Author Danai Molocha

Danai Molocha

Online Author

Music editor, arts & travel writer, aerial hoops flying practinioner.

Popovy Sisters: A Dollhouse Haunted By Haute Couture

June 30, 2017

The Popovy Sisters, Ekaterina and Elena Popovy, twin sisters from Perm, Russia, have taken doll making into a whole new level. Mesmerized by the charisma of personalities as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and Ma...

Adipocere: The Dark Side of Hand Embroidery

Danai Molocha

June 6, 2017

ART, LATEST POSTS

Sheep, skulls, and spider webs... mountain laurels, moths and dog-strangling vine: Earth's beautiful, curious things find their way into Adipocere's hand embroidery, putting a deviant 21st-century spin on a wel...

Rimel Neffati and the Allure of Imperfection

Danai Molocha

May 1, 2017

Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation

Danai Molocha

April 14, 2017

CULTURE, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

Coughing. Breathing heavily. Rhythmically banging sheets of metal. Confronting mortality - confronting anything that might get in her way. New York artist Pharmakon. a.k.a. Margaret Chardiet has been snarling, ...

“Fun and Cosmopolitan”: The Music of Aksak Maboul in the Words of Founder Marc Hollander

Danai Molocha

March 10, 2017

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

It was 1977 when Marc Hollander and Vincent Kenis formed Aksak Maboul — a Belgian ensemble going down the winding road of avant-rock and pop, just to mention a couple of the ideas floating and flooding their be...

Yang Yongliang’s Ancient Chinese Futurama

Danai Molocha

December 24, 2016

ART, LATEST POSTS

There's an unquestionable serenity and grace permeating Yang Yongliang's work that hardly betrays his 36 years of age. Echoing the imagery and unsurpassable craft of centuries-old paintings by great Chinese mas...

Luci Jockel’s Fantasia of Fauna and Flora

Danai Molocha

December 5, 2016

COUTURE

A pin of cicada shells - you could call it a challenge for the average accessories fan. But then, mortality is not easy to digest in any shape or form. Setting aside the egocentric and ever-lingering tumult...

Swans: Future Destination Unknown

Danai Molocha

September 29, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Michael Gira and his sonic cohorts gave birth to Swans in the famously bleak, dystopian cityscape of early 80's downtown New York. Minimalist, ritualistic and downright brutal, the band delivered a relentle...

Photogasm

Danai Molocha

August 14, 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY

We present our favorite photography finds of the week, sourced from various social media platforms. Enjoy beautiful.bizarre’s weekly Photogasm! Sean Mundy Evelyn Bencicova Ahmed Gaber Tim Tadde...

Beauty Through the Eyes of Valérie Belin

Danai Molocha

July 20, 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY

The 2015 winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet (the global award in photography and sustainability) Valérie Belin has, since the mid-'90s, photographed a series of brides, packets of potato chips, bodybuild...

Joanna Newsom’s 21st Century Harp Revamp

Danai Molocha

May 16, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Since 2004, when Joanna Newsom released her first studio effort The Milk-Eyed Mender via Drag City, something entirely fresh and enigmatic appeared in the sonic horizon of 21st-century folk. A singer-songw...

Photogasm: Damsels In Distress

Danai Molocha

March 13, 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY

We present our favorite photography finds of the week, sourced from various social media platforms. Enjoy beautiful.bizarre’s weekly Photogasm! 'Damsels In Distress' Nan Fe Stefan Gesell Vilaine F...

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Agostino Arrivabene: ‘Hierogamy’ @ Cara Gallery

Danai Molocha

February 13, 2016

EXHIBITIONS

History, art and alchemy go hand-in-hand in Agostino Arrivabene's enigmatic pairings, coming for the first time to New York this March, courtesy of Cara Gallery. "Hierogamy" imaginatively flutters between spiri...

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Jesse Draxler Terror Management™ @ Booth Gallery

Danai Molocha

January 9, 2016

EXHIBITIONS

Keeping up with with Booth Gallery's restless artistic and intellectual explorations, fine artist, illustrator, art director and designer Jesse Draxler brings to life, in unapologetically surreal, dadaist, expr...

Jamie Hewlett & the Suggestive Power of Things

Danai Molocha

January 1, 2016

PHOTOGRAPHY

The punk-inspired, post-apocalyptic strips of Tank Girl first made a countercultural comic art hero of Jamie Hewlett in the tail end of the '80s...Until his collaboration with instrumental Britpop figure Damon ...

The Benevolent Monsters of Johan Potma & Mateo Dineen: Interview

Danai Molocha

December 2, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

This is Zozoville. An extraordinary, fuzzy, and snug place where life has a million colours and no one has to be perfect. Well, so long as they are fluent in monster language. I first became familiar with th...

Guerrilla Zoo ‘Modern Panic VI’ @ Apiary Studios

Danai Molocha

November 21, 2015

EXHIBITIONS

On November 13, Guerrilla Zoo presented 'Modern Panic VI', an extraordinary patchwork of distraught urban mutants, comic sex toys, social caricatures, beheaded clowns, and unyielding live art provocateurs. Unt...

Spill Festival of Performance: On Spirit

Danai Molocha

November 5, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS

Now on its 7th year, SPILL Festival of Performance opened in London last Wednesday, October 28, 2015, breathing fresh theatrical air with its artists bold spirit. Combining live art, activism and performance wi...

19 Artists to Watch from the IMC Art Program in 2019

Michelle Lynn Doll Interview: Painting Intimate Portraits of True Love

Your Favorite Instagram Posts of 2019

Jessica Dalva TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Image-maker Nick Knight: Capturing AI Innovation in Fashion

Sera Gamble TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

The Eventual Triumph Over Darkness: An Interview with KERLI

The Photography of Mario Sorrenti: A Democratic Celebration of Beauty

Dressing the Celtic Soul with Craggane Designs

Kat Von D Launches “Von D Shoes” on World Vegan Day

Raw and Naked: Exclusive Interview with Gina Harrison

The Edgy Couture of Claudia Savage: Interview with Designer Natalie Hutton

Top 100 Wearable Art Designers on Instagram

Fashion, Fetish and Freedom: The Ethical Avante-Garde RITUAL

The Narrative Wearable Art of Breath & Stone

Popovy Sisters: A Dollhouse Haunted By Haute Couture

Adipocere: The Dark Side of Hand Embroidery

Rimel Neffati and the Allure of Imperfection

Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation

“Fun and Cosmopolitan”: The Music of Aksak Maboul in the Words of Founder Marc Hollander

Yang Yongliang’s Ancient Chinese Futurama

Luci Jockel’s Fantasia of Fauna and Flora

Swans: Future Destination Unknown

Photogasm

Beauty Through the Eyes of Valérie Belin

Joanna Newsom’s 21st Century Harp Revamp

Photogasm: Damsels In Distress

Agostino Arrivabene: ‘Hierogamy’ @ Cara Gallery

Jesse Draxler Terror Management™ @ Booth Gallery

Jamie Hewlett & the Suggestive Power of Things

The Benevolent Monsters of Johan Potma & Mateo Dineen: Interview

Guerrilla Zoo ‘Modern Panic VI’ @ Apiary Studios

Spill Festival of Performance: On Spirit