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Lee Bontecou in her Wooster Street Studio, 1963. Photo Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. Art © Lee Bontecou.

Rowan Whit

Legendary Women Artists Photographed In Their S...

A rare glimpse into the creative sanctuaries of eight pioneering women artists who changed the face of modern and contemporary art.

Alexander Calder, The Ghost, 1964 © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York

Sable Monroe

How Alexander Calder Brought Joan Miró’s Art to...

Joan Miró painted dreams; Alexander Calder gave them form. Discover how Calder’s mobiles brought Miró’s whimsical world into kinetic 3D.

Mark Rothko, Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, 1944 © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York via MoMA

Lena Whitmore

Before the Color Fields: Rothko’s Forgotten Ear...

Before the floating rectangles, Rothko painted myth, melancholy, and men. Discover the haunting beauty of his often-overlooked early work.

 Barbara Hepworth in her studio, 1963. Photograph by Val Wilmer. © Bowness, Hepworth Estate.

Miles Avery

The Legacy of Barbara Hepworth and Why Her Work...

While history often spotlights Henry Moore or Brancusi, Hepworth shaped modern sculpture with equal force and far greater subtlety.

Untitled (Bacchus), 2005–2008 via Christie's © Cy Twombly Foundation

Rebecca Levenson

Not Everyone Gets It: Cy Twombly and the Abstra...

An exploration of Cy Twombly’s life, legacy, and the backlash to abstract art—why his scribbles aren’t nonsense, but modern poetry in motion.

Arshile Gorky, One Year the Milkweed, 1944 via National Gallery of Art

Adrian Mercer

12 Breathtaking Paintings You’ve Probably Never...

Explore a selection of 12 lesser-known paintings from Symbolist reveries to quiet modernist scenes, chosen for their mood, mystery, and immersive visual poetry.

David Hockney, circa 1970s, wearing a checkered suit and signature round glasses. A pioneer of British Pop Art, Hockney's personal style became as recognizable as his paintings.  Image Credit: Photographer unknown. Image sourced from Men's Fashion Magazin

Elise Marlowe

Not Just a Canvas: Artists Who Were Also Style ...

They shaped the art world with their vision and turned heads with their wardrobes. These artists made personal style part of their legacy.

Van Gogh, The Night Cafe, 1888 via Yale University Art Gallery/Wikipedia

Isabelle Fenwick

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Tragic Feud and a Sev...

In 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin’s vision of an art utopia in Arles spiraled into madness, betrayal, and one of art history’s greatest feuds.

Peggy Guggenheim via The Guggenheim New York

Hugo Merz

Peggy Guggenheim: The Heiress Who Built Modern Art

Peggy Guggenheim’s lifelong pursuit of daring, innovation, and emotional truth transformed the 20th-century art world, one acquisition at a time.

Marc Chagall, The Concert, 1957 via marcchagall.net

Rowan Whit

8 Masterful Marc Chagall Paintings You Should Know

Discover eight, arguably lesser-known, masterpieces by Marc Chagall that reveal new dimensions of his dreamlike, emotional, and symbolic world.