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Cloudbusting in the Big Sky
Recalling when pop videos became cinematic art, with Kate Bush at the…
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
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Scene of a Deluge: Painting Pre-Romantic Peril
The surprising story of a radical pre-Romantic painting…
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Kim Vertue
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Aug 29
Dance, Dance, Dance!
Romancing Through Time with the Paintings of Renoir and Vettriano
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Yuri Minamide
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Aug 23
Japanese Kawaii Culture: Small and Adorable Things Reflect Your Heart
Exploring the origins of a soft…
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
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Living the Nightmare with Saint Anthony
Temptation, hallucination, and inspiration — a saint’s…
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Kim Vertue
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Aug 9
Blue Mountains, Blue Riders
Gabriele Münter and the evolution of an extraordinary sense of colour and…
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Remy Dean
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Aug 2
Embracing Tomorrow — ‘Deny’ by Utaha • 詩羽
A potent, heartfelt mini-movie that speaks to teenage…
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Remy Dean
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Jul 30
Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘
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The return to colossal sculpture presented a paradigm of…
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
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Jul 23
What Does this Brueghel Painting Really Mean?
A new interpretation of the famous painting of ‘The…
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Kerry Dooley Young
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A Realist in an Age of Imagination: Charles Ethan Porter
The talented nineteenth-century painter from…
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