How to Become an Old Master? Turn on the Youtube First!
I can’t draw, I can’t paint, I can’t sculpt or do pottery. But I can watch videos on Rijksmuseum Youtube channel called...
Magda Michalska 13 June 2019
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It’s Not Always What It Seems: The Fabulous Inventions of Panamarenko
Panamarenko steals from science and uses it in his art. He has designed planes and submarines that at first sight are perfectly capable of...
Michel Rutten 12 June 2019
Painting of the Week: Masaccio, The Tribute Money
There are many artists and paintings which I return to over and over again. Artists like Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Vermeer, van Eyck, Cassatt,...
Rachel Witte 9 June 2019
The Monumental Paintings of Lucian Freud
The paintings in the Lucian Freud: Monumental exhibition in Acquavella Gallery on the Upper East Side in New York City are monumental in many ways,...
Howard Schwartz 5 June 2019
The Genius Experience: Leonardo and Warhol at the Crypt of San Sepolcro
Two protagonists of their respective eras, the Renaissance genius and the father of pop art, collide together in Milan, despite four centuries of...
Maria Frazzoni 4 June 2019
How British was Van Gogh?
The exhibition Van Gogh and Britain at the Tate Britain brings together over 50 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain...
Joanna Kaszubowska 1 June 2019
Discover South American Artists in MnBA, Rio de Janeiro
As the third piece in our series, I present my favorite paintings from the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MnBA) of Rio de Janeiro. There are works by...
Anna Deáki 30 May 2019
Artistic Life in the Time of the Bonapartes. Ingres at Palazzo Reale
An artist impossible to classify, a revolutionary one, both realistic and mannerist, perceived as the heir of Raphael and a precursor of Picasso.
Maria Frazzoni 29 May 2019
All Faces of František Kupka
First time I came across František Kupka’s work was in the Centre Pompidou and I thought: “Wow, he was such an interesting guy and I...
Magda Michalska 27 May 2019
Geek Art
The geek-art community has an affluent and acquisitive sub culture that has a seemingly insatiable thirst for paintings, models and sculptures. Pop...
Candy Bedworth 25 May 2019
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst in British Museum
“We do not want pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room walls. We want… an art that arrests and engages. An art of one’s innermost...
Joanna Kaszubowska 23 May 2019
A House of Their Own: The Red Rose Girls
In an old house in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, four women made their home and their art together. Three decades before...
Guest Profile 18 May 2019
