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Exciting and true articles about art and creative culture!

With the x-working art magazine we want to keep you always up-to-date with regards to your art form and provide you fresh information on relevant news and insights in your scene. We write about current events, celebrities and important happenings in your area. Enjoy reading and let us entertain you.

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Lydia da Silva´s Palette Art Gallery from inside, (c) Carina Lochner

Interview with Lydia da Silva

Cape Town

South Africa

Crafts + Sculpting

Jeremy Deller`s instructions for leaving the social network Facebook

Jeremy Deller and his Anti-Facebook Campaign

London

United Kingdom

Decorations + Installations

Palm Black Tattoo Studio

Cape Town

South Africa

Body Art

Montebello Design Centre in interview with x-working - from right to left: Tessa, Philip and Ulrich (Montebello Design Centre) and Marijna (interview partner x-working)

Interview with the Heads of the Montebello Design Centre

Cape Town

South Africa

Traditional Design

Interview with the South African Artist Mtini

Cape Town

South Africa

Painting

TRADITIONAL ART

The art magazine with regards to Traditional Art includes all classic art forms, which are not produced by a computer and which are not part of Modern Art and Performing Arts. These in particular include Cooking Culture, Literary Arts, Esoteric & Spirituality, Crafts, Martial Arts, Piercings & Tattoos, Traditional Music and Classics as well as Traditional Designs such as Architectural Design, Fashion Design and Jewellery Design.

Staircase in the Glass Hall of the Leipzig Book Fair, © Amrei-Marie

Leipzig Book Fair 2017

Reading novels is fun. Beeing taken by someone´s hand, who has designed experimental environments and who creates something special with words in the reader's head, is often more than just pleasure. The Leipzig Book Fair started again today.

The symbol of cooking schools - the blue ribbon.

Cooking as Art Form

Cooking well is not only to learn how to hack vegetables or meat roasts. Culinary skills are truly required: To examine and to understand the entire history of cooks, you need to reflect the philosophy of the cuisine. One of the best cooking schools is “Le Cordon Bleu”, at which future chefs get globally educated.

Wrestling

In Wrestling, fictional characters with different personalities, like in movies and TV series, perform a good-versus-evil story. Nevertheless, it is that easy? Alternatively, is wrestling an artistic performance of martial arts? We take a closer look at the spectacle wrestling.

MODERN ART

Modern Art refers to avant-garde and contemporary art. There are Body Art, Decorations, Installations, Interior Design, Painting, Drawing and geometric art architectures in the context of the art magazine. The scope here is certainly very broad and also refers to newer art forms such as Grafitti and Wall Art. Painting with its various art styles is at the center within the art form Modern Art.

Whether with or without headphones: The right sound is not only of importance within the musical enjoyment. A good room acoustics supports concentration and performance.

The Basic of Room Acoustics

Will wonders never cease: But listening is not listening and in case a sound is to amaze us, it requires a good room acoustics. But what represents such a one and how can it be improved? About sound absorbers, stylish sound killers out of felt and the best sound in recording studios, theaters and concert halls:

The first edition of Charlie Hebdo after the attack on the editorial department early 2015

How Caricatures change the World

It was the year 2005 when a global debate about the freedom of religion, press, art and expression has been unleashed. It was the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who sparked this discussion with his Mohammed drawings. Now, 10 years later, a lot has happened in the world - but one thing remains: From the perspective of radical Islamists their prophet must not be shown.

Interview with the Artist Collective 3Steps

Since x-working found its place in introspective Central Hesse, we seized the chance to introduce the impressive artist collective 3Steps from Giessen to you. I met Uwe, one of three artists of the collective, in the 3Steps studio. Joachim joined later. Awarded as “Germany's cultural and creative pilots” by the federal government, they have decisively shaped the cityscape over the past years.

DIGITAL ART

The art dimension Digital Art within the art magazine covers all forms of art that are primarily and mainly produced by the help of one or more computers. These include DJing, MCing, Live Acts, LJs/VJs, Electronic Bands, Video Productions, Photography and Digital Design. With last-mentioned rubric it becomes clear that with regards to the categorization of art forms to Digital Art the digital creative process gets relevant opposed to Traditional Design.

Tangerine Dream

After the death of Edgar Froese (2015), the founding member of Tangerine Dream, it has become very quiet around the electro pioneers. However, they still exist as usual in a new setup. We look back on the impressive path of probably one of the most important representatives of electronic band music.

Infected Mushroom

They are truly a great duo, bringing an insane energy to the dancefloors across the world. Infected Mushroom, teamed up by Erez Eizen and Amit Duvdevani from Israel.

The new Numark NS6 II, thanks to Oliver Munyak, (c) Numark

Highlights of the Musikmesse Frankfurt

This year's Musikmesse in Frankfurt am Main will open its doors again from 5th to 8th April 2017. While the classical music fair will take place on the west side of the exhibition grounds, the Prolight + Sound Fair will be held on the eastern site from 4th April 2017 onwards. Today, we introduce you to the highlights out of the section DJ equipment and DJ controller.

PERFORMING ARTS

Performing Arts refers to all art forms, in which a performance on a stage is the final result. The art magazine includes Acting, Theater, Dance, Vocal Art as well as Biking, Skating & Surfing, since even in these art forms a performance in a broader sense takes place. Erotic Art completes the art dimension Performing Arts in an elegant way aside of a primary need satisfaction.

In the cross-country skiing, skating is a technical professional free style

The Skating Technique in Cross-Country Skiing

Cross-country skiing is very popular with many people. Only very few people are familiar with the several cross-country skiing techniques. On the one hand side, there is the classic style, moreover, there is the free style. Particularly at last-mentioned style, the artistic regarded Skating is applied.

Mick Jagger 2013 at a concert in the Hyde Park, London, (c) Gorupdebesanez

The Mick Jagger Family

The lead singer of the popular British rock band The Rolling Stones has been writing history for half a century. Mick Jagger became father again. The legend of British rock music, which is now 73 years old, has given a boy again. Jagger has eight children from four women, five grandchildren and even a great-grandson.

In Memory of David Bowie in Brixton High Street in London - he was born here.

David Bowie - An Obituary

He was virtuoso. He was an artistic pioneer, who did not commit to one musical style - and who thus set the agenda with his inspirations. David Bowie was an icon of pop culture. He died on 10th January 2016, 69 years, due to cancer. An obituary.