Controversial or Criminal? Problematic Artists and Cancel Culture
Great art pushes boundaries and challenge norms. But how should we react to works by artists with a history of truly horrifying behaviour?
Candy Bedworth 18 December 2023
Great art pushes boundaries and challenge norms. But how should we react to works by artists with a history of truly horrifying behaviour?
Candy Bedworth 18 December 2023
Banksy is an artist who became famous all over the world for his clever political and social graffiti. He always denounces injustice, inequality, and...
Camilla de Laurentis 18 December 2023
From dancing colors to a kinetic steel monument, discover the lives and works of five influential and international modern artists – each of whom...
Emily Snow 18 December 2023
When you think of Catalonia, and especially Barcelona, the first name that comes to mind is, of course, that of Antoni Gaudí, but Catalan art at the...
Joanna Kaszubowska 18 December 2023
One of the greatest masterpieces of Western art, Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, presents Cecilia Gallerani (ca. 1473-1536). Young,...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 December 2023
Just about everyone has heard of Edgar Degas, the famous painter of dancers. However, the works Degas created in modern America’s favorite party...
Abreeza Thomas 18 December 2023
You open your eyes to the early morning light filtering through your windows. You instantly feel the cold air of the bedroom as you see your warm...
James W Singer 17 December 2023
Berthe Morisot was closely associated with French Impressionism and actively participated in seven out of eight group exhibitions. She maintained...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 December 2023
Claude Monet, the master of Impressionism, loved to paint in series. The one with haystacks (in French called meules) is his most well-known, and was...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 December 2023
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is considered Édouard Manet’s last major painting. Presented in the Paris Salon of 1882, just a year before the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 17 December 2023
Remedios Varo (1908-1963) was a 20th-century Surrealist painter. Born in Spain, she was forced to move to France and Mexico to escape the Spanish...
Jimena Escoto 16 December 2023
Maria Anto (Maria Czarnecka) was a late 20th-century Polish painter. She created a series of paintings in the genre of magical realism, depicting...
Pola Otterstein 16 December 2023