A history of cities in 50 buildingsCitiesChhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai's iconic railway station – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 20The old Victoria Terminus was the first truly public building in Bombay. So when it became a target of the 2008 terrorist attacks, what was violated was much more than just a railway station
Almost anyone who has lived in Mumbai has paused in the common area at the head of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus suburban train platforms – not least to relieve the pervading mugginess by getting in the way of the industrial strength blowers that pass for fans. Read More...
ArtHistory remembers her as Picasso’s muse but Maar was an unflinching artist who infiltrated the surrealists’ boys club – and helped paint Guernica When Dora Maar died on 16 July 1997 at the age of 89, few people seemed to notice. It took the French newspaper Le Monde – in her home country – 10 days to publish anything. And when journalists did cotton on, they didn’t seem to think Maar was the story. Read More...
Frank Auerbach’s early charcoal portraits look deep into human life – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email For this series of large-scale charcoal portraits made between 1956 and 1962, the German-British painter Frank Auerbach drew his sitters over and over again, erasing the image after each session so that only a ghostly outline remained. He repeated the process until he felt he had captured the person’s essence; often the paper would rip. Read More...