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 Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon photographed by Harry Diamond via National Portrait Gallery

Adrian Mercer

The Art and Relationship of Lucian Freud and Fr...

Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon’s fierce friendship shaped modern British art, an intense bond of admiration, rivalry, and psychological depth in paint.

Yun Shouping, Album of flowers, bamboo, fruits, and vegetables © Phoenix Art Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Ken Howie.

Isabelle Fenwick

The Refined Power of Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting

Explore the poetic, spiritual, and rebellious worlds of six Qing Dynasty painters who reshaped tradition into personal expression.

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.

Pablo Picasso, Joie de Vivre, 1946 via Pinault Collection

Hugo Merz

Why Did Artists Fall in Love with the South of ...

From Cézanne to Picasso, artists escaped to the South of France for its light, solitude, and sensory richness. This is what they found.

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.