Rebel, Rebel: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
If I asked for your top 10 political artists, does Claude Cahun spring to mind? Marcel Moore? No, I guessed as much. But these two art activists had...
Candy Bedworth 21 March 2025
Art Movements
The First Abstract Expressionists: Carl Jung and Hilma af Klint
Before the art world embraced her as a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, Hilma af Klint hid her revolutionary works behind layers of secrecy, driven...
Guest Author 20 March 2025
This Will Not End Well by Nan Goldin: The International Tour
In her latest solo exhibition, American photographer Nan Goldin immerses viewers in the intimate highs and lows of the human experience—not as...
Emily Snow 20 March 2025
Lee Miller—Photographer of the Extremes
Lee Miller (1907–1977) was a fashion and war photographer, a model, a muse, and a gourmet cook. She lived life to the fullest with all its bright...
Joanna Kaszubowska 20 March 2025
(Sur)reality in the Photography of Kati Horna
Kati Horna (1912-2000) photographed both the real world and the surreal. She was a modern photographer who used her camera to document a civil war...
Natalia Tiberio 20 March 2025
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh
Everyone knows Van Gogh’s Starry Night, or his Sunflowers or that he cut off his ear. The name Vincent van Gogh is now a household name,...
Ledys Chemin 17 March 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Sentry by Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius (Dutch, 1622–1654) died at age 32 in a gunpowder explosion in Delft, a disaster that presumably destroyed many of his paintings. We...
Tom Anderson 17 March 2025
Modern Muse: Arpita Shah’s Feminist Take on Mughal Portraiture
Staging an intervention in art history, and specifically in Indian miniature portraiture, Arpita Shah replaces male Mughal emperors with inspiring...
Guest Author 17 March 2025
12 Indian Female Artists Portraying Other Women
The depiction of women has been essential imagery in the course of Indian art since the ancient era. Associated with fertility, abundance, and...
Guest Author 17 March 2025
Michael West, Woman Artist Excluded from the Ab-E Gang
The American art world in the era of the post-war boom of Abstract Expressionism was definitely male-oriented. That is the reason why Corinne...
Magda Michalska 17 March 2025
Iranian Mirror Mosaics of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019) was a contemporary Iranian artist who became a living legend while she was still alive. Her oeuvre...
Marga Patterson 17 March 2025
Yayoi Kusama and Her World of Polka Dots
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer, born in 1929. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 March 2025
