Museums & Exhibitions
Mantegna and Bellini – Brothers in Art?
With this exhibition, the National Gallery in London aims to explore the...
Painting of the Week
Adolph Menzel, The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes)
The 19th century, the age of steel and steam, witnessed not only...
Impressionism
Wilhelm Hansen’s Impressionist Collection that Denmark Refused to Buy
December 8, 2018On the 14th September 1918, Wilhelm Hansen founded one of the finest collections of Impressionist painting in Europe in his summer house not far from Copenhagen. Yet, just four years later his bank went bankrupt and Hansen was...
Ancient
Blues of Bablyon: The Ishtar Gate
December 7, 2018Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian city (modern day Iraq) existed from 18th century to 6th century BCE. Since that time its legend has generated many myths – the Hanging Gardens, the Tower of Babel, and biblical interpretations added to...
Special Occasion & News
The Art Behind the Image of Santa Claus
December 6, 2018Various illustrated depictions of the old St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, have existed for centuries bringing to life his story. Yet, in the end, only one picture spread across different cultures to fix the image of the holiday icon we...
Expressionism
The Dreaming Youths: A Children’s Book That Parents Would Hide From Their Kids
December 5, 2018As many other Oskar Kokoschka’s works, also this one met with mixed feelings from the public. In the end, it was meant to be a children’s picture-book, but its images were penetrated with sensuality and eroticism, too ‘adult’...
Art State of Mind
5 Masterpieces with Multiple Versions
December 4, 2018Authenticity and originality are invaluable aspects of any work of art. But across pages of art history, we can find artworks and masterpieces with multiple versions, and we immediately ask ourselves, why is this? The most common reason...
Museums & Exhibitions
Singapore’s First Minimalism Retrospective
December 3, 2018Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. is a new exhibition which showcases Minimalist art from its beginnings in the 1950s up to the 21st century. For the first time ever a Minimalism exhibition is being held in Southeast Asia. Minimalism: Space....
Painting of the Week
Georges Seurat, The Lighthouse at Honfleur
December 2, 2018Our Painting of the Week is The Lighthouse at Honfleur by Georges Seurat. Since December 2 is Seurat’s birthday, let’s learn a little more about what made his paintings so unique. The first thing you’ll probably notice about...
21st century
Where is the Queen? Black Women in Western Art
December 1, 2018For centuries, black women appeared in Western art as slaves, servants or exotic novelties. But as regal queens and leaders? Shamefully not. Let us remember the woman bearing flowers in the background of Manet’s famous nude Olympia of...
Food
Autumnal Still Lifes for a Tasty Goodbye to Autumn
November 30, 2018I know, I know, astronomical winter begins on the 21st of December but since Thanksgiving and Black Friday are over and all shops have changed their display windows to a reindeer mode, while some people have already put...
Museums & Exhibitions
Intimacy with Egon Schiele at Fondation Louis Vuitton
November 29, 2018Have you ever been under the impression that a piece of art you’re looking at is so powerful that it can subvert the roles of a viewer and a subject? That suddenly it’s you who becomes the observed,...
Cinema
ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place (5th Season Update)
September 13, 2018We love it when pop culture is adopting, using, and remixing art history, and especially when...
Ancient Greece
Six Ancient Greek Sculptures Everyone Should Know
October 25, 2016Greek art and sculpture has had a profound effect for art throughout the ages. Many of...
20th century
Pablo Picasso And His Women
November 28, 2017Pablo Picasso perhaps the most influential and recognizable painter of the 20th century, is well known...
Bodies & Erotic Art
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
February 16, 2017“Ukiyo-e” pictures, pictures of the “floating world.” are famous among everyone interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s...
Mr. Bacchus’ Tours
Through the eyes of Claude Monet
September 7, 2018The eyes of an artist put at the service of art can reveal to us an...
Art History 101
10 Most Scandalous Nudes in Art (NSFW)
September 21, 2017We’re here to let you in on a pretty widely known secret about art history: it...
Artists' Stories
4 Artists Who Suffered Mental Illness (And How It Affected Their Art)
April 4, 2018The painter Vincent Van Gogh is well-known for his artworks and for a particular aspect of...
Painting of the Week
The Story of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom And Its Three Versions
February 24, 2018The Bedroom are among the most famous paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Why “are”? There are three...
20th century
Frida Kahlo And The Symbolism In Her Art
August 8, 2017Frida Kahlo who lived during the first half of the 20th century changed the art history...
Ancient Greece
Greek Mythological Creatures That Combine Female Beauty And Beastly Ugliness
December 8, 2017Gods, goddesses, demigods, horrible monsters and beasts of hybrid forms roam the world of Ancient Greek...
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