Hell Hath No Fury. The Merry Murderess of Early Modern Art
Hell hath no fury like a murderess scorned and, boy, you better believe it! If you were to take a moment and google ‘murder in art’ your...
Tony Heathfield 30 April 2019
WTF Art History
6 Rooms from Famous Paintings Brought to Real Life
Paintings of historical interiors are fascinating hybrid images – midway between the work of a great artist’s imagination and a document of...
Kate Wojtczak 29 April 2019
Apollo and Daphne #MeToo
In Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses, boastful, arrogant God Apollo is mad with love for the virginal river nymph Daphne after being shot with a golden...
Candy Bedworth 24 April 2019
Egg Art 2019 Easter Edition
Two years ago I wrote an Easter article about eggs and what to do with all the remaining ones after the holidays. This year I decided to take up this...
Magda Michalska 20 April 2019
Made for Reflection: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden
Let’s take a look at one of the most interesting works in Yayoi Kusama’s career. Was it commercial or high art? A performance or an...
Noa Weisberg 17 April 2019
Kiki Smith’s Bodies as Instruments of Perception and Travel
It seems Kiki Smith didn’t have much choice when deciding on who to become in the future because art just flows in her veins: her father Tony...
Magda Michalska 6 April 2019
Sylvia Sleigh. A Slay Girl Who Rocked Male Portraiture
I called Sylvia Sleigh a slay girl because she was beautiful inside out. Brave and independent, she pursued her own figurative style which by many...
Magda Michalska 2 April 2019
Art of the Brick – Nathan Sawaya’s Lego Works
Lego springs to mind as one of the key toys of many people’s childhoods. Whether building houses, spacecrafts or just stepping on that elusive...
Nadine Waldmann 27 March 2019
Huguette Caland’s Linear Eroticism
Some see her art as sexualized. I’d rather see Huguette Caland’s linear eroticism, which shifts between abstraction and figuration, as an...
Magda Michalska 26 March 2019
Taking the Perfect Selfie: Tips from History’s Greatest Portrait Artists
To pout or not to pout… that is the question. From smoulders to smiles, duck faces to dog ears, in the age of front-facing phone cameras there...
Tony Heathfield 22 February 2019
Voyage Cinétique II – Kinetic Art on the Runway
Transforming a woman’s body into a piece of art, the Venezuelan Oscar Carvallo introduced 35 outfits with prints, textures, cuts and details...
Gabriela Hurtado 18 February 2019
Searching for Love in Art
LOVE ALERT! The following array of paintings is a heart-warming collection of artworks worth sharing with your beloved. They are so much more...
Magda Michalska 14 February 2019
