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Artist Stories

10 Things You May Not Know About Édouard Manet

Who has not heard of Édouard Manet? The same Manet whose canvas, Le Déjeuner sur L’herbe (or The Luncheon on the Grass), ushered in a new age for...

Ledys Chemin 9 February 2026

WTF Art History

The Most Outrageous Stories Behind Damaged Artworks

A few years ago, two Chinese women drove their Mercedes SUV into the Forbidden City in Beijing. That event created quite a controversy. The least you...

Michel Rutten 9 February 2026

Review

Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész

André Kertész is the patron saint of amateur photography. A man as full of passion for capturing life between glass and film as he is with...

Coleman Richards 9 February 2026

The Adoration of Cosmic Vishnu, ca. 1710 - 1725, Mankot, India, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Asian Art

Avatars of Vishnu: 10 Incarnations of the Eastern God

Vishnu has been worshipped for over 2000 years as the supreme protector of the Hindu triumvirate, along with Shiva and Brahmin. His role in the...

Maya M. Tola 9 February 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: How Well Do You Know J. M. W. Turner?

Sandra Juszczyk 7 February 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: Will You Recognize Famous Artists in Their Self-Portraits?

Nicole Ganbold 7 February 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: The Paul Gauguin Adventure

Joanna Kaszubowska 7 February 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: Do You Know These 10 Abstract Expressionist Paintings?

Tom Anderson 7 February 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: Who Painted This? Impressionist Edition

Szymon Jocek, Karla Pumpido 7 February 2026

Fashion

Crowning Glory—The World’s 12 Most Beautiful Tiaras

We all have family treasures. Those mementos that matter to us so much because of their sentimental value and the memories associated with them. Now,...

Joanna Kaszubowska 6 February 2026

Review

Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time at the Norton Museum of Art

Thomas Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, have amassed the world’s largest private collection of 17th-century Dutch paintings. The...

Tom Anderson 5 February 2026

History

The Schloss Collection: A Story of War, Looting, and Restitution

Among the many artistic depredations that devastated France under Nazi rule, the looting of the Schloss collection came to be seen as a defining...

Javier Abel Miguel 4 February 2026