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Halloween costume. Left: Van Gogh and His Starry Night children costume. Left center: Ariel Adkins, Woman with a hat costume, 2017. Right center: Idigcrystals, Can’t Help Myself costume, 2022. Right: Ecce Homo costume. WTF Art History

Best Artsy Halloween Costumes

It is the time of the year to get spooky. Do you have your Halloween costume ready? The following examples used their creativity to recreate famous...

Jimena Escoto 16 October 2025

Dance

Dancing Through Art! The Best Depictions of Dance in Art History

Dance has appeared in art since humans began creating artworks, reflecting it’s importance in people’s lives. Artists have captured the...

Jimena Escoto 16 October 2025

Karlo Zvirynskyi, Crimea, late 1950s, oil on cardboard, collection of Oleksii Kharko. Ukraine Special

Karlo Zvirynskyi: A Spiritual Teacher of Ukrainian Underground Art

Karlo Zvirynskyi (1923–1997) was the true epitome of an underground artist. Having rejected the Soviet Union’s official socialist realist style,...

Guest Author 16 October 2025

Painting

Life Imitates Art—M. K. Čiurlionis’ Paintings and Hubble Telescope Photos

The stars, the moon, the sun—all celestial bodies have inspired art for centuries. However, as we look at Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’...

Guest Author 16 October 2025

Artist Stories

What Inspired Kandinsky? Nature, Spirituality and Other Artists

Wassily Kandinsky – a lawyer turned painter, a painter turned lecturer, a green-fingered man for whom a house with a garden was a curse (as he...

Magda Michalska 16 October 2025

Painting

The First Abstract Expressionists: Carl Jung and Hilma af Klint

Before the art world embraced her as a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, Hilma af Klint hid her revolutionary works behind layers of secrecy, driven...

Guest Author 16 October 2025

Review

The Other Side: Women, Art And Spirituality

The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World, written by Jennifer Higgie, is a deep-dive into the world of extraordinary artists...

Candy Bedworth 16 October 2025

Women Artists

Mary Cassatt: Motherhood in 5 Paintings

Mary Cassatt was the only American painter who exhibited with the Impressionists. Although she never married or had children of her own, she is best...

Ruxi Rusu 15 October 2025

Painting

Cute Babies in Art: From Rubens to Cassatt and Van Gogh

Who doesn’t like a cute baby? Lucky for us, history is full of cute babies in art. And while we could dedicate one whole article to babies in Mary...

Rachel Witte 15 October 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became friends with Edgar Degas...

Zuzanna Stańska 15 October 2025

Herstory

Women in Science: A Gallery of 10 Trailblazing Minds

You have probably heard about the great Marie Curie, but how many women scientists could you list to your friends beyond her? Let’s discover 10...

Lisa Scalone 14 October 2025

Contemporary Art

7 Mind-Blowing Projects Where Art Meets Technology

Fine art and science have been closely intertwined since antiquity, which is proven by all-around geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci, whose work blurred...

Guest Author 14 October 2025