the rebel “sending a lesson to women everywhere,…
Illuminating Life With Copper By Aaron Ross
Before the etching of the copper alloy begins, there’s a transfer of energy, a spiritual reckoning. Whatever its mystical, metaphysical or psychic source, sculptor Jeffrey Maron becomes the “intermediary,” connecting with a transformative energy that allows him to generate profoundly-evocative…
Spheres of Influence
Before escaping to Barcelona, Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, and the Acropolis, the 13-year-old was bullied daily by rock-throwing schoolmates. She tried to find refuge in her art books, and fantasies. But as she recalls, life in the icy oil fields of…
Dancing to Be Free
Life is a struggle these days. Cloistered in her Brazil apartment, unable to dance before live audiences, ballerina Juliana Rodrigues is facing the pain and frustrations of living in a nation grievously impacted by the Pandemic. She usually lives free. Her…
The Great Illusion
It was a charmed life. Animated dinners with Marc Chagall and Georges Braque, hopscotching from Paris’ Left Bank to the Meditteranean, and driving along the glittering Côte d’Azur. During these evening get-togethers, those art world luminaries would discuss their latest…
Embroidered in the Past By Marjan Samie
As the sun set, and a hush descended on Bandar Kong, the women in their rose-colored dresses made last minute preparations for Hana Bandan. It was “Henna Night,” and each decoration marking this festive “new beginning,” the bliss of marriage,…
Entering Ali Baba’s Cave by Muriel de Lamarzelle
Able to transform plastic pollution into eco-responsible and poetic flowers, William Amor is an ennobler. A self-taught French visual artist, he turns ugly, discarded plastics, consumer products and waste into sublime objects of beauty. The storyteller, vividly and sensually transmitting…
Creatures in the French Woods By Marie Guegain
My hall of death was a daily assault of pressures. I had to console the grieving, arrange various bereavement ceremonies, and also ensure the fire was working properly. Fire is very capricious. Some days it is predictable. Other days it…
Russian Magic
The fantasies are endless, the eternal, sensual sparkle fascinating women. These enticements come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. The common thread is their illumination, how diamonds, rare pearls, earrings, and rings excite the imagination.Particularly Maxim V’s hand-crafted works. A…
An Andalusian Dreamer
It’s the bounteous “land of pomegranates.” Nestled amid golden beaches and the Sierra Nevadas, Andalusia spawned a kingdom known for its Moorish architecture and ceramics. There are still revered Golden Age vestiges of Sephardic culture here, and palatial, fairy tale…