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Renoir: A Gust of Wind - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted A Gust of Wind  around 1872, in the early years of Impressionism. The painting, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, captures a moment in nature that is both ordinary and magical, a sudden movement of air sweeping across a field. There is no central figure, no fixed narrative, only the energy of wind made visible through paint. Standing before the painting, the first impression is one

We often think of architecture as something separate from nature, as if cities and buildings belong to one world, and forests and rivers to another. But this division is misleading. Every building we make begins with the materials of the earth and is shaped by the same natural forces that shape everything else. Stone, clay, timber, and glass are all part of the same world we inhabit. The built environment is not outside nature; it is one of its forms. The Illusion of Separati

Art has always reflected its time, and our time moves quickly. The speed of art may simply mirror the pace of the culture that surrounds it.