Intersection of Coffee and Creating: Coffee Shops and Their Purpose
The actual art of coffee making has steadily been growing for years. We have surpassed and moved past instant coffee, onto specialty coffee shops and...
Rachel Witte 5 February 2019
WTF Art History
The Muse Throughout Art History: Inspiration, Love, and Friendship
In terms of Ancient Greek mythology, the term muse refers to nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, with each daughter having her own attribute, which...
Rachel Witte 26 January 2019
Leaving Home as a Genre in Art: The Need to be on the Move
I don’t know if it is a millennial thing, similarly being in the same age group, or because now in 2019 we have access to everyone’s...
Rachel Witte 12 January 2019
Rape? What Rape? Artworks Everyone Should See
In October 2017, #MeToo movement was founded, with the hashtag spreading virally and women all over the world sharing their stories of experience of...
Magda Michalska 7 January 2019
2019: Year of the Pig and Pigs in Painting
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year closing the twelve-year lunar calendar cycle. It’s named after the Pig because according to...
Magda Michalska 4 January 2019
New Year’s Resolutions For 2019?
The nearer 2019 is, the more I think about new things I would like to do in the incoming year. And I’m not even talking about resolutions or...
Magda Michalska 1 January 2019
The Art of Metamorphosis
“she broke the rules of time, fragmenting and aligning it, to sew the fundamental phases of her subjects’ transformation: she brought...
Artur Deus Dionisio 29 December 2018
Most Beautiful Adorations of the Shepherds for Christmas
Past Christmases we showed you Nativity scenes, wintery landscapes, or even Andy Warhol’s Christmas trees. This year I want to show you...
Magda Michalska 25 December 2018
5 Masterpieces with Multiple Versions
Authenticity and originality are invaluable aspects of any work of art. But across pages of art history, we can find artworks and masterpieces with...
Maria Frazzoni 4 December 2018
GIF IT UP 2018 – create animated GIFs from public domain artworks
GIF IT UP is an annual gif-making competition for the most creative reuse of digitised cultural heritage material. This year’s 5th edition is run...
Europeana 1 October 2018
The iPad-designed David Hockney’s Queen’s Window Presented At Westminster Abbey
David Hockney is an artist who lately, while creating his works often reaches for… his iPad. A coloured window designed on a tablet has been...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 September 2018
Imagined Paradise Lost: Raqib Shaw’s Reinterpretations of Old Masters
Raqib Shaw was born in Calcutta in 1974 to a family of luxury goods merchants who sold rugs, shawls, jewels and antiques, hence already from a young...
Magda Michalska 22 September 2018
