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Left to right: Amadeo Modigliani, photographer and year unknown. Sourced from Pinterest, Alberto Giacometti photographed by Gordon Parks, 1951

Elise Marlowe

When Giacometti & Modigliani Seem to Speak the ...

Giacometti’s sculptures and Modigliani’s paintings share a haunting visual language of elongated forms that express the fragile essence of being.

Rembrandt, The Blinding of Samson, 1636 via Wikipedia/Public Domain

Rebecca Levenson

Shadow, City, and Self: Why Rembrandt Still Fee...

Rembrandt painted what it means to be human: grief, grace, aging, and light. From self-portraits to biblical dramas, his works remain deeply moving.

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.

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.

Dance (II), 1910 via WikiArt/Public Domain

Sable Monroe

Henri Matisse: The Joyful Mastery of Color and ...

From Fauvism to paper cut-outs, Henri Matisse redefined 20th-century art through an uninhibited embrace of color, movement, and the radical pursuit of joy.

Helen Frankenthaler, March 1960 photographed by Tony Vaccaro via Gagosian

Rebecca Levenson

Inside the Life, Work, and Legacy of Helen Fran...

Discover the history of Helen Frankenthaler's life and how she transformed abstract art with her soak-stain technique, bold color, and lasting cultural impact.