Bizarre

Theater & Cinema

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

WTF Art History

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

Long Read

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

Museum Stories

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

Architecture

Masterpiece Story: House with Chimaeras in Kyiv

The House with Chimaeras is a striking Art Nouveau building in Kyiv, Ukraine. Covered in spectacular animal sculptures such as elephants,...

Nataliia Pecherska 7 June 2026

Art History 101

Hags and Slags? A History of Witchcraft in Art

Hold on to your broomstick as we fly through time to check out the delicious and diabolical witch in art history.

Candy Bedworth 27 May 2026

Witchcraft, Carolee Schneeman, Eye Body No 24, 1963 Herstory

World Day Against Witch Hunts: A Burning Issue

On World Day Against Witch-Hunts, let's take a look at depictions of the witch in modern art, and pause to consider the women who still wait for justice after being falsely accused of witchcraft.

Candy Bedworth 27 May 2026

Renaissance

Doctors Diagnosed Mona Lisa—Was Her Face Paralyzed?

Everyone has heard about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece at the Louvre in Paris. But you have probably never heard about… her...

Camilla de Laurentis 25 May 2026

"3. Marian Henel, Big Butts (excerpt), 1981, 240x480 cm, photo by A. Podstawka.jpg" Bizarre

Marian Henel—Tapestries and Madness

Marian Henel’s tapestries are huge. The largest one measures over 6 m in length and 3 m in width (19 ft. 8 in. by 9 ft. 10 in.). Created in the...

Zuzanna Stańska 22 May 2026

Bizarre

The Mystery of Dürer’s Magic Square

Many very strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic...

Zuzanna Stańska 21 May 2026

Flower Symbolism in Art. Adriaen van Utrecht, Still Life with Bouquet and Skull, c. 1642. Private collection. Via Wikimedia Commons. Painting

The Flora of Folklore: Hidden Flower Symbolism in Art’s Greatest Paintings

Every Old Master canvas speaks in two registers at once: one for the eye, one for those who know how to read the flowers. Artists used flower...

Errika Gerakiti 18 May 2026

Review

A Dog with the Face of Elon Musk Kneeled in Front of Me, and It Wasn’t a Dream—Beeple in Berlin

Last week, I entered the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin for a press meeting with Beeple. I was too early and looked for the restroom, and suddenly...

Kate Wojtczak 18 May 2026