How Art Consultants Find Artists for Hotels and Offices
How art consultants find artists for hotels and offices, what they pay, and how to get on their radar without a gallery.
Ruth Asawa’s Wire Sculptures: From Camp to MoMA
How Ruth Asawa turned a wartime internment camp and a Toluca market basket into wire sculptures now filling MoMA and the Guggenheim.
Gesture Drawing Tips Every Beginner Gets Wrong
Most gesture drawing tips focus on speed. Here's what actually fixes stiff, lifeless figures, from timing to line of action.
How Art Auctions Work (And What They Don’t Tell You)
How art auctions work, from hammer price and reserve to buyer's premium and chandelier bidding, explained through Banksy's most famous stunt.
The Tortured Artist Myth: What the Research Actually Shows
The tortured artist myth says great art needs suffering. Here's what the research on creativity and mental illness actually shows.
Vorticism Art Movement: The Rebellion That Went to War
The Vorticism art movement lasted eighteen months, then vanished into the trenches of WWI. Here's the story BLAST magazine never finished.
The Story Behind Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses
The story behind Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Cypresses: painted in an asylum, with three versions and a startling owner in between.
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Self-Portrait No One Expected
Paula Modersohn-Becker painted the first nude self-portrait by a woman, then died at 31, almost entirely unknown.
The Knoedler Gallery Forgery Scandal: Inside an $80m Fraud
How the Knoedler Gallery forgery scandal fooled New York's art world for years, until a single paint pigment gave the fakes away.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Scandal Behind the Art
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood scandalised Victorian art with a secret code, a drowned model and an exhumed grave.