Art Michael Jarrold Art Michael Jarrold

Mitchell Messina’s Orderly Chaos

Mitchell Gilbert Messina, an experimental South African artist, has an intuition for blending satisfactory design with intentional artistry. He recently added co-founder of the artist-run Under Projects gallery space to his list of constantly growing roles.

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Art Kiara Braum Art Kiara Braum

The beautiful missing perspective: Venus figurines and female self-representation

How do you see yourself? What do you look like? Can you represent yourself? The Venus figurines are small figures made from stone, ivory, bone or clay. They all portray round women with heavy breasts and full thighs and bellies. Most come from the Grattavian period, that's about 25,000 years ago. They are considered by most historians as some of the first prehistoric art.

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