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Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton is a must-read on a topic that is so rarely talked about. Interviews were done over a year with nineteen people of different ranges of ages, genders, and sexualities about everything related to porn. After you finish it, give it to your close ones.

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm is an anthological collection of essays closely portraying painters, photographers, writers, and critics. The dirty laundry of the art world exposed throughout the decades.

Do You Remember Being Born? A novel by Sean Michaels is a love letter to poetry, the nature of language, and art, with the most popular question: Will A.I. change art forever?

The Crossdresser’s Secret by Brian O’Doherty is a historical fiction novel following the mysterious figure of Chevalier d’Eon, who lived as both a man and a woman. It is an 18th-century spy diary through the lens of a celebrity figure, written by an artist and awarded critic.

Females, by Andrea Long Chu „Everyone is female, and everyone hates It.“ This is a pure ride on what it means to be a woman, you will have a love-hate relationship with it, and this is what should happen; you will learn, laugh, and underline.

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Note: This text is part of our WallArt Journal #2, which we specially produced for the SPARK Art Fair 2024 in Vienna. You can find copies around Vienna, or if you want to have one, feel free to contact us.

There is a similarity between detective stories and visiting an art exhibition: in both we are looking for clues. This is how art criticism turned me into a voyeur or you could also call it a detective figure.

So on this occasion, we took a chance to bring you closer to the process and history of the Raku technique, born in Japan and brought by Bernard Leach to the West—actually to England in the 1920s.

… to the Helmut Lang Archive (MAK). In 2005, he left the fashion world and the brand where he was the main designer from its establishment, and which today still holds his name.

Pia Aydt, born in 1998, lives and works in Vienna. She studies fine arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, focusing on drawing. Her work strongly revolves around ambivalent emotions.

The Saun Santipreecha’s solo show engages with three novels by Italo Calvino—If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Invisible Cities, and Mr. Palomar—as well as the three cities: Bangkok, Los Angeles, Rome.

On the 18th of March Tirana Art Lab will reveal a permanent installation by internationally acclaimed artist Karolina Halatek. The light installation invites viewers to immerse.

Erjola Zhuka’s aim is to celebrate human potential, forge new ways of being, and challenge normes imposed by contemporary societies. The phrase „As if you know nothing“ captures …

Upon the release of their latest single, „Wir sind bereit,“ we meet the frontman Peter Englert from the German band The Döftels. Englert tells Les Nouveaux Riches what influences them.

When you start writing, you never know where you will land, – says An during our last class. I want to continue genuinely seeing and feeling the art of those artists I work with, akin to T.J. Clark’s approach.

Emma Kling’s diploma thesis received the Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize 2024. The work subtly addresses latent power dynamics within the context of art history. A Review by Katharina Hoffmann.

Andrej Korec is a professional in his sphere. His studio sources materials locally and primarily cater to artists seeking large-scale canvases. Andrej’s dedication to quality is of prime importance.

Inspired by the work of photographer David LaChapelle and the colorful aesthetic of filmmaker Gregg Araki, his gently provocative and cinematic body of work stands out for its excessive use of colors.

Delphine Lamarque is a textile artist. Her work is strongly linked to architecture and the notion of the « nest ». For a life-size immersion, she reworks tent canvases from the 1970s and 1980s.

Alessandro Miotti, born in Marostica, currently lives and works in Venice and is a member of the studio „zolforosso.“ He graduated in 2023 from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in Visual Arts Level II.

Diana Tarhonii and Vladyslav Prozorenko are a contemporary artist couple known as PROZZORRR. Vladyslav hails from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, while Diana was born in the small town of Kostopil.