Work Must Still Be Done – A Revisionist Look at Black Artists in the UK
Britain’s fraught history of imperial conquest, displacement, cultural whitewashing and enslavement will perpetually haunt the pseudo-patriotism surrounding a…
Category: Visual Art
The fading distinction between original and copy: Rethinking the definition of the work of art through W. Benjamin
In 1936, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote the essay The Work of Art in the Age of…
Gustav Klimt through the lense of Schopenhauerian philosophy
In fin-de-siècle Vienna of the early 20th Century, Klimt publicly denounced the subject of Philosophy, alongside modern science, as incapable of addressing…
AI artists: a change to how we value art?
The Turing Test, a famous thought experiment designed to prove the existence of human intelligence in a computer,…
The Drive-thru Museum
Museums and art galleries are fundamentally social spaces. They encourage connection and communication, they are community-based and cultivate…
The Boschi Di Stefano Museum-Home: highlights from a prominent example of the Milanese interwar collecting taste
Hidden in a side street in the city centre, far from the main touristic hotspots, the Boschi Di…
The Portland Art Museum and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest has always enchanted me. For those unfamiliar, this is the area—also known as Cascadia—of Canada…
4 Underrated Highlights of the Capodimonte National Museum
Capodimonte National Museum is one of the largest museums in Italy, meaning you could spend hours if not…
On Peggy Guggenheim and her artistic début in New York
To conclude the week dedicated to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I would like to tell you about the…
On Germaine Richier and her leading-edge sculptures
Continuing with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection theme, today I want to present to you one of the rare…