Most of us have ice cream memories from the most important summers of our lives; our favourite childhood ice creams or even sharing ice creams with friends, family and sweethearts. Artist Anna Barlow evokes these very memories with her series of ice cream ceramics, showing in BICHA Gallery, London, until the 14th August. “I have focused on ice cream as it…
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The wedding dress in which “Kate” took the leap from Catherine Middleton to Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, will be displayed in Buckingham Palace from 23rd July to 3rd October. The first ones to visit the exhibition today, are Queen Elizabeth and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Except from the legendary dress designed by Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen, the wedding shoes and jewellery…
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Kikos Lanitis’ paintings have always influenced me since the very first glance. It’s the dynamics that the image obtains by the mixture of figures, rough materials, words and phrases with warm colors, red being his favourite by far. The artist himself says his paintings awake such strong emotions that they are tough to look at. I’d say they “up-set” your mind in a way…
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This is the phrase in which historian Robin Lane Fox describes one of the exhibits at the “Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the age of Democracy”exhibition. Referring to one of the queens’ necklaces displayed since Thursday at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Robin Lane Fox named it “the single most beautiful object in gold on the…
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I’ve been mostly focused on fashion since I started blogging on WordPress last November, but since PaulaTrendsets is a global trendspotting and trendsetting blog about fashion, art and culture, this weekend is dedicated to our Art & Culture section, introducing you to interesting art exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Italy and the UK. Choose from the links below to “visit” the show “Imagine it as Art”…
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