Family in Art: Missing Our Loved Ones
Today, we have photographs and video cameras to help us capture special moments or gatherings with family and friends. We are able to capture the...
Rachel Witte 25 May 2020
WTF Art History
Empty Paintings of Quarantine
We’ve all heard of the personalities who made history during quarantine: William Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine, Isaac Newton...
Guest Profile 20 May 2020
Richard Saltoun Gallery: Bodily Objects – Review
Bodily Objects, curated by Philomena Epps, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. 1.05.2020 – 30.06.2020, access online viewing room here. The...
Guest Profile 20 May 2020
Rainbows for the NHS and Damien Hirst
Since lockdown came into effect in the UK, people have been putting rainbows on display to show love for key-workers. An inherent sign of hope, these...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 11 May 2020
Female Nude Codes in Painting From Giorgione’s Venus to Odalisques and Olympias
Museums are filled with paintings of nude women. It is a very codified practice that has changed over the ages. Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus...
Maia Heguiaphal 5 May 2020
Tableaux Vivants: A Long History of Recreating Art
A fanciful costume, a theatrical pose, the right light… and for a few seconds the viewer is immersed in a “living picture.” You have probably...
Guest Profile 1 May 2020
Agostino Arrivabene – A Modern Alchemist
Agostino Arrivabene (born in 1967) is a visionary yet secluded Italian contemporary artist who continues to produce outstanding surrealist works from...
Caroline Galambosova 28 April 2020
Gradiva: What Did Freud and the Surrealists See in Her?
A woman who walks. That’s what Gradiva (the name of an anonymous woman from an antique bas-relief) means, as given by a fictional character...
Magda Michalska 27 April 2020
Quarantine Times: These Artists Performed at Their Best Alone
Most of us don’t escape the obligation of some kind of quarantine in these corona-driven times. Social distancing and isolation are keywords in...
Michel Rutten 25 April 2020
Recommended Quarantine Routine Inspired by Art
Are you looking for activities to pass your time as you patiently (or not so patiently) wait for the Coronavirus pandemic to subside? Here are some...
Maya M. Tola 24 April 2020
The Art of Domesticity: Art Inspired by the Home
In times where we must spend more time at home than usual, we journey through art inspired by domestic life over the centuries. Édouard Vuillard,...
Yasmin Ozkan 23 April 2020
Art Memes in the Time of Quarantine
Memes seem to be the way that our generation sees the world. We send, make, and, most of all, laugh at them. It may not come as a surprise then that...
Rachel Witte 22 April 2020
