Intersection of Coffee and Creating: Coffee Shops and Their Purpose
The actual art of coffee making has steadily been growing for years. We have surpassed and moved past instant coffee, onto specialty coffee shops and...
Rachel Witte 5 February 2019
Art Movements
Aristarkh Lentulov’s Cubist Russia
Recently I showed you views of typical wintery Russia by Korovin, which you can see here. Today we’ll see instead something out-of-ordinary.
Magda Michalska 2 February 2019
More Light! – Canary Wharf Winter Lights
Canary Wharf Winter Lights returns for the fifth time with a dose of light much needed in the post-holiday season. This year’s edition features 21...
Joanna Kaszubowska 21 January 2019
Masterpiece Story: The Bathers by Paul Cézanne
When little Paul was born on 19th January 1839 nobody could expect that he will revolutionize painting with developing a unique style and influence a...
Kate Wojtczak 20 January 2019
The Complicated Meaning and Mysterious Origin of The Cloisters Cross
The Cloisters Cross is a beautiful English Romanesque walrus ivory cross, likely dating to the middle of the 12th century. From the moment it...
Alexandra Kiely 19 January 2019
Epic Abstraction: An Enhanced Perspective
‘Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera’ is an ongoing exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that opened on December 17, 2018. The...
Howard Schwartz 17 January 2019
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Last week the Städel Museum in Frankfurt posted on Instagram a painting from their collection with a funny quote: “Having a bad day? Always...
Kate Wojtczak 13 January 2019
Painting of the Week: Giotto di Bondone, Adoration of the Magi
January 6 in the Christian calendar is a day devoted to the Magi. According to the Bible, Three Wise Men from the East come to Bethlehem to visit...
Kate Wojtczak 6 January 2019
Painting of the Week: Jacopo Tintoretto, Marriage at Cana
Because it’s the New Year’s Eve tomorrow and many of you are going to have fun I’ve chosen for our painting of the week a work...
Kate Wojtczak 30 December 2018
Wilhelm Hansen’s Impressionist Collection that Denmark Refused to Buy
On the 14th September 1918, Wilhelm Hansen founded one of the finest collections of Impressionist painting in Europe in his summer house not far from...
Magda Michalska 8 December 2018
Crash Course in Impressionism – Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne
The Courtauld Gallery will remain closed for a while, as it is being transformed. But this does not mean we cannot see the Impressionist masterpieces...
Joanna Kaszubowska 8 November 2018
Masterpiece Story: Autumn Effects at Argenteuil by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted Autumn Effects at Argenteuil in late 1873, which was the moment when the Impressionist movement started to roar on the Paris art...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 October 2018
