Interviews & Essays

In the middle of Trafalgar Square in downtown London, the National Gallery sits, with a main collection on display that is owned by the British people. Thus, entry to the main collection is free.  As of 2019, the National Gallery was the seventh-most visited museum in the world. Here are ten interesting facts to take you inside history of the illustrious museum and its collection.

Artist Sacha Jafri isn’t afraid of a good challenge, and the British artist has taken on a big one: to raise $30 million dollars for charity by creating the world’s largest painting on canvas.

For archeologists working at Oxburgh Hall, a fifteenth-century manor in Norfolk, England, lockdown has given them the opportunity to delve a little deeper into their work.

The family of Lilly Cassirer, the painting’s owner prior to World War II, has sought to reclaim Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain (1897) from Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection since 2000.

As the orginal "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci’s works have influenced artists, scientists, architects, and great thinkers for centuries. Along with the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, his Vitruvian Man drawing is one of the most iconic images in the history of Western art.

In the early hours of July 18, a fire at the iconic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes shocked France.

Conservators at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) have discovered a treasure hidden in one of their most famous Picasso works.

Paul Klee was a force to be reckoned with in modern art.

The FBI recovered paintings in the process of being altered as well as an array of sports memorabilia in a recent raid on a Michigan farm.

Beyond restricting social interactions and physical mobility, global stay-at-home orders impacted the work of contemporary artists around the world in a number of ways.