I could not learn anything about this young contemporary Chinese painter, except this brief text on their website: “Xi Pan, born in Wenzhou, China, began her first art studies in 1989 at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China. One year later she transferred to the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts where...
Flavian Amphitheatre. Photo: Andreas Tille. Wikipedia. A widespread myth is that the disappearance of the monuments of ancient Rome was caused because they were destroyed by barbarians. Generally, however, they did not. The Romans themselves had more responsibility than anyone in the destruction of...
A girl by the window (oil on canvas, 2000). A powerpoint is rolling on the internet with the paintings of this hyperrealistic style artist. It would be that his work is interesting to people. Iman Maleki (1976, Tehran) started to learn painting at age...
Ofra Haza was one of the most popular singers of Israel in the 80s. Yemeni Jewish descent, she began her career playing music in Yemen and never lost that influence, even when she evolved into a pop singer and introduced electric instruments in her...
These are very strange figures on the surface of the earth. They are visible in Google Earth. Maybe someone says they’re made by aliens, but the facts is they are formed by nature or built by men. It’s not a fake. Here are the...
Photo: Masaaki Kimura Yonaguni Island is a part of Japan’s Ryukyu archipelago. In 1986 under the water around it were discovered what some people say are the ruins of an ancient civilization and others believe it is only natural formations. Masaaki Kimura is a...
In the article Great lesbian songs(*) the author tells us her five favorite songs on lesbianism. Gloria, the Patti Smith version Starpower, de Sonic Youth (sung by Kim Gordon) All the Things She Said, by t.A.T.u. Girls and Boys, by Blur Green Door, by...