Art History Art Bites: How MoMA Put Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans in Order MoMA acquired the paintings for a reported $15 million in 1996. By Richard Whiddington, Feb 29, 2024
Art History Art Bites: Why the Impressionists Went Gaga for Purple The invention of a true purple pigment took the art world by storm. By Verity Babbs, Feb 27, 2024
Art History The Enduring Love Stories of the Harlem Renaissance Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight were art school sweethearts. By Katie White, Feb 26, 2024
Art History Art Bites: Picasso and Braque Coined a New Art Term Of course artists had previously cut and arranged materials, but the founders of Cubism were the first to give the technique its own name. By Verity Babbs, Feb 25, 2024
Art History Art Bites: The Real Reason Behind El Greco’s Signature Stretched Perspective The Renaissance artist’s unique compositions might have been the result of astigmatism. By Verity Babbs, Feb 24, 2024
Art History Art Bites: Leonardo da Vinci’s Harpsichord-Viola Was As Complicated As It Sounds The unusual instrument was constructed using 500-year-old notes. By Verity Babbs, Feb 23, 2024
Art History Art Bites: How the Modesty Police Used Fig Leaves to Censor Nudes The “Fig Leaf Campaign” of the 1500s covered up older sculptures and paintings. By Verity Babbs, Feb 20, 2024
Art History Art Bites: Michelangelo’s Poem About How Much It Sucked to Paint the Sistine Chapel “I am not in the right place," the Old Master wrote. "I am not a painter." By Richard Whiddington, Feb 19, 2024
Art History Art Bites: How to Send Fan Mail to ‘Mona Lisa’ The enigmatic painting has a few more secrets to uncover. By Tim Brinkhof, Feb 16, 2024
Art History Art Bites: Did Leonardo Hide Music in ‘The Last Supper’? Dinner and a show. By Verity Babbs, Feb 14, 2024
Art History Fragonard’s ‘The Swing’ Is More Than Just a Frivolous Portrait of Flirtation We took a closer look at this famous scene of romantic and erotic love. By Katie White, Feb 14, 2024
Art History Art Bites: The Mystery Object in a Famous Dürer Print What might the truncated polyhedron represent? By Brian Boucher, Feb 12, 2024
Art History Airplane Mode: 7 Artists Who Were Nerds for Aviation Let's get high. By Min Chen, Feb 9, 2024
Art History Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About Richard Avedon’s Iconic Fashion Photograph ‘Dovima With Elephants’ "Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon" is currently on view at Gagosian, Paris. By Annikka Olsen, Jan 24, 2024
Art History ‘Mob Wife’ Style Is All the Rage—These Glitzy, Glamorous Women From Art History Defined the Look Artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to John Singer Sargent have captured the high drama, excessive opulence of the mob wife aesthetic. By Katie White, Jan 19, 2024
