Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

What happens in an artist’s private life? In public, Duncan Grant was a charismatic and influential painter, a member of the Bloomsbury group of artists and intellectuals who flourished in London ...

July 3 would have marked Franz Kafka’s 139th birthday. To this day, the literary legend’s name rings so ubiquitous that we use it as an adjective. He still has a few thrills in store. This spring, ...

Edvard Munch, “Angry Dog” (ca 1938–43), watercolor, one of many images generated by Edvard Munch of a neighbor’s dog with whom he had a contentious relationship (all images courtesy of the Munch ...

Among the many wonders that technological advancements have granted us, one of the most convenient is how they've simplified art. Digital art has been a thing as far back as the introduction of ...

Every exquisite drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the founder of modern neuroscience, is marred by a curious mark. Here is the little-known story behind it. Working alone at the turn of the 20th ...

MCP: The stream of books about Louis Kahn, nearly a half century after his death, continues. What accounts for this permanent academic and architectural fascination with him? Why do we keep circling ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government organisations to investigate teacher standards and refugee resettlement. She is on the Board of Directors ...