5 Famous Artists Who Were Migrants and Other Stories
As long as there have been artists, there have been migrant artists. Like anyone else, they’ve left their homeland and traveled abroad for many...
Catriona Miller 20 July 2026
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The Evacuation That Saved Spain’s Artistic Heritage
In November 1936, the Prado Museum became a temporary refuge while Madrid was under bombardment. Its galleries were emptied, its masterpieces were...
Javier Abel Miguel 13 July 2026
8 Artistic Inspirations That Shaped Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga was “the master of us all,” as Christian Dior said, and “the only couturier in the truest sense of the word,”...
Errika Gerakiti 9 July 2026
10 Most Scary Paintings
Paintings can represent both real and unreal themes and scary paintings are a mixture of both. Among all the emotions that make up the human psyche,...
Gabriela Hurtado 2 July 2026
Goya’s Visions of Fear: Witches and Saturn
Three figures hover in the air, their bodies angled downward as they descend upon a limp man below. His arms stretch outward, his body slack, as if...
Frank Schildiner 28 May 2026
Double, Double Toil and Trouble: Witches in Art and Modern Media
One of my favorite parts of the Halloween season is the scary and cult classic movies shown on repeat all month long. The fact is, we can actually...
Rachel Witte 27 May 2026
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
Top 5 Most Famous Print Series in Art
Printmaking, the art of printing artworks on paper, developed in the 15th century when paper became widely available in Europe. Gutenberg’s...
Anastasia Manioudaki 18 May 2026
The Unashamed Gaze: The Story of Goya’s Naked (and Clothed) Maja
Which one do you prefer? The Naked Maja or The Clothed Maja? – this question might have been asked by the painter Francisco Goya when he completed...
Magda Michalska 14 May 2026
13 Hidden Gems at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Our first guide, presenting 15 masterpieces of European Painting, barely scratched the surface of the vast collection held at the Metropolitan Museum...
MJ Rivera 20 April 2026
Goya, James Bond, and a Retired Bus Driver—How They Stole The Duke of Wellington
When British agent James Bond, played at the time by a young Sean Connery, enters Dr. No’s secret base, he stops in front of a painting resting...
Javier Abel Miguel 16 April 2026
Did Goya Make a Career?
Goya’s paintings are often disturbing and very very dark. It’s because his activity coincided with the last period of the Enlightenment, the...
Magda Michalska 16 April 2026
