Dan Flavin: Art is Thought and Fluorescent Lights
Dan Flavin (1993-1996) was an American artist and pioneer of Minimalism. He is famous for making sculptural objects and installations from...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 17 December 2019
Museum Stories
National Portrait Gallery in London
You have approximately six months until the National Portrait Gallery shuts down for a three year renovation (29 June 2020 – Spring 2023)! If...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 14 December 2019
Now at the Frick – Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum
I love small exhibitions, because they allow me to savor each artwork and absorb all sorts of little details I wouldn’t otherwise. Manet: Three...
Alexandra Kiely 3 December 2019
Fighting for Visibility in Berlin: In Conversation with the Curator
I have managed to ask a couple of questions of Dr. Yvette Deseyve, the curator of the exhibition Fighting for Visibility. Women Artists in the...
Magda Michalska 22 November 2019
Sacred and Beauty in Russian Art at Gallerie d’Italia in Vicenza
The spirituality of the ancient iconographic models and the symbology of Russian art reach the city of Palladio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,...
Maria Frazzoni 21 November 2019
Vincent van Gogh Revisited: Art of Hope Gangloff
The American artist Hope Gangloff (born in 1974) made several landscape paintings this year, some of which are reminiscent of Vincent van...
Michel Rutten 20 November 2019
#MeToo Arrived in Museums: Fighting for Visibility in Berlin
Since the 1970s and the emergence of feminist art, we have been witnessing the development of feminist art scholarship. Authors like Linda Nochlin or...
Magda Michalska 18 November 2019
W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine at the Annenberg Space for Photography
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost begins. His poem Mending Walls is emblazoned next to the entrance, setting the...
Guest Profile 13 November 2019
Guggenheim: The Thannhauser Collection from van Gogh to Picasso at Palazzo Reale
From October 17th to March 1st 2020 Milan will be the meeting point for some of the most important artworks of the Impressionist movement. Palazzo...
Maria Frazzoni 8 November 2019
Rembrandt’s Light—Dulwich Picture Gallery
Rembrandt’s Light exhibition at The Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death. The focus of this...
Joanna Kaszubowska 5 November 2019
Filmmaking is like Painting – Andrzej Wajda as a Painter
Ladies and Gentlemen, and now I will speak in Polish… – the famous words Polish director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) said while receiving...
Judyta Dąbrowska 17 October 2019
The Artistic Inspiration of Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga was the “Master of us all,” as Christian Dior said, and a “couturier in the truest sense of the word,”...
Errika Gerakiti 15 October 2019
