The archaeologists also came across the base of a large rectangular hall, which was realized to be the ‘curia’ (senate house) of the theatre of Pompeii. Infamously, this was the building in…
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A self-taught artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat…
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Often an artist finds their voice through decades of work. A unique signature is created. Even though the focus may shift and bend, the inimitable remains. There is no one like her…
This year’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny finds Harrison Ford in his final adventure as the legendary …
Television programs that taught art lessons have been around since television was invented, with instructors from Jon Gnagy, to Bill Alexander, to Bob Ross.
Many modern audiences, upon learning about the intricacies of Paul Gauguin’s life, adopt a distaste for him as a person. Even so, between bouts of deplorable behavior, Gauguin created art that many…
Documentation of art-induced fainting episodes dates back to the nineteenth century; the most famous account is that of French author Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), whose pen name was Stendhal.
Hank Willis Thomas’s newest sculpture, "The Embrace," a monument honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, debuted in Boston Common this winter. We took a look at some of the…
Jeff Koons discusses how Marcel Duchamp liberates artists from materiality, allowing them to pursue pure ideas.
The term zoomorphism, when applied to art, can mean any object that uses animals as a visual motif.
Bonheur put a year and a half into location-based preparatory sketching for "The Horse Fair" and pulled from a number of unique masterworks to find inspiration for the final product. Unsurprisingly,…
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are legendary sculptural and architectural splendors as well as historic testaments to human ingenuity and accomplishment. First century BCE Greek historian…
The popular imagination often dismisses Byzantium’s aesthetic as a static, even regressive contrast to classical technique. Sumptuous and flattened, Byzantine…
