Biggest Art Heists in History
Movies on thefts and art heists are making huge box office hits for their great action and wit. However, even if real art heists have been sometimes...
Irina Diana Calu 18 August 2025
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Does London Value Animals More than Women? 10 Statues of Amazing Women in the City
Where are the women in the UK’s public art installations? Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of...
Candy Bedworth 11 August 2025
Painter’s Biggest Fear: The Blindness of Claude Monet
The eyes of an artist put to the service of art can reveal to us an unspeakable world that is very present around us. But what does this world, this...
Christopher Michaut 11 August 2025
Masterpiece Story: Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church
Heart of the Andes is one truly impressive landscape painting. Frederic Edwin Church’s crowning achievement depicts the scenery he saw during his...
Alexandra Kiely 11 August 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi by Katharine Augusta Carl
Art and politics have been closely intertwined throughout global history. This article studies the case of The Empress Dowager Cixi of China by...
Iolanda Munck 10 August 2025
Paw Prints: The Diversity of Cats in Japanese Art
From cute and exotic pets to monstrous, otherworldly creatures, cats in Japanese art appear in various forms and contexts. Let’s delve into the...
Iolanda Munck 8 August 2025
Cook Like an Artist! Kitchen Inspiration from Art History
For hundreds of years, kitchens in art were the undesirable work place of unsavory maids, tucked away below the luxurious living spaces of the upper...
Abreeza Thomas 5 August 2025
From Specimen to Contemporary Taxidermy
There are many media through which artists can express their own vision, approach their aesthetic feeling, and capture the reality that vanishes in...
Caroline Galambosova 4 August 2025
Vincent van Gogh in 10 Paintings: A Journey Through His Art
Vincent van Gogh remains one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art. His life, marked by intense emotions, personal struggles,...
Jimena Aullet 4 August 2025
Is This Van Gogh’s One True Love? Sketches of Sien
Vincent van Gogh produced dozens of sketches of his live-in lover Clasina Maria Hoornick, known as Sien. Let's take a look!
Candy Bedworth 31 July 2025
Between Word and Image: The Creative Mind of David Jones
David Jones (1895–1974) was an artist, poet, writer and craftsman; a name synonymous with the Modernist era but one that still remains lesser known...
Guest Author 28 July 2025
Nose Art—The Most Unique Art by Pilots During WWII
Ever since men first went to war in airplanes, they have felt the need to decorate their machines with unofficial, often banned and personal...
Caroline Galambosova 28 July 2025
