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Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.

Blue pigments of the past have often been expensive (ultramarine blue was made from the gemstone lapis lazuli, ground up), poisonous (cobalt blue is a possible carcinogen and Prussian blue, another well-known pigment, can leach cyanide) or apt to fade (many of the organic ones fall apart when exposed to acid or heat).

So it was a plea… Continue

Margarete Heymann, who studied ceramics there from 1920 to 1921, and was as gifted and gutsy as her famous contemporaries. She also created an impressive body of work, yet is rarely mentioned in the many books, essays and exhibitions on the Bauhaus. Why?

“It’s a tragic story,” said Anja Baumhoff, a lecturer in a… Continue

October 30, 2009

Dum spiro, spero (While I breathe, I hope)
EVER SPERO
By Hans Ulrich Obrist

In memory of Nancy Spero (1926–2009)
"The one thing that artists must possess above all other qualiti… Continue