What Makes an Artwork Famous?
Michelangelo. Leonardo da Vinci. Pablo Picasso. Georgia O’Keeffe. Rembrandt. The Renaissance. Cubism. Impressionism. More than likely, you have...
Rachel Witte 20 January 2022
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Nikko Toshogu Shrine: Japan’s UNESCO World Heritage Site
Among one of the most scenic areas of Japan, in the middle of the Honshu island, and at the foot of the Mt. Nantai volcano, lies the small city of...
Guest Profile 17 January 2022
Heirs to Dada: Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art
Dada was certainly the most virulent European avant-garde movement. Its members attacked not only artistic creation, but society as a whole.
Amélie Pascutto 16 January 2022
Museo Egizio in Turin: Follow the Guide!
Have you ever been to the Museo Egizio in Turin, in northern Italy? Located in the old town, this institution brings together more than 300,000...
Montaine Dumont 13 January 2022
The Truth is in the Soil: The Elegiac Odyssey of Ioanna Sakellaraki
No phenomenon pertaining to human existence is as infallible and foundational as death. Expectedly, an occurrence that has this kind of defining...
Erol Degirmenci 13 January 2022
John Singer Sargent’s Charcoal Portraits at The Morgan Library
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York in October 2019. It was the first-ever museum...
Alexandra Kiely 12 January 2022
How to Create a Mosaic? Learn the Techniques with Artist Alison Pierse
Let’s talk tiles! Come on a journey to explore mosaic techniques and terminology with artist and tutor Alison Pierse. If you don’t know your...
Candy Bedworth 11 January 2022
Museo Soumaya – 21st Century Spectacle in Mexico City
Frida Kahlo’s self portraits and reproductions of Our Lady of Guadalupe are baked into the symbolism of Mexico City. Comparable to these...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 10 January 2022
Five Takes on Carnival in Art
Carnival is the festive season that comes before the Lean in Western Christian tradition. People come together during the carnival to celebrate...
Joanna Kaszubowska 10 January 2022
The Warli Painting Artist Jivya Soma Mashe
Jivya Soma Mashe is an internationally acclaimed Warli painting artist. A tribal artist from India, Mashe was known for wonderful Warli paintings,...
Urvi Chheda 7 January 2022
Atala: The Tragedy that Transcended Pages
In the 19th century, Europeans went crazy for one story: Atala, or the Story of Two Lovers in the Desert. It is a novel by René de Chateaubriand...
Jimena Escoto 3 January 2022
Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New—New Year Traditions Around the World
New Year’s is the last holiday of the old year, the first holiday of the new year and, as such, humans have been marking it for longer than we...
Ledys Chemin 1 January 2022
