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
Art State of Mind
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
The Colorful Vision Of Bodys Isek Kingelez
The color was overwhelming. I was on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, visiting an exhibit called ‘Bodys Isek Kingelez:...
Howard Schwartz 5 September 2018
Arman And Six Works You Need to Know
In a world where everything seems even more disposable as the days go by, it is interesting to look to what was consumed and thrown away in the 20th...
Helena Pereira 30 August 2018
Paintings, Celebrities, And Pancakes, Pancakes, Pancakes
Happy Pancake Day, that is Shrove Tuesday, the last day of carnival season. For Christians, Lent starts tomorrow and this is the last chance to eat ...
Magda Michalska 13 February 2018
Grow Your Artsy Mustache For Movember!
Movember November is a month of raising awareness about men’s health, in particular about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s...
Magda Michalska 6 November 2017
Most Famous Babel Towers In Art
The Tower of Babel is a Near Eastern myth that is recorded in the Genesis in Old Testament and it is meant to explain the origin of different...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 February 2017
Need A Hug? Paintings Which Embrace
Are you having a pretty bad week? Recently I have been really stressed and desperately needed a hug. If you need one too, I’m sending you some...
Magda Michalska 2 February 2017
Boxing Day paintings!
Boxing Day, Boxing Day! I hope you have found/ are going to find many lovely gifts today! Imagine though, finding a real painting under the Christmas...
Magda Michalska 26 December 2016
The Young Pope – All 10 Paintings From The Opening Explained
The Young Pope is a new drama television series created and directed by one of my favorite directors – Paolo Sorrentino (known for Great...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 December 2016
All Saints Day With A Twist
First of November for many of the people looks like this: Typical 1st of November William-Adolphe Bouguereau, All Saints Day, 1859 Ok, maybe not...
Magda Michalska 1 November 2016
