Artworks That Were Hung Upside Down
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2023
Art evoke emotions, provoke thoughts, and inspire, but it also challenges our perception because art eludes simple definition. The baffling ...
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Spot The Woman
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2022
For much of history, women have been forced to occupy a position one notch lower than that of men. This is very apparent when you look at ol...
Danila Tkachenko’s Ghostly Photographs of Abandoned Soviet Military Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2021
In his series “Restricted Areas”, Moscow-based visual artist Danila Tkachenko looks at the human impulse to use destructive technologies in ...
The Artist Who Got Carried Away: The Story of The Peacock Room
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2020
In 1876, the British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland bought himself a grand house at 49 Princes Gate in the fashionable neighb...
Digitally Reconstructed Medieval Castles
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2020
Europe is known for its magnificent castles and fortresses, but only a few survive in their original form. Since reconstructing them would b...
Terrible National Park Reviews Illustrated
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2020
The wonderful thing about online reviews is that you will find both five-star and one-star reviews for the exact same product, and this incl...
The Wonderful Art of Missing Pet Posters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2019
“Have you scene [sic] my CAT ?”, pleaded a crude hand-made poster. Underneath it was a sketch of the missing cat, apparently drawn by a chi...
Barge Haulers on The Volga
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2019
Before the era of steam engines, the process of moving a boat or a barge up a river was extremely difficult. The usual method was to tow the...
The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
In 1993, while rummaging through a junk shop in Vienna, Austria, artist Oliver Croy made an extraordinary discovery—hundreds of beautiful, ...
Carrières de Lumières: An Immersive Art Gallery in a Disused Quarry
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2019
In the Les Baux-de-Provence of southern France, is located Carrières de Lumières , or the Quarries of Light—an unusual multimedia exhibit sp...
