Meet the Ukrainian Railroad Ladies
Every once in a while there appears a piece of news describing a quirky, unknown, or forgotten occupation. Sometimes it’s the lightkeepers in a...
Joanna Kaszubowska 16 March 2022
Art Movements
Tomás Saraceno at The Shed and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Tomás Saraceno is an Argentina-born, Berlin-based artist and community activist who has filled two New York City spaces with the wonders of spider...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 14 March 2022
Moving Dialogues Between Art History and The Syrian War
And yet another war. The only thing that I can do about it, apart from donating to humanitarian aid organizations, pressuring my government to take...
Magda Michalska 14 March 2022
Painting Human Desire for Happiness – Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
When we think of Gustav Klimt we imagine beautiful portraits of women, sensual and dangerous compositions, gold and decorative motifs. However, if...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 March 2022
Both/And: The Art of Glenys Barton
There are many social, political, scientific, and economic models that are embracing the idea of the “both/and” philosophy. It is my...
Candy Bedworth 10 March 2022
Joan Mitchell: An American in France
Who hasn’t dreamt of moving to Paris at some point in their life? The city where the Impressionists started their careers in the picturesque...
Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 7 March 2022
Why Political Actionism Is So Popular in Russia
The sources of Russian political actionism are in the unofficial art of the 1960s. Nonconformism emerged in a country where kitschy socialist realism...
Diana Sadretdinova 7 March 2022
Michelangelo’s Pieta: An Ode to the Sublime
The Pietà – or Virgin of Pity – is the representation of the Blessed Virgin holding her divine son on her knees. This iconic type...
Montaine Dumont 6 March 2022
Want to Insult Your Enemy? Get Inspired by the Badass Zaporozhian Cossacks!
There are dozens if not hundreds of forged documents in the history of the world. They weren’t forged just for fun. Some of them were the basis...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 March 2022
Stretching the Body – A Reflection on the Representation of the Human Figure
In Northern Italy, in Turin, you can find the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, one of the most interesting Italian spaces dedicated to...
Arianna Richetti 3 March 2022
The Collision of Old and New in American Paintings: 5 Vignettes of Artists
Contemporary American painters experiment with older and more traditional painting techniques and take those methods in new directions, showcasing an...
Guest Profile 28 February 2022
Watch Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painting – Video
In this unique film created a few years before his death, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is painting. And also smoking! During this tough period of his life,...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 February 2022
