Prima Materia shares short posts that feature individual artworks, naming the artist, title, year and sometimes a link. The excerpts show works by Bruce McGaw, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Nunzio Paci, with little accompanying commentary.
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Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
An artist-author shares behind-the-scenes accounts of how his paintings, especially the Dinotopia series, were made. Readers get practical detail on preparatory studies, model posing, maquettes and sources of inspiration.
A literary newsletter by novelist Elif Shafak that weaves reflections on paintings, books, folklore and storytelling traditions with drawn-from-notebook anecdotes and news of her own work. Readers get personal, essayistic meditations on how stories and ideas travel across cultures.
A multilingual publishing program pairing art criticism and essays on art, society, poverty and wealth, with pieces on exhibitions such as Anna Boghiguian's Armenian carpet work and Van Abbemuseum's Museum as Sundial. Readers get essayistic, interview-based writing on contemporary art and its political and economic conditions.
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