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This is our guest profile for occasional authors. If you have an interesting story about art to tell, send it to our Editor-in-chief Kate at [email protected]. You might be the next here!

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Women Artists

Tracey Emin in 10 Artworks

Tracey Emin is one of the most prolific artists of our generation; perhaps one of the few capable of triggering such profound and disruptive emotions...

Guest Author 13 July 2026

Symbolism

Want to Hear a Painting? Discover Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Have you ever looked at a painting and could swear that it was about to start moving? As if the frame could continue when you turn away. Have you...

Guest Author 10 July 2026

European Art

Did Pieter Bruegel Play Dice? The Story of Seemingly Insignificant Detail

Pieter Bruegel The Elder was a prominent Flemish painter of the 16th century, famed for his vivid, often humorous depictions of peasant life and...

Guest Author 2 July 2026

WTF Art History

When Rome Put a Dead Pope on Trial—The Cadaver Synod

In a career that spanned over two decades, Jean-Paul Laurens painted some of French art’s most plaintive historical moments: two young princes...

Guest Author 2 July 2026

Painting

Life Imitates Art—M. K. Čiurlionis’ Paintings and Hubble Telescope Photos

The stars, the moon, the sun—all celestial bodies have inspired art for centuries. However, as we look at Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’...

Guest Author 30 June 2026

Architecture

Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell as a Prototype for the Theme Park

With the opening of Disneyland in 1955, Walt Disney introduced visitors to an amusement park where the attractions and features are clustered around...

Guest Author 26 June 2026

Photography

Eli Rezkallah: I Created My Own Fantasy World

We all know the iconic lyrics for the James Brown song “It’s a Man’s Man’s World”. Since 1966, it reminds us that the world has always been...

Guest Author 17 June 2026

Artist Stories

Between Word and Image: The Creative Mind of David Jones

David Jones (1895–1974) was an artist, poet, writer and craftsman; a name synonymous with the Modernist era but one that still remains lesser known...

Guest Author 15 June 2026

Music

Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait (Or Is It?)

“I paint landscapes, I paint nudes / I contain multitudes,” Dylan smokily croons on his contemplative 2020 pastiche, Rough and Rowdy Ways. The...

Guest Author 15 June 2026

European Art

10 Rembrandt Etchings You Need to See This Summer in Amsterdam

In Rembrandt’s prints, you can see the whole of life passing you by, from the cradle to the grave. Every stage of life held something...

Guest Author 12 June 2026