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Beyond Masterpieces: How Kandinsky and Strzemiński Shaped Two Revolutionary Museums

In a moment when museums around the world are rethinking their histories, collections, and social responsibilities, a dialogue held in Łódź,...

Guest Author 22 December 2025

Painting

The Saddest Paintings in Art History

Of the broad spectrum of human emotions, sadness is the one that has been a common underlying element of many famous artworks to date. The...

Sam Malone 18 September 2024

Animals

Hieronymus Bosch’s Creepy Owls

Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter. He must have lived in two worlds simultaneously – the real one and a world of his...

Zuzanna Stańska 24 September 2025

Sir John Lavery, The Chess Players, 1929, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom Art State of Mind

Not Only Queen’s Gambit—Chess in Art

The Queen’s Gambit series, produced by Netflix, has taken the world by storm and inspired many people to take up chess. A fantastic novel of the...

Joanna Kaszubowska 27 August 2025

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821, The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom, Wikimedia. Romanticism

John Constable in 10 Paintings: Quietly Radical

John Constable’s The Hay Wain has become the embodiment of rural nostalgia: England’s “green and pleasant land” fixed in the dappled...

Catriona Miller 9 April 2026

Women Artists

Alexandra Exter: Multi-Talented Cubo-Futurist in Paris

Alexandra Exter was a painter and designer of the Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde. Her work isn’t limited to just one genre or movement. She was...

Errika Gerakiti 31 March 2025

Fashion

Sonia Delaunay and Clothing: Geometry in Fashion

Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a busy woman. She was an officer of the French Legion of Honor, a wife of a famous painter, and an artist herself. On...

Magda Michalska 6 February 2026

Women Artists

Pan Yuliang: From Being Seen to Seeing

Pan Yuliang lived many lives in one lifetime. She was a girl from Yangzhou who entered adulthood under precarious circumstances, a student in...

Wen Gu 13 April 2026

WTF Art History

Listen to the Butt Music on Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is a three-part altarpiece showing the Garden of Eden on the left and a vision of hell on the right.

Zuzanna Stańska 14 April 2026

James Ensor painting in his Ostend studio, 1933. Artist Stories

James Ensor in 10 Paintings

James Sidney Edouard, known as James Ensor, was a Belgian painter and printmaker best known for his colorful compositions, imbued with both...

Natalia Iacobelli 13 April 2026

Erotica

The 10 Most Scandalous Nudes in Art

We’re here to let you in on a pretty widely known secret about art history: it is all about sex. Nude representations of men and women caused...

Zuzanna Stańska 20 May 2025

Pop art

10 Pop Art Paintings You Should Know

Dominating the 20th century with iconic imagery, pop art’s effects on the art world are still being felt today. Here are 10 of the most significant...

Guest Author 6 August 2025