The Inked Ladies—Tattooed Women of the Victorian Era
Would it surprise you to learn that 59% of American women have at least one tattoo? That’s compared to 41% of American men. Perhaps unsurprising is...
Lauren Kraut 17 July 2026
Bizarre
Tattoos—Ancient Ink to Modern Celebrity
Love them or loathe them, tattoos are a global phenomenon. Inserting pigment under the skin for decorative or ritualistic purposes has been around...
Candy Bedworth 17 July 2026
Eerie Paintings of Franz Sedlacek
Franz Sedlacek is one of the most important Austrian painters of the interwar period. His paintings portray the darkness, oppressiveness, and...
Errika Gerakiti 10 July 2026
Did Pieter Bruegel Play Dice? The Story of Seemingly Insignificant Detail
Pieter Bruegel The Elder was a prominent Flemish painter of the 16th century, famed for his vivid, often humorous depictions of peasant life and...
Guest Author 2 July 2026
When Rome Put a Dead Pope on Trial—The Cadaver Synod
In a career that spanned over two decades, Jean-Paul Laurens painted some of French art’s most plaintive historical moments: two young princes...
Guest Author 2 July 2026
The Dark Arts of Aleksandra Waliszewska
Rather unsettling, quite macabre, and more than slightly erotic, the paintings and illustrations by Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska are...
Marta Wiktoria Bryll 2 July 2026
10 Most Scary Paintings
Paintings can represent both real and unreal themes and scary paintings are a mixture of both. Among all the emotions that make up the human psyche,...
Gabriela Hurtado 2 July 2026
The Fantasy World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Portraits
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was the king of Mannerism. If you see a portrait made of plants, vegetables, books, animals and generally speaking, stuff—you...
Zuzanna Stańska 2 July 2026
From Surrealism to the Money Heist Mask: The Afterlife of Salvador Dalí’s Image
Millions of viewers around the world recognize the red jumpsuits and masks of the famous Netflix series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel). The image has...
Tunacan Tuna 25 June 2026
Attention, Dangerous Art! How Art Can Hurt You
Every once in a while, an accident involving an artwork happens. Usually, it is the artwork that ends up damaged, but sometimes it is the audience...
Joanna Kaszubowska 25 June 2026
From Specimen to Contemporary Taxidermy
There are many media through which artists can express their own vision, approach their aesthetic feeling, and capture the reality that vanishes in...
Caroline Galambosova 15 June 2026
After 30 Years We Still Don’t Know Where the $500 Million Artworks Are Hidden
Two men, police uniforms and some duct tape; this is how Rick Abath and Randy Hestand, security men at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston,...
Ruxi Rusu 15 June 2026
