Masterpiece Story: Season’s Greetings by Banksy
What if a children’s game turned into a frightening nightmare? And what would you think if the cause was… you? In Port Talbot, UK, Banksy...
Camilla de Laurentis 20 May 2022
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Siemon Scamell-Katz: An Ode to the Sublime
Welcomed in a Parisian pop-up gallery on rue Saint-Gilles, the exhibition The End of Otherness presented, for the first time in France, some...
Montaine Dumont 19 May 2022
Watch Kandinsky Drawing on a Rare Footage from 1926
In 1926, filmmaker Hans Cürlis, a pioneer of art documentaries, took this rare footage of the Russian abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky on video.
Zuzanna Stańska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 16 May 2022
Our Dad Is an Artist: Thomas Gainsborough’s Daughters
British portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was born on this day in 1727. Happy Birthday! To celebrate, let’s talk about his...
Alexandra Kiely 14 May 2022
Masterpiece Story: Grace Dalrymple Elliott by Thomas Gainsborough
The Frick Collection has an amazing ensemble of European masters. For example, works by Vermeer, Fragonard, and Goya grace its walls. Every room has...
James W Singer 14 May 2022
The Most Scandalous Artworks by Marcel Duchamp
In addition to Marcel Duchamp’s famous readymades, during his life he created less known works that were provocative and caused a scandal among the...
Caroline Galambosova 13 May 2022
Belgium–Argentina. Transatlantic Modernisms at Mu.ZEE in Ostend
Belgium and Argentina have more in common than you might suspect. That’s what the current Mu.Zee exhibition explores until June 16th, 2022. During...
Tommy Thiange 9 May 2022
Be Inspired! At Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery is hosting a fascinating new exhibition examining the ways in which visual artists have taken inspiration from the literary...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 2 May 2022
Mulyana: Fragile Ecologies and Crocheted Ecosystems
In the last few months, SAPAR Contemporary in New York displayed the exhibition Mulyana: Fragile Ecologies. It featured some of the most interesting...
Arianna Richetti 2 May 2022
Masterpiece Story: The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes) by Adolph Menzel
The 19th century, the age of steel and steam, witnessed not only the development of the industry but also the new themes in painting. Now, simple...
Kate Wojtczak 1 May 2022
Tormented Lovers, Sumptuous Players – Guitarists in Art
Musical instruments have always had a particular significance in paintings. Throughout the history of depicting music-making in art, the iconography...
Alina Manevskaya 30 April 2022
How Would Superheroes Have Looked Like in the 17th Century?
The 17th century was a beautiful time full of people wearing ruffs. Huge, remarkable ruffs. Those ruffs stayed in my memory, like in Peter Paul...
Zuzanna Stańska 28 April 2022
