The Secret Rooms of Pompeii That Tourists Weren’t Supposed to See
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum is a shocking phenomenon often omitted from textbooks about ancient history. These famous Roman cities...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 May 2026
Erotica
The Greatest Male Nudes in Art History
Nudity started being an important subject in art in ancient Greece. The male body was celebrated at sports competitions or religious festivals, it...
Anuradha Sroha 14 May 2026
The Unashamed Gaze: The Story of Goya’s Naked (and Clothed) Maja
Which one do you prefer? The Naked Maja or The Clothed Maja? – this question might have been asked by the painter Francisco Goya when he completed...
Magda Michalska 14 May 2026
Is Jeff Koons’ Art Pornography?
Jeff Koons has been controversial from the very beginning of his career, which began around 1979. Having experimented with inflatable bunnies,...
Magda Michalska 14 May 2026
The Very Surprising Drawings of Francesco Hayez
The Venetian painter Francesco Hayez is considered a genius of historical Romanticism. In addition to the quality and refinement of his artworks, he...
Rute Ferreira 14 May 2026
Let’s Talk about Courbet’s Origin of the World
In the 19th century, the display of the nude body underwent a revolution—and a massive critique. Gustave Courbet, one of the main scandalous...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 May 2026
The Scandalous Nudes of Gustave Courbet
In the 19th century, French painter and rebel Gustave Courbet generated outrage with his scandalous nudes. What exactly was so scandalous about his...
Kelly Hill 11 May 2026
Masterpiece Story: A Summer Day by Gerda Wegener
This Pride Month, we invite you to explore a compelling work by Gerda Wegener, an artist whose dazzling contributions to the early 20th-century art...
Alessia Caldana 26 April 2026
Anita Berber: Femme Fatale of the Weimar Republic
Born on 10 June 1899 in Dresden Germany, Anita Berber shocked and entertained the cabaret and bourgeois crowds of the Weimar Republic right up to her...
Kelly Hill 20 April 2026
Sylvia Sleigh—A Woman Who Slayed Male Nudes
Sylvia Sleigh was beautiful inside out—brave and independent, she pursued her figurative style which was regarded as outmoded in the years of Pop...
Magda Michalska 12 March 2026
Nakedness or Nudity? To Be a Woman Is to Perform
Throughout the centuries, women’s bodies have consistently been staged for display rather than simply allowed to exist. John Berger’s...
Guest Author 12 March 2026
The Origin of the World and the Female Gaze
It was Shakespeare who coined the phrase, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. The premise rests on the notion that the...
Guest Author 12 March 2026
