Art Movements

Art movements quiz: Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory", Quiz

QUIZ: Brush Up Your Art History! Guess the Art Movement

Tommy Thiange 22 March 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: Women Artists from the Rococo Era

Ela Bobek, 22 March 2025

Renaissance

Here’s an EASY QUIZ about Leonardo da Vinci. Will You Get 100% Correct Answers?

Zuzanna Stańska 22 March 2025

Women Artists

The Divine Sarah: Sarah Bernhardt, The First Artist Superstar

While we are all familiar with celebrity culture and can recognize all of the Kardashians by their silhouettes, the idea of ‘celebrity’ is not a...

Wendy Gray 21 March 2025

Review

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

Painting

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

Nan Goldin, Self-portrait with eyes turned inward, Boston, 1989. © Nan Goldin. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Review

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

Women Artists

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

Surrealism

(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

Post-Impressionism

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 Stories

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

Arpita Shah Modern Muse Photography

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