Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter who cofounded Cubism and revolutionized modern art through iconic works like Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Robert Mapplethorpe has been dead for over three decades, but the debate around his work is still alive. What makes this notorious photographer so revolutionary?
Anna Coleman Ladd was a Neoclassical sculptor from the US who made facial prosthetics for soldiers injured in World War I.
What do sphinxes and tombstones have in common? Silence, proverbially—though not when the two came together after the death of Oscar Wilde.
In 1606, Caravaggio killed a man in a street fight and spent the rest of his life on the run.
Mark Rothko’s late paintings and color fields reveal the pursuit of transcendence, presence, and human emotion beyond language.
Not just Dracula: there were fictional vampires before Bram Stoker's, and they've only grown in popularity since. Why are we fascinated by these blood-sucking creatures?
Dimitri Shostakovich lived a “double” compositional career—one that would satisfy the Communist Party and another where he composed what his heart really felt.
