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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 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.

Particularly in the Middle Ages religious wars were fought by the sword.

The European Swordplay

The European swordplay looks back on a long tradition. It is referred to as historical martial arts and underlies the medieval and early modern fencing with swords in Europe. Especially the Romantic era is inevitably linked with the term swordplay.

Jochen Distelmeyer, picture from Christian Kadluba

Criticism to Jochen Distelmeyer`s Debut Novel "Otis"

He shaped an entire generation with his band "Blumfeld". He proved that pop music might also be politically. Last year he published his first novel "Otis". The story is told quickly: Tristan Funke in the mid-thirties is abandoned by his wife. He quits his job, moves from Hamburg to Berlin and tries to be a writer.

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.

Work by Alice Pasquini in Salerno, Italy

Women in the Street Art Scene

In the street art scene, it is just the way that most artists are men. Everyone knows the brands from Banksy or BLEK over Frank Shepard Fairy or Sten and Lex. However, there are also internationally successful women in the scene. We introduce you four of them.

A wedding Mehndi lasts up to nine hours.

The Art of Mehndi

Mehndis are artful ornamental body paintings that are used in India, Persia, the Arab heartlands, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan especially in the context of weddings ceremonies. Here the bride gets an artful paint on her hands, arms and feet two days before her wedding.

Berlin turns out to be an experimental setting for the international art market

Every Art Fair needs a Profile

It is clear that no one always wants to see the same galleries and artists in the world. The art market in Berlin is not yet that broadly positioned than in New York or London. The Art Berlin Contemporary has over the years moulted itself to a Berlin hobbyhorse wanting to change this situation.

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.

The Sound Designer Oliver Pinelli

He is considered as one of the best producers and sound designers in the German-speaking countries: Oliver Pinelli. Already nominated for the "ECHO" Price, the in 1968 in Berlin born artists has now settled in the countryside of Austria.

Michael Jackson's videos have significantly changed the music video production.

The History of Music Video Production

A piece of music without an according video - unthinkable today. As at August 1, 1981 MTV goes on air, this had an impact on the entire music industry. Even before the music channel influenced the market, music videos were used to highlight sound. In 1975 "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen was the starting point of the genre music videos that revolutionized everything.

To catch the feelings of dancers with the camera makes a good festival picture. photo (c) by Bobby C. Alkabes

Festival Photography

Life moves fast. The unsharpness lies in many moments. On festivals every individual moves and celebrates for her- or himself together with the crowd. To capture these fragments of individuals and to realise the joy of music and the people is the job of professional festival photographers around the world.

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.

The Oscar - the most coveted film award in the world

And the Oscar goes to…

Every year in spring, the coveted American Film Award creates a huge sensationr. Although only 35 cm high made of a massive nickel-copper-silver body and covered with a 24-carat gold thin skin, the Oscar as the largest and most important award of the film industry shines. He can look back on a long history, which began on February 12th 1929.

The life of Oleg Popov on the big circus stage - © by Patrick Glanz

Oleg Popov - an Obituary

The world-famous Russian clown Oleg Popov is dead. He died on Wednesday evening at the age of 86 during a tour in the South-Russian Rostow. Apparently, it was a peaceful death that he had simply fallen asleep in the evening while watching TV. We look back at the incredibly funny career of the most popular clown ever.

Top5: The best Skateboard Videos 2016

Last year, we enjoyed numerous clips, in which the skate pros in the world have shown us what they are able to do. Some of them have been particularly memorable. We introduce you to five of them.