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Museum Stories

10 Masterpieces That Paved The Way To Modernism From ‘Degas to Picasso’ in the Ashmolean Museum

From February 10th to 7th May Oxford is a place to be for all art lovers. In Ashmolean Museum, which is the oldest university museum in the world...

Zuzanna Stańska 4 March 2017

art for crawling babies Erotica

Oh Cupid, Mon Amour! Cupids Just Being Awesome

Who wouldn’t like to come across a lovely cupid one day? Who wouldn’t like to be a target of his sweet arrow? Sending you a bunch of...

Magda Michalska 13 February 2017

Masterpiece Stories

Mars And Venus, Sandro Botticelli (Painting Of The Week)

Valentines Day is coming. What else could we feature in our weekly series “Painting of the Week” if not a scene of Mars and Venus...

Zuzanna Stańska 12 February 2017

Art Forms

Edward Hopper’s Paintings Recreated As Photographs

Richard Tuschman is a fine art photographer, whose works has appeared on a number of book covers, ad campaigns and exhibitions. In his project,...

Zuzanna Stańska 10 February 2017

Art State of Mind

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

Erotica

The Best of Leda and the Swan Paintings

If you ever see a painting presenting a girl with a swan – it must be Leda. Leda and the Swan is a story from Greek mythology in which the god...

Zuzanna Stańska 3 February 2017

Art State of Mind

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

Women Artists

Elsie Driggs And Her Battle For Large Forms

It’s hard to imagine that a female artist could be advised to leave her work unsigned to avoid prejudicing the gallery owner, but for women artists...

Wendy Gray 31 January 2017

Artist Stories

David Bomberg – A New Machinery For Picture Making

Go into any art gallery the length and breadth of the UK and you are bound to find a Bomberg. David Bomberg, born in Birmingham in 1890 to...

Wendy Gray 25 January 2017

Cats

Fat Cat Art – Cat’s Guide to Classic Art

There was one fat cat in the world that made all art in the world better. And it’s not my cat unfortunately. It’s Zarathustra. Have you...

Zuzanna Stańska 24 January 2017

Bizarre

Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures

Did you even wonder how art could look like in the age of AI and high-tech body enhancements? There’s a lot of sci-fi movies like Ex-machina,...

Piotr Policht 13 January 2017

Museum Stories

How To Tackle Art With Kids: Try Some Philosophy!

Discover 3 artworks, the questions they raise and what children have to say about them. At the Kröller-Müller Museum we have been experimenting...

Sandra Boks 12 January 2017