Art Forms

Academic Art

Constructing Racism in Western Art – Hans Makart and the Case of Cleopatra

When Netflix cast Black actress Adele James as Cleopatra in a docu-series on the life of the famous Egyptian queen, the world went viral in a heated...

Kero Fichter 29 December 2025

Museum Stories

6 Best Works in the Van Gogh Museum That Are Not by Van Gogh

The Van Gogh Museum is dedicated to the life and works of Vincent van Gogh. It holds the largest collection of Van Gogh paintings and drawings in the...

Anastasia Manioudaki 29 December 2025

Artist Stories

Félix Vallotton: Illustrator of Fin de Siècle Paris

Félix Vallotton was a Swiss painter who left his home country to join the artistic nebula of Paris at the fin de siècle—the end of the century.

Kaena Daeppen 29 December 2025

Artist’s paint box with French coastal landscape, c 1930, Guéthary, France, oil on wood panel in wooden paint box, 6.0 x 21.2 x 25.1 cm (closed); Gift of Stella Reeves in memory of her godmother, the artist 2018, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. History

Paint Tube Revolution: How a Single Invention Changed the Course of Western Art

The invention of the collapsible paint tube in the mid-19th century revolutionized the art world with a single squeeze. What had once required...

Natalia Iacobelli 29 December 2025

Long Read

Badass Queens from Classical History

A rollicking adventure through the lives of great leaders and queens from ancient times. Famous female leaders are a fascinating bunch. Here at...

Candy Bedworth, Guest Author 29 December 2025

Painting

Get Inspired: Famous Painters’ Bedrooms

Moving houses is an enterprise, isn’t it? Packing, getting rid of useless but loved items, sending boxes with winter clothes…  Maybe peering...

Magda Michalska 29 December 2025

Women Artists

5 Women Artists Whose Works Were Misattributed to Men

“Why have there been no great women artists?” continues to be a question that pops up all too often. The response can be succinctly summarized...

Anastasia Tsaleza 29 December 2025

Vincent van Gogh, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Detail. Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Green Wheat Fields, Auvers by Vincent van Gogh

Green Wheat Fields, Auvers by Vincent van Gogh is a masterpiece of landscape painting, capturing a beautiful moment in nature. Painted during the...

James W Singer 28 December 2025

Vincent van Gogh, Terrace of a Café at Night, 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. Detail. Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Terrace of a Café at Night by Vincent van Gogh

Terrace of a Café at Night is a subjective expression from Van Gogh that encapsulates a moment in French...

James W Singer 28 December 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Almond Blossom by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime. He was not a financially successful artist, and he was entirely dependent on his...

James W Singer 28 December 2025

Quiz

Guess the Painter by the Detail—Great Albertina Art Quiz

Kate Wojtczak 27 December 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: Time for Some Christmas Art!

Jimena Escoto 27 December 2025