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Guest Author 18 October 2025
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Rebel, Rebel: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
If I asked for your top 10 political artists, does Claude Cahun spring to mind? Marcel Moore? No, I guessed as much. But these two art activists had...
Candy Bedworth 17 October 2025
Andrea Fraser’s Museum Highlights: Artist as Performer
American-born Andrea Fraser is a leading performance artist of her generation (born 1965), best known for her work on institutional critique. She...
Guest Author 17 October 2025
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
