A New Rembrandt Painting Discovered
In 2016, the Dutch art dealer Jan Six purchased a 17th-century portrait of an unidentified young man at a Christie’s auction in London. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 June 2018
Art Forms
Picasso Sighting in New York City—He’s Mowing his Lawn
I looked across the street and saw Pablo Picasso mowing his lawn. He was ten feet tall. He was inside a fence, which was unusual, and the expression...
Howard Schwartz 7 June 2018
Qi Baishi, China’s Master of the Ordinary in an Extraordinary Way
Qi Baishi, is probably the most unlikely person to become one of the highest valued artists in the world, right next to Andy Warhol and Picasso, but...
Barry Russell 26 May 2018
Most Important Works of Joseph Beuys (Birthday Edition)
Today Joseph Beuys would turn 97. He was one of those mysterious artists whose biography can be considered a separate work of art, a legend.
Magda Michalska 12 May 2018
Educating Through Art: What We Can Learn From Frederick Schiller’s Writings
Why Art? Any form of Art is devoted to (providing) joy, and there is not any higher and not any more serious duty than to make the human beings...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 3 May 2018
The Spirit of Ecstasy – A Story of Goddesses and Secret Affairs
The story of the Spirit of Ecstasy is one to be pulled from the gossip columns of London high society. It involves rich and aristocratic benefactors,...
Candy Bedworth 21 April 2018
Let’s Sing Praises to Song Dynasty Genius Artist Ma Yuan
There’s more to the paintings of Ma Yuan than meets the eye. Ma Yuan, (1160-1225) was a Southern Song Dynasty, Chinese painter from an illustrious...
Barry Russell 18 April 2018
Selfie-feminism, the Sad Girl Theory and the Sad Girls of Instagram
A new wave of female artists started to appear on Instagram. They come from various backgrounds, were born in different decades, their styles are...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 11 April 2018
Make Me Beautiful, Madame D’Ora
When I decided to write about Dora Kallmus, more known by her pseudonym Madame d’Ora, I found out that the Leopold Museum in Vienna is going...
Magda Michalska 9 April 2018
Why is Klimt Famous?
Gustav Klimt, born in Austria in 1862, is celebrated as one of the most valued artists in the history of art. But, why is Klimt famous? Why exactly...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 28 March 2018
This Apple Store in Vienna Is Better Than Others- See Why
Just last week, on February 24, Apple unveiled its first retail store in Austria and you can find it on Kärntner Straße, Vienna’s famous high...
Magda Michalska 2 March 2018
And it’s War! The Art Of The War Wounded
Being an English teacher, so much of what I look at is linked to the literary world. With the previous examination specification, we used to be...
Wendy Gray 27 February 2018
