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Masterpiece Stories

Painting of the Week: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

A ploughman is plowing the lands, a shepherd is watching over his sheep, an angler is fishing. The ships are sailing to unknown lands, a partridge is...

Zuzanna Stańska 1 March 2020

Architecture

These Gifs Bring Eight Buildings from Paintings Into the Real World

If you’ve ever tried to imagine what it would be like to visit buildings from paintings you know and love, these fun gifs can help you out!...

Alexandra Kiely 26 February 2020

Museum Stories

Around the world with the National Portrait Gallery – P.5 Europe

The National Portrait Gallery in London is due to close its doors from 29 June 2020. The Inspiring People gallery redevelopment works will take three...

Joanna Kaszubowska 24 February 2020

Museum Stories

Introducing the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art is a major American art museum, renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection. It includes more than 61,000...

Marina Kochetkova 22 February 2020

Symbolism

Poetry without Motion: Endymion by George Frederick Watts

Is there anything more beautiful than Endymion by the English ‘Symbolist’ artist George Frederick Watts? Through the subtle contrasts of...

Craig Wakerley 21 February 2020

Art Travels

Art Travels: Angkor Thom, Cambodia

Angkor Thom or the ‘great city’ was the last Khmer empire’s capital from the 12th century until its abandonment in the 16th...

Maya M. Tola 19 February 2020

Museum Stories

Around the World with the National Portrait Gallery – P.4 Americas

The National Portrait Gallery in London is due to close its doors starting 29 June 2020. The Inspiring People gallery redevelopment works will take...

Joanna Kaszubowska 18 February 2020

Museum Stories

Blue Like Me: The Art of Siona Benjamin

From February 25th to May 31st, 2020 the Gotthelf Art Gallery at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture will exhibit the unique works of the Indian...

Maya M. Tola 17 February 2020

Museum Stories

500 years of Raphael. Exhibitions in 2020

He was sometimes known as Il divino – the divine one – for his expert mastery of space and proportion. And this year, in the 500th anniversary of...

Candy Bedworth 11 February 2020

Museum Stories

Walking the Line: Sofia Mitsola’s Women

For Condo London 2020, Pilar Corrias shares its space with Matthew Brown Gallery, LA. Whilst works by Sedrick Chisom largely occupy the...

Guest Profile 7 February 2020

Museum Stories

Counting Memories, Chiharu Shiota Installation in Katowice

Counting Memories (Sept 7, 2019 – Oct 4, 2020) is a current, site-specific, large scale installation by Chiharu Shiota at the Muzeum Śląskie...

Nadine Waldmann 6 February 2020

Video

BEAUTY. A Short Film by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro

Rino Stefano Tagliafierro is a director, art director and video artist. From museums to the digital world, he explores the spectrum of our...

Christopher Michaut 3 February 2020