Art World Art Bites: Inside Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Recipe Collection A posthumously published cookbook includes directions for making stewed eels, rum punch, and a dessert known as 'The Convent Serpent.' By Andrew Russeth, Jun 22, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Marcel Duchamp Had a Thing for Chess He turned the game into Dadaist performance art. By Tim Brinkhof, Jun 20, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Manet and Morisot’s Creative—and Complicated—Bond The pair of impressionists had an intense relationship and were possibly lovers. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 19, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Why Louise Bourgeois Loved Spiders The artist is known for her towering arachnids, but where did the inspiration come from? By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 17, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Hilma af Klint Predicted Her Own Posthumous Fame The Swedish artist’s legacy was secured several decades after her death. By Verity Babbs, Jun 14, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Was Leonardo a Vegetarian Before It Was Trendy? The evidence isn’t conclusive, but the man had definite opinions on how animals should be treated. By Brian Boucher, Jun 13, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Where Did the Paris Salon Come From? Beginning in 1725, the French exhibition format was the ultimate arbiter of taste. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 12, 2024
Art World Art Bites: What Was Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Survival Kit? The painter proposed these kits to help anyone, artist or not, survive modern society By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 10, 2024
Art World Art Bites: How Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Scandalized French Society With a Smile The artist’s self-portrait with her daughter raised eyebrows with her open mouth. By Verity Babbs, Jun 1, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Paul McCarthy’s ‘Humiliating’ Christmas Tree Paris asked the artist for a Christmas tree. He gave them a giant butt plug instead. By Tim Brinkhof, May 30, 2024
Art World Art Bites: How the Met Got Its Ancient Egyptian Temple Winning the temple was game of art, money, and politics. By Richard Whiddington, May 29, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Inside the Feverish Dream Sequence Dalí Concocted for Hitchcock The director sought out the artist for a surreal scene in 1945's "Spellbound." By Vittoria Benzine, May 28, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Monet Had an Appetite for Destruction (of His Own Paintings) The Impressionist may have wrecked up to 500 "unsatisfactory" canvases. By Brian Boucher, May 27, 2024
Art World Art Bites: How Tamara de Lempicka’s Ashes Ended Up in a Volcano The doyenne of Art Deco projected a life of glamour, from Paris to New York. By Richard Whiddington, May 26, 2024
Art World Art Bites: The Tumultuous Friendship Between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas The pair of Impressionists clearly influenced each other's groundbreaking work. By Richard Whiddington, May 25, 2024