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Tuna Özkaragöz, Resting in Space, 2025 via Instagram

Rebecca Levenson

Contemporary Artists to Discover, Follow, and C...

These six contemporary artists are building distinctive careers through imaginative paintings, compelling imagery, and strong gallery support.

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 via MoMA.

Eleanor Brooks

Artworks to Explore During This Weekend's Full ...

The moon has inspired painters for thousands of years. Explore artworks that turned a familiar celestial body into one of art history's most enduring motifs.

Installation view of the exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, 1940. Photographic Archive, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. IN106.2D.

Arthur Kingsley

5 MoMA Exhibit Archives Every Art Lover Should ...

From Post-Impressionism to industrial design and Mexican muralism, MoMA’s digital archives preserve landmark exhibitions in modern art history.

Night watchman Lenen with dog at The Night Watch, 1920 - 1940 via @rijksmuseum/Instagram

Samuel Reed

Art Institutions You Should Be Following on Ins...

Discover our curated list of museums and gallery accounts that turn collections into daily visual experiences worth following now on Instagram.

Vittore Carpaccio, Vision of St. Augustine, c. 1502 via Wikipedia/Public Domain

Eleanor Brooks

Art History Masterworks That Get Better the Lon...

Some paintings reveal themselves slowly. These masterworks reward time, offering new details, structure, and meaning the longer you look.

Sergiu Ciochina, The Kiss (detail), 2024, Paris, France via the artist’s website

Rebecca Levenson

Matching Contemporary Artists With Art History ...

Historic masters continue to shape contemporary painting through shared imagery, symbolism, and techniques, as seen in the work of painters today.

Sandro Botticelli, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti II, ca. 1483. Image via Wikimedia Commons/Artsy

Eleanor Brooks

Sandro Botticelli Paintings Every Student Shoul...

A focused study of Botticelli beyond The Birth of Venus, examining narrative, portraiture, theology, and allegory as foundations for serious art education.

Inka Essenhigh, Dawn's Early Light, 2019 via Kavi Gupta Gallery

Louisa Penrose

Living Women Artists You Should Know and Follow...

Five living women artists whose practices define current visual culture through material rigor, personal language, and sustained formal inquiry.

Henri Matisse, Dance II, 1910 via WikiArt/Public Domain

Louisa Penrose

If You Love Dance, You’ll Love These Famous Pai...

These key paintings from modern art history depict dance as discipline, abstraction, expression, and social ritual through the moving body.

Otto Dix, To Beauty, 1922 via WikiArt/Public Domain

Nathan Cole

A Curation of 20th Century Paintings You Should...

A curated guide to seven twentieth-century paintings that reveal how artists used symbolism, psychology, and myth to reshape modern visual language.