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Welcome to Women’s History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting tributes to some of the Swans who have made the greatest impact on our own lives. These are names & faces everyone should know!
In order to find her personal identity and voice as a filmmaker, Lina Soualem first had to look into her past.… read more.
Happy Black History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting some of our favorite Black Swans with names & faces everyone should know!
I had the opportunity to see Chicago-based exhibition space Wrightwood 659’s Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art that showcases the work of 17 contemporary artists about technology and art.… read more.
No doubt, it’s by coincidence that Brooklyn-based painter Amanda Wall’s latest work hails from the burgeoning artistic idiom of spiritual art so presciently described by Lisa Slominski’s article, “Spiritual Art” in February 2023. Or, perhaps it’s a phenomenon attesting to the current zeitgeist. In many ways, it mirrors a similar historical moment in the late 19th century and early 20th century in the US and Europe.… read more.
Taylor Swift, Bill T. Jones, Shakira, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They’re all famous. But why isn’t Loie Fuller, the artist that influenced them all?
A modern dance trailblazer and pioneer of theatrical lighting techniques, Loie Fuller (1862-1928) has impacted and inspired generations of dancers, musicians, fashion designers.… read more.
On this day five years ago, The Divine Order was released. We’re celebrating its writer and director, Petra Volpe.
Petra Volpe is a Swiss filmmaker, best known for her film The Divine Order, which was released in 2017. The Divine Order is about women’s suffrage in Sweden, where women did not have the right to vote until the 1970s.… read more.