Looking for the beginnings of what would become known as Pop Art

To understand a Frank Lloyd Wright fireplace, you’ll need to know about the traditional Japanese tokonoma.

From the Model T Ford to the VW Beetle…

The London Tube Map was an infographic breakthrough demonstrating the value of combining design disciplines

Artist Rose Garrard broke the age-old tradition of the frame, freeing three fellow women artists from obscurity…

Sometimes, an artist seeks their own style through replicating that of others but does copying the work of another make it yours?

She was big in Tudor miniatures and the most successful painter you haven’t heard of…

How Paul Klee’s colourful transition from observation to abstraction distilled the sense of place…

Searching for the secret message of hope in the iconic, and harrowing, ‘Isenheim Altarpiece’…

An appropriate time to consider the Renaissance painting that’s a perennial favourite of art lovers…

We don’t know how Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made such astonishingly beautiful, delicate, and scientifically accurate models out of glass.

Chen Rong’s masterpiece of calligraphic brushwork, innovative painting technique, storytelling, and magic… all rolled into one!

Performance was an important innovation of twentieth-century Art but actions aren’t always art…

Though best known as a Symbolist for his portraits with burnished gold, Gustav Klimt’s landscapes were a big step toward ‘the Modern’.

How the kinetic typography and motion graphics of innovative designer Saul Bass helped change graphics and cinema since the 1950s

Gazing into the Dramatic and Enlightening ‘Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump’, Painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in 1768…

Feliks Topolski’s ‘Memoir of the Century’ was a labyrinthine installation of illustrations well worth remembering…

Raphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw themselves — successors to the great classical Greek philosophers…

We all understand fluent design language, but not all designers have used it as well as Wells Coates did…

Looking back at the resounding collision of Comedy, Culture, and Commerce that became Pop Art…

Carlton Watkins and the pioneering photographers of the virgin territories drove a desire to conserve the natural beauty of America

Our most ancient art celebrates motherhood and birth, something our future depends upon!