Seven Errors Game with Lucas Cranach the Elder
Do you like games? Your mission in today’s game is to identify seven differences between the artworks of Lucas Cranach the Elder that I chose...
Rute Ferreira 22 June 2018
Special
Do You Watch ‘Love Island’? See This Art Special
At the moment, the annual summer show ‘Love Island’ on ITV is a top topic in the UK where I live. If you don’t know what I’m...
Magda Michalska 19 June 2018
Painting Of The Week: Kamal-ol-Molk And The Perfection Of The Mirror Hall
Have you heard of the Iranian painter Kamal-ol-Molk? This is the name by which the artist Mohammad Ghaffari, who excelled in the production of...
Rute Ferreira 17 June 2018
Grant Wood And His Wry Sense of Humor
By the time you read this, the Grant Wood exhibit in the Whitney Museum in New York City will be over. ‘American Gothic’ will be heading back to...
Howard Schwartz 14 June 2018
World Cup Opening Game with LS Lowry
The FIFA World Cup begins in Russia on Thursday! Whether you’re fans of football, or you get bored watching the telly, it’s always fun to...
Magda Michalska 11 June 2018
Restoration of “Last Supper” You Had No Idea Existed
Everybody knows Last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci hosted in the Milanese church Santa Maria delle Grazie. But does anyone know another...
Magda Michalska 6 June 2018
Playing the Museum Dice Game – Roll yourself through the museum!
Do you think of a museum as a serious place where visitors look at artworks in silence? Are you hesitant to take your kids to an art museum, afraid...
Sandra Boks 5 June 2018
Fernando Botero’s Guide to Colombian History and Culture
The Most Colombian of Colombian Artists New York City. Barcelona, Bilbao, and Madrid. Paris, France. Goslar and Bamberg, Germany. Vaduz,...
Kacper Grass 30 May 2018
Misunderstood Music, Forbidden Romance and Richard Gerstl’s Art
When an avant-garde composer and painter becomes friends with an avant-garde painter, their relationship will be a stormy one. And if the wife of one...
Magda Michalska 22 May 2018
A Study of Loneliness and Isolation: The Man in Blue by Francis Bacon
So here he is. A mysterious guy in a suit, drinking at the hotel bar. Everything is dark around him, he himself seems to be blurry and undefined...
Zuzanna Stańska 20 May 2018
The Explosive Life and Death of Carel Fabritius
There is very little known about the life of Carel Fabritius. The scholars didn’t really get a chance to delve into archival materials about...
Magda Michalska 16 May 2018
Painting Of The Week: J. A. D. Ingres, Paolo and Francesca
Paolo and Francesca is painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, produced in seven known versions between 1814 and 1819. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 May 2018
