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Personal stories, reflections, and experiences shared by the writer

Contemporary Japanese Artists: A Critic’s Guide
Japan’s studios buzz—ink, pixels, welded steel, algorithms. A postwar avant-garde tradition mixes with post-internet fluency, and the product is at once ceremonial and neon-slick.
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Curation By Sofia Borsch
We live immersed in information — and it’s exhausting: newsletters, blogs, social feeds, chats, ads. While being bombarded with desaturated meanings, we slowly suffocate
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Alcohol Ink: When Chance Becomes a Co-Author
Mediocrity. Few words cut as sharply. For an artist still searching for their voice, it can feel like a final sentence.
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Why do we need art?
The recent sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana and subsequent eating of the latter caused a fresh wave of contemplation on what art is and why it is.
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Art as a Mood, or How to Experience Presence?
Have you ever noticed that a work of art does not so much “communicate” a meaning to you as it changes the atmosphere around you? This is especially true of abstract art.
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Online Art Marketplaces vs. Traditional Galleries: What’s Best for You?
I have often been called & labeled as a ‘creative’ person. And I love beautiful things, be they small or large. At the same time, I am logical and analytical.
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Presencing in Art: Seeing, Feeling, and Becoming
Have you ever stood before a painting and felt like it was looking back at you? Not just something you admire from a distance, but something that senses you too?
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The Emotional Power of Art: How Artists Communicate through Color, Form, and Style
Walk into almost any gallery this month and you’ll see it: a small knot of visitors listing toward one painting, phones half-raised, brows furrowed in concentration. It isn’t always the biggest canvas in the room or even the brightest.
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A walk into the London Frieze Art Fair
I am an outsider at the art fair. I was always afraid of attending private clubs, entering luxury shops or dining at very expensive restaurants. Not because I don’t like to (or can’t) spend but because… well, I don’t know why, I am just afraid.
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