Danse Macabre: Dancing with Skeletons
Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) – a weird dance between people and skeletons. You might think that it is a scene from a horror movie. But...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 July 2020
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LEGO Architecture: Build Your Very Own Modernist House
Lego gives us the opportunity to create our own world. We’ve all played as kids creating the most amazing places from our imagination or even...
Celia Leiva Otto 7 July 2020
Painting of the Week: Thomas Lawrence, Julia, Lady Peel
When I saw the portrait of Julia, Lady Peel by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the Frick Collection, I was intrigued by the artwork. There is a...
Marina Kochetkova 5 July 2020
The Lady with the Dog
The Lady with the Dog is a title that I borrowed from Chekhov’s short story. It is a story of an affair, however, in art the dog quite often has...
Joanna Kaszubowska 4 July 2020
Mona Lisa at the Battlefield: The History of Saving Art During World War II
During walks through the halls of museums, few people think about how these art masterpieces were not always in their place. In turbulent war years,...
Elizaveta Ermakova 3 July 2020
Chiharu Shiota’s Installation Art: Drawing in the Air
Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota creates monumental artworks that immerse the visitor in a tangled web of their own imagination. Delicate yarn installations, filling a gallery space, move you from creation to death, and almost impossibly, beyond.
Candy Bedworth 2 July 2020
See a Man About a Dog: Dogs in Paintings
The title sentence is a charming English euphemism, usually used to apologize for one’s imminent departure or absence—generally to conceal...
Joanna Kaszubowska 1 July 2020
Sotheby’s 1988 Auction. A Turning Point for Unofficial Moscow Artists
Perestroika and reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev affected all spheres of life in Russia. As a result, unofficial artists in Moscow felt the full...
Elizaveta Ermakova 27 June 2020
The British Landscape in Art
The British Landscape: where do we start? From Turner to Hogan the British landscape presents a constant challenge to artists to capture its elusive...
Sarah Mills 25 June 2020
Everything You Need to Know About François Boucher
François Boucher (1703-1770) was a French artist well known for his Rococo style artworks. His artworks are synonymous with the blossom of color...
Kateryna Martynova 23 June 2020
A Queer World in Konstantin Somov’s Artworks
Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) was a Russian painter, co-founder of the artistic movement Mir Iskusstva and well known for his watercolors...
Kateryna Martynova 22 June 2020
Seven Books About Art for Holiday Chill
Holiday time but not sure if you can afford to travel? Or do you just need something to help forget about social distancing while relaxing somewhere...
Camilla de Laurentis 22 June 2020
