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
Art World Art Bites: Why Joseph Beuys Spent Three Days Locked Up With a Coyote The small animal plays an outsize role in various Native American cosmologies. By Brian Boucher, May 23, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Was Leonardo da Vinci the Original Bird Lady? Not only did he try to unlock their secrets of flight, he also advocated for their humane treatment. By Vittoria Benzine, May 22, 2024
Art World Art Bites: The ‘Psycho’ House Was Modeled After This Hopper Painting Both artists explored the loneliness that results from modernization. By Tim Brinkhof, May 20, 2024
Art World Art Bites: What’s With All the Dogs in Lavinia Fontana’s Portraits? Whether lap dogs or hunting breeds, canines are a motif throughout the painter’s oeuvre. By Vittoria Benzine, May 19, 2024
Art World Art Bites: The Matisse Painting That Sparked a Protest A century ago, a group of anti-Modernist art students staged a mock trial for the Fauvist. By Tim Brinkhof, May 17, 2024
Art World Art Bites: The World’s First Museum, Complete with Wall Labels Europeans with their "cabinets of curiosity" were late on the scene compared to the Neo-Babylonians. By Richard Whiddington, May 15, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Why Frida Kahlo Hated the French Surrealists Was Frida Kahlo a Surrealist? She didn’t think so. And she hated them. By Verity Babbs, May 13, 2024
