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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.

The Djembe is played with bare hands. It comes with a wide spectrum of sounds.

A Music marked by Culture, Values and History

Hardly any music is connected with its culture and values like the traditional African music. Despite Arabization, colonization and the influence of different regions, this music is tradition and gets protected until today. It consists of more than sounds or drum beats, it is the language of an entire continent.

Street musicians playing guitar on the Piazza Signora in Florence, Italy.

Fascination Street Musicians

They are at home on the streets of the world. Musicians travel through cities, present their art to entertain others on roads, bridges and subway stations. Many of their texts are about freedom, desires and big dreams. As a solo entertainer or playing music in groups - street musicians belong to the image of a city and revitalize the sometimes dreary everyday life along the way.

The onion soup is known worldwide. It evolved in France, more precisely in Paris, and is now considered as plain fare in an adapted form in many countries.

UNESCO puts the Tart Variety under Protection

France is the country of passions. Both, in terms of romantic love and regarding the love of food. Which country is associated with that many delicacies such as crepe, macaroons, baguette, cheese, croissants, mussels, wine ...? The French cuisine is an integral part of the famous "Savoir-vivre". The UNESCO has officially approved this fact in 2010.

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.

Christie’s Rockefeller Center, New York City, (c) David Shankbone

Expensive Art - Part 1

Russian artists are very popular. Their artworks can be found in the most prestigious museums around the world, as well as in private collections. The peculiarity of Russian visual art is a kind of uniqueness, individuality and inconsistency. Today, x-working presents the most popular paintings of Russian artists.

Olafur Eliasson

He is one of the most successful conceptual artists in the world. His installations inspire many people, straight or just because they work a lot with the elements of light, water and air. The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been very successful both inside and outside the art world. We introduce him and his projects.

Bagelheads, Full Body Tattoos and Piercings

Their wearers refer to body art. For many, the extreme styles of body art, however, are rather creepy events. We present the trends of the body modification scene and look behind the curtains of extreme body art artists.

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.

Drum'n'Bass is preferably still played on turntables.

The History of Drum'n'Bass

The name goes back to the early Drum'n'Bass 90s in England. At a speed of 160 to 190 BPM, the British breakbeat scene developed a new style of music that continues to evolve to this day. Those days many artists published their music on sometimes very unknown, own independent labels.

Digital Painting

For many in the art world, digital painting is not a "real" painting. Whereat it has equally artistic standards as traditional arts. On the contrary, with a view on digital painting one can identify all sorts of advantages. Insights into the digital painting is the content of this article.

Creating virtual worlds is now easier than ever. © MoBen

How Virtual Reality revolutionizes Storytelling

Men always wanted to create virtual realities. The technical development now makes it possible to create virtual worlds comparatively easy. Innovative business models conquer the advertising world. We provide you some exciting best practice examples in this article.

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.

Wagner invades in Cuba

After Barak Obama visited Havana on a historical get-together in spring of 2016, it can no longer be denied: Cuba opens to the world. Therefore, it happened that another special guest conquered the island - Richard Wagner with his Tannhäuser.

The Grönholm Method, the hardest selection procedure the theater scene.

The Gronholm Method. An incredible Job Interview

One of the most famous and longest performed play of the Spanish theater scene is the Grönholm method. And not just in the national scene. At international level, this piece had (even still) represented a great success and is presented in many places around the world.

The Tango

Born out of the immigrant´s nostalgia of Buenos Aires in the 1880s, the passionate Tango with its many styles began its triumphal procession throughout the world. Its exact origins are obscure. What is clear is, that it was born and developed out of a despair and a very human desire for a beautiful and good life.