War wrecks lives. I hear of my parents’ struggles through wartime as children and it never ceases to break my heart. Innocent children are thrown into the line of fire, made to suffer through adults’ greed, selfishness, intolerance and unreasoning behaviour. This is the primary goal of young Canadian photographer Dominic Nahr’s work. This series, [...]

The sun was just coming up over the Normandy coast at about 5 a.m. on June 6, 1944 – D-Day.
The Allied navies – Canadian, British, American – had brought a huge invasion fleet from England to France in total darkness. For men on the ships, first light showed the black shapes of other nearby vessels. [...]

Heinz Edelmann is the graphic designer who designed the album sleeve for The Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ album. He passed away today, leaving behind a legacy so closely related and iconic of one of the most influential musical acts in contemporary times.

Was there ever anything that you considered so important that you decided to use your [...]

Opera is such a classical art form that few youngsters these days are interested in it. They are preoccupied with the endless drone of derivative songs, complete with meaningless lyrics, predictable chord progressions and weak musical structures so pervasive in the contemporary music landscape. But perhaps all this disinterest rises from the misperception that opera [...]

Do you think that there is a pure place in art?
I don’t know why but when I read this question I just thought of my perineum — I thought it might be nice to start these questions off with a little free association. Looking for truth or purity in oneself through making art is like [...]

Today, we lost a legendary photographer - a photographer whose work the architectural photography world is greatly indebted to. His name: Julius Schulman. Here he is, photographing Pierre Koenig’s Stahl House, and the fruit of his labour further below.

Shulman began his career in 1936 when he photographed a Richard Neutra house with a vest-pocket camera. [...]

I often hear of negative impressions of life in China. Many people not only bad-mouth China’s current and past political landscape, but ridicule contemporary Chinese art, business practices, and indeed, mentality! A lot of these impressions are based on hearsay and so-called “documentaries” seemingly peppered with personal vendetta; these people have never actually stepped foot [...]

Yuan Shikai (September 16, 1859 – June 6, 1916) was an important Chinese general and politician famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China, and [...]

“Looking at the history of China over the past century, we see a society which has had its culture and politics changed and remade three or four times. Many of these changes have come with conflict and trauma for all the Chinese people. Connections with a long and proud past have been shaken and severed. [...]

In recent years, contemporary Chinese artists have rise to the main stage and are becoming critically acclaimed for the work they produce. I did not grow up in China, but having been through the tough Math/Science-focused curriculum typical of Asian education systems, I can say with confidence that artistic inclination is not recognised as such [...]