Visit in Madrid or Online: The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
We’ve found yet another reason to visit Madrid: The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza! Alright, traveling nowadays is a painful topic as it’s...
Magda Michalska 1 November 2020
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Creepy Art History: Bugs and Critters Hiding in Paintings
Creepy-crawlies: bugs, lizards, and insects. You either love them or hate them. But one place you may have thought they wouldn’t appear is in...
Kristin Urban 31 October 2020
The Art of Mia Makila: 13 Important Questions
Viewing the art of Mia Makila is like walking into a labyrinthine psyche masquerading as a shop. You open the door, the bell rings, and you realise...
Sarah Mills 30 October 2020
An Animated Cabinet of Curiosities – The Best Art GIFs
What happens when old paintings, photos, illustrations and posters which are available digitally are shared with digital artists to play with and...
Europeana 26 October 2020
Adriaen Brouwer, Painter of Emotions
The work of the Flemish Baroque painter Adriaen Brouwer excels in innovation and daring. His folk scenes, often showing drunkards and smokers in...
Michel Rutten 23 October 2020
The Art of Law: Legal Drama in Artworks
Courtrooms are associated with a wide range of emotions, from hope to anguish, tension to the mundane. While legal drama has tremendous...
Maya M. Tola 20 October 2020
Two Men, Police Uniforms, and Some Duct Tape: The Biggest Art Heist in History After 30 Years of Active Investigations
Two men, police uniforms and some duct tape; this is how Rick Abath and Randy Hestand, security men at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston,...
Ruxi Rusu 19 October 2020
Roll up, Roll up, for the Greatest Show on Earth! Jeanne Mount and Her Circus Mosaics
Artist Jeanne Mount designed a series of spectacular circus mosaics in 1969 that are as fresh and vibrant today as when they were first displayed on...
Guest Profile 18 October 2020
Painting of the Week: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
The bejeweled woman from the mosaic, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis. She is...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 October 2020
Highlights of the Clark Art Institute
The Clark Art Institute, often referred to as “The Clark,” was founded in 1950 to house the extensive art collection of Sterling and Francine...
Anastasia Manioudaki 15 October 2020
Native American Art from Donald Ellis Gallery at the Frieze Viewing Room
Donald Ellis Gallery, a New York-based dealer of Native American art, will show Native American drawings and other artworks in the Frieze Viewing...
Alexandra Kiely 8 October 2020
Stepping into the South of France with Picasso at BASTIAN
BASTIAN’s exhibition Atelier Picasso in London (3rd September – 31st October 2020) evokes the mood and heat of Picasso’s later years in...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 7 October 2020
