Rubens and Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery: Flesh and Spirit
Peter Paul Rubens is so famous for painting voluptuous nudes that his name has become an adjective to describe them. A new exhibition at Dulwich...
Catriona Miller 2 October 2023
Art Forms
Frank Gehry in 10 Designs (That You Can Visit)
In February 1998, Philip Johnson, the godfather of Postmodernism, stood before the shimmering Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and declared Frank...
Julia Bourbois 2 October 2023
Stories of Black Britishness by Lubaina Himid
Winner of prestigious awards, including the Turner Prize, Lubaina Himid has a long and prolific career as an artist, curator, and teacher. Her art...
Natalia Tiberio 1 October 2023
Portraits by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: They Are Black Because I’m Not White
Celebrated in 2018 with a solo show at the New Museum in New York, the English painter of Ghanaian descent Lynette Yiadom-Boakye hypnotized me with...
Magda Michalska 1 October 2023
Shiny Shield with Caravaggio’s Medusa
Caravaggio’s art epitomizes the essence of Baroque art. The artist, known for close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro,...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 September 2023
Masterpiece Story: Bacchus by Caravaggio
A youthful Bacchus, god of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre is reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 September 2023
How Did Caravaggio Die? The Answer Is Not Easy
Caravaggio was a great artist, no doubt about it, but he was also rowdy. An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his...
Zuzanna Stańska 28 September 2023
The Largest Religious Monument in the World: Angkor Wat in Cambodia
The Khmer kingdom thrived in the Cambodian region from the 9th to 15th centuries with an empire that stretched all the way from modern-day Myanmar...
Maya M. Tola 27 September 2023
Masterpiece Story: The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johan Zoffany
Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was a German-born neoclassical painter. In the autumn of 1760, he moved to England and started to work for a clockmaker,...
Klaudia Zelazowska 26 September 2023
Paintings Within Paintings: Time to Go Meta in the Art World
A few years ago, the art world celebrated the complete restoration of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. One of the...
Jimena Escoto 26 September 2023
People, Subways, and Mystery: Rothko’s Early Paintings Will Surprise You
There is no doubt that when we think of Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), we picture his large, abstract canvases with representations of human...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 September 2023
Mark Rothko’s Recipe for a Work of Art
Mark Rothko, one of the most renowned American artists of the postwar era, is widely recognized as an Abstract Expressionist, and his artwork is...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 September 2023
