Alexander Fleming’s Microbial Art
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2018
Alexander Fleming is widely known as the brilliant microbiologist who gave the world the miraculous life-saving drug called antibiotic. But ...
Showing posts with the label Art & Design
Netherlandish Proverbs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2018
Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...
Copenhagen’s Urban Birdhouses
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2017
Thomas Dambo—you may remember him from a couple of months ago, where he constructed giant troll-like wooden sculptures and hid them around ...
The Spectacular Sets of Early 20th Century New York Theater
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2017
Many theatrical set designers today follow the maxim of “less is more”, but in the old days when theaters had to compete with moving picture...
Giant Hand Sculptures Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2017
The other day, a pair of giant hands appeared rising out of a canal in Venice, as if to support the sides of the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. It was a...
Alex Chinneck’s Architectural Illusions
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2017
A historic building in London’s Covent Garden, violently slashed through the middle, floats mysteriously in the air with no apparent support...
Djerbahood: The Street Art Drive That Transformed A Tunisian Village
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2017
The sleepy little village of Erriadh on the island of Djerba—once known as the “island of dreams”— is not part of Tunisia’s tourist circuit....
Thomasson: Architectural Relics That Serve No Purpose
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2017
A city is like a living organism, constantly growing and evolving with time. Buildings get renovated, new structures are added and old ones ...
Ecce Homo: The Botched Painting That Saved a Town
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2017
Eighty-three year old amateur artist Cecilia Giménez had nothing but good intentions when she turned her attention towards a deteriorating f...
The Museum of Bad Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2017
On rare occasions, a thrift store or a pawnshop can yield items of extreme value, but these are hardly the places you can expect to bump int...
