Whitechapel’s Radical Figures and the Famous Paintings that Inspired Them
In Whitechapel Gallery’s Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, ten of today’s key figurative painters use historical art...
Yasmin Ozkan 18 March 2020
WTF Art History
Art Guide to Quarantine by DailyArt
So, you’re bored in quarantine, or maybe they closed your favorite museum. The COVID-19 outbreak has us all wondering what to do. If just like us you turn to art in anxious times, you might use this guideline to fill your time with a bit of beauty.
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 17 March 2020
Be A Lady, They Said: the Poem in Paintings
Possibly the most viral video of the week is the poem by Camille Rainville Be a Lady, They Said recited brilliantly by Cinthia Nixon (Sex and the...
Magda Michalska 6 March 2020
Charles Fazzino – Superbowl’s Officially Licensed Artist
America’s biggest sporting event has its own official artist! Charles Fazzino is a gifted artist from New York, best known for his incredibly...
Maya M. Tola 2 February 2020
How Artworks Can Suffer. The Forbidden City Case and More
Recently, on Monday, January 20th, two Chinese women drove their Mercedes SUV into the Forbidden City in Beijing. That event created quite a...
Michel Rutten 30 January 2020
Masterpiece Story: The Monkey Painter by Jean-Baptiste Chardin
It’s tacky! It’s funny! It’s weird! Yes, Jean-Baptiste Chardin’s The Monkey Painter is definitely not what you would consider in good taste.
James W Singer 26 January 2020
Book Review: Sofonisba, Portraits of the Soul
Sofonisba, Portraits of the soul is a book by Chiara Montani about the life and work of the Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola. Sofonisba was an...
Errika Gerakiti 15 January 2020
Ugly Cities Transformed
Seeing a place, object or person through the eyes of an artist can change our perception of the subject of the artwork. So, if art is such a powerful...
Guest Profile 13 December 2019
Titian’s Venus and Adonis (Metamorphoses III)
In a series of articles we are going to meet each of the seven Poesies, which Titian delivered Phillip II of Spain in the 1550s and early 1560s.
Isla Phillips-Ewen 11 December 2019
The Sumptuous Wallace Collection, Fragonard and The Swing
The Wallace Collection displays a collection, which came together in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, collected by the first four Marquesses...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 9 December 2019
Titian’s Danae (Metamorphoses II)
In a series of articles we are going to meet each of the seven Poesies, which Titian delivered Phillip II of Spain in the 1550s and early 1560s.
Isla Phillips-Ewen 2 December 2019
Art in The Crown: Spies, Secrets and The Royal Art Collection
The Crown is not amused… There’s a scandal brewing behind the doors of Buckingham Palace. Let’s investigate art in The Crown,...
Tony Heathfield 25 November 2019
