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QUIZ: Guess Who Taught Me! Great Artists and Their Teachers

Kate Wojtczak 26 April 2025

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QUIZ Hats in Art Part 2—Whose Hat Is That?

Kate Wojtczak 26 April 2025

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QUIZ: Do You Know These Famous Sculptures?

Szymon Jocek 26 April 2025

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QUIZ: Discover the Highlights of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Guest Author 26 April 2025

Controversial Artists: Artist Stories

Controversial or Criminal? Problematic Artists and Cancel Culture

Great art pushes boundaries and challenge norms. But how should we react to works by artists with a history of truly horrifying behaviour?

Candy Bedworth 25 April 2025

Artist Stories

Pablo Picasso and Women in His Life

Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most influential and recognizable painter of the 20th century, is well known for his tumultuous (or even abusive)...

Pola Otterstein 25 April 2025

Artist Stories

Paul Gauguin—Master or Monster?

When Paul Gauguin visited Tahiti in the 1890’s was he a genius in search of paradise, or a seedy sex tourist? A painter, printmaker, sculptor,...

Candy Bedworth 25 April 2025

Artist Stories

A Creative Lunatic: Adolf Wölfli in 5 Artworks

Adolf Wölfli is now known alongside the label “Outsider Art” or Art Brut, a term Jean Dubuffet coined in 1945 to bring attention to...

Katerina Papouliou 25 April 2025

Renaissance

Titian Revisited: Grand Old Man of the Renaissance or Dirty Old Man?

Titian’s sensuous interpretation of classical myths of love, temptation, and punishment came together for the first time in nearly 500 years, at...

Guest Author 25 April 2025

Architecture

10 Most Famous Brutalist Buildings in the World

The 2024 film The Brutalist, a 3.5 hour epic for which Adrien Brody won an Oscar, has renewed public interest in Brutalist architecture. Whether...

Julia Bourbois 24 April 2025

john singer sargent madame x studies Artist Stories

Exploring John Singer Sargent’s Unknown Drawings

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is primarily known and celebrated for his massive virtuoso portraits of late 19th and early 20th-century American,...

Alexandra Kiely 24 April 2025

Impressionism

Did You Know That Monet Was a Master of Caricatures?

If I say, Claude Monet, you say waterlilies! Impressionism! Monet or Manet? Well, this time we would like to talk to you about a part of Monet’s...

Giordana Goretti 24 April 2025