The Intriguing Tale of Shocking Sheela Na Gig and Its Art References
Everyone remembers their first sighting of a Sheela Na Gig. Wandering around an old church, breathing in the architecture, the history, the silence.
Candy Bedworth 3 July 2023
Everyone remembers their first sighting of a Sheela Na Gig. Wandering around an old church, breathing in the architecture, the history, the silence.
Candy Bedworth 3 July 2023
Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most influential and recognizable painter of the 20th century, is well known for his tumultuous (or even abusive)...
Pola Otterstein 1 July 2023
Few women in 18th-century Spain captured the imagination of contemporaries as thoroughly as Doña María de Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Álvarez...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 July 2023
Anyone who knows of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood will remember their style by the representation of a very particular type of woman – the ones...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 1 July 2023
A club The Gilded Grape, situated in the no man’s land of Eighth Avenue and West 45th Street in New York City, was a hub of drag queens and Black...
Magda Michalska 28 June 2023
This book stood on one of my shelves for far too long. The compelling ugliness of its cover attracted me each time I longingly glanced at it. Now...
Giordana Goretti 26 June 2023
What does “castrato” mean? Castrati were male singers who had been castrated before puberty to retain the so-called voce bianca, that is...
Magda Michalska 26 June 2023
Not sure what you should read next? Here is a list of the most important art-related books you should read. Written in the previous century, they...
Roma Piotrowska 26 June 2023
Just like traditionally in painting, art history has acknowledged mainly male sculptors. However, that doesn’t mean that women haven’t made...
Errika Gerakiti 26 June 2023
American sculptor Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) was highly successful in her days, but today her story rarely resurfaces on the pages of art...
Magda Michalska 23 June 2023
The practice of decorating pieces of glass with the aim of adorning a room seems to originate in the ancient Roman Empire. Later stained glass...
Camilla de Laurentis 23 June 2023
Claude Cahun famously said “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.” Photographer,...
Candy Bedworth 22 June 2023