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Who Said Paintings Aren’t Memeable?

How To Wreck a Museum

Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories' is bad-which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale.

Paintings of Battles That Go Unreasonably Hard

Unique Aesthetics: The Great Schema

The Biggest Gifts to University Art Museums in 2026

Anne and Arthur Goldstein, Kay Culbreath Heller and J. Roderick Heller, Nancy Delman Portnoy and other philanthropic collectors recently placed major holdings where they can be stu...

Back to School With Winslow Homer

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The Case for the Campus Art Museum in an Age of Cuts

Despite financial pressures and political headwinds, university art museums sustain ambitious, ethically grounded collecting and exhibition programs reflective of an ongoing commit...

Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine

"We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say. Do stories and artists like this matter to y...

Unique Aesthetics: 1920s New York

How to Look at a Painting

Lauren Jackson, The New York Times The earth tried to swallow the coastal city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908. A quake came first. The ground rocked and then rotated, as if the city...

100 art trivia questions that will challenge every art lover (with answers)

Whether you're planning a trivia night, leading an art class, or looking for a fun way to test your knowledge, this collection of 100 art trivia questions and answers is ready to u...

What I Learned in Art School

In 1993 I attended art school in a city that inspired everyone who lived there. It was a time close enough to my youth that I was able to abandon myself to the raucous nightlife it...

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A trio of painted steel works created in 1962 by renowned American abstract sculptor David Smith in Washington D.C, USA — REU

The History and Iconography of the Image of The Savior Not Made By Hands

Zhanna KurbatovaIn 1204, the Crusaders sacked Constantinople and carried the Image Not Made by Hands away from the Byzantine Empire. Its subsequent fate remains unknown.

La Vaughn Belle’s artwork reminds us that history refuses to be buried 

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Simon-Marq glassmakers craft stained-glass windows for Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral in Reims, France. — AFP

How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete

A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.

Picturing Texas Art: Cultural Pillars

This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from the month of July, around th...

The Hardest Paintings of All Time

The Backrooms sequel needs to steal this viral art trend

Historical art styles are expanding Backrooms' lore in time and space.

Hilma af Klint in Paris

Can Abstraction have a feminine voice? Rediscovering the vision of swedish Painter Hilma af Klint rt is often […]

Restoring Rome masterpiece by Plautilla Bricci, Italy's first woman architect

Project to restore Rome altarpiece together with Bricci's rightful place in art history. A non-profit organisation dedicated to recovering the work of overlooked female artists ha...

Thieves steal 4 Renaissance artworks in a Sicilian museum heist during an Italian holiday

Art expert Alberto Fiz estimated the value of the stolen works at 70 million euros ($81 million) to 80 million euros ($92 million).

5 Iconic Famous Paintings To Bring Classic Art Into Your Living Room

Blank walls don’t tell much about the person in the room. Printed reproductions are a more affordable substitute for original art, but they are often dull and not as closely connec...