Pretty Boys Made Victorian England Panic
In nineteenth century Britain, beauty was never merely beautiful. It could decorate a drawing room, flatter a patron, elevate a poem, or soften the brutality of industrial modernity
Before Museums There Were Caravans
Islamic art cannot be understood as the art of a single place, people, language, dynasty, or style. From the seventh century to the present, it has been shaped by movement across land and sea.
The Empire That Made Luxury Dangerous
The Fatimid Caliphate produced one of the most sophisticated artistic cultures of the medieval Islamic world.
Tremendous loss for the art world.
They Wanted a Criminal. They Made an Icon.
Oscar Wilde is still most often approached as a writer, but his historical power cannot be understood through literature alone. Wilde was also one of the most visually constructed public figures of the late nineteenth century.
The Bowl Was Never Just a Bowl
Islamic art from the seventh century to the present is often introduced through architecture, calligraphy, and manuscript painting, but some of its most revealing cultural meanings were carried by portable objects.
LGBTQ+ youth with one accepting adult are 40% less likely to attempt suicide. For Pride Month, I’m quadrupling all Cups of Coffee and donating proceeds to LGBTQ+ youth crisis support and policy work. Pride is care, action, and survival.
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We’re somehow already past the midpoint of the year, and I just want to pause for a moment to say thank you 🙏🏼
The Camera Was in the Closet Too
Photography entered modern visual culture at the same time that sexuality and gender were being reshaped by law, medicine, religion, theater, mass media, and urban life.
Do Not Open That Drawer
A cabinet is never just storage. That is the first lie.
People see doors, drawers, shelves, glass, hinges, handles, escutcheons, locks, feet, cornices, and think the matter is settled.
We’re somehow already past the midpoint of the year, and I just want to pause for a moment to say thank you 🙏🏼
Honestly, thank you 🙏🏼
When I started bringing the lessons and courses here, I had no i...
Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88
Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died
David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.
He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies. Continue reading...
