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Stories in Art that you'll love, handpicked by our team.

The Cholmondeley Ladies. Top Story - March 2024.
Take a couple of 17th century aristocrats, an unknown painter, a striking portrait and an inquisitive seven-year-old. Introduce the ingredients, stir gently, and wait for a response.
By Andy Potts3 years ago in Art
To Frog or Not to Frog. Top Story - March 2024.
To frog or not to frog is a question that many knitters/crocheters have asked themselves when doing a project. Frogging is up to the individual. You may be asking what is frogging? Frogging is when you make a mistake and you have to rip it apart. If the mistake doesn’t bother you then you can leave it and move on. But if it does bother you then you will have to frog it.
By Lisa Briskey3 years ago in Art
Exploring The Unequal Marriage. Top Story - February 2024.
The Unequal Marriage (1862) by Vasili Vladimirovich Pukirev is a Realism work of art, which depicts the inequalities in marriage arrangements of the time. The painting depicts inequalities of age and wealth, as a young girl from an impoverished background is arranged to be married to a rich, old man. The painting was wildly praised for both it's skill and how it handled a controversial, yet important topic of older, affluent men taking younger women (sometimes children) as their next wife.
By Bri Craig3 years ago in Art
My Needlepoint Journey. Top Story - January 2024.
My journey into the world of needlepoint began as a little girl of seven years old. It was watching my Mother, Nana, and my older sister, Christine, sitting around the living room chit-chatting about the latest soap opera, “Guiding Light,” working away on colorful needlepoint tapestries.
By Daphsam3 years ago in Art
Lady Helen lands in London. Top Story - January 2024.
This is one lady I expect to see a lot of over the coming months, along with the other great celebrity fashion portraits on show at Tate Britain in London from February.
By Raymond G Taylorabout a month ago in Art
Art Review: “Everything Flows” . Top Story - January 2024.
A simple sentiment, yet so all encompassing. Walking into the Roca London Gallery was like retreating from the everyday, like entering another world – one in which structure and fluidity walked hand in hand. Astounded by Hadid’s skill, I began to truly appreciate the wondrous potential of art and architecture; of being able to embody feelings in their most abstract form. How was it that a place could resonate as if it were speaking directly to me? And what was it that it was trying to tell me, or more accurately, show me?
By Anayimi Okuboyejo3 years ago in Art
My Sister Was An Artist. Top Story - January 2024.
It was simple for my sister to create a doll in no time and without any qualms and they would turn out every time. We made dolls for Christmas one year for our daughters and granddaughters.
By Denise E Lindquist3 years ago in Art
Beautiful Art That Hurts and Haunts. Top Story - January 2024.
I've read this story recently and it just wouldn't let me go, so I have decided to fill the gaps the way I can, by imagining the back story.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Art
Scaffold - Controversial Art and it's Aftermath. Top Story - January 2024. Content Warning.
In May of 2017, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN was just about to open it’s doors after renovations with Sam Durant’s sculpture “Scaffold” among them. But just days before the actual opening, Walker’s Curator Olga Viso put out a statement about her new found discovery that ‘Scaffold’ was offending many Dakota natives. Scaffold caused a controversy that brought up generational trauma in many Dakota natives as well as bringing light to an important question: should white artists be appropriating other races and culture’s pain in their art work?
By QuirkyMin3 years ago in Art
Behind the Curtains. Top Story - December 2023.
Today marked another chapter in the ongoing saga of auditions—an exhilarating yet nerve-wracking journey that we, actors, embark upon with both trepidation and excitement. The audition room, that sacred space where dreams either take flight or gently land, is a realm unto itself, holding the power to shape destinies in the span of a few minutes.
By Andy Kru3 years ago in Art
A Little Too Personal.... Top Story - November 2023.
One crisp October morning at the height of the very beginning of 2010s, Tumblr girls, skinny waists and drug habits, our high school psychology teacher dropped a ticking bomb on us by admitting that “I’m jealous of those of you that are of a 100% origin.”
By Paulina Pachel3 years ago in Art
Unspoken. Top Story - October 2023.
She didn’t know what to say to him, at that moment she didn’t want to burden him with her feelings. She looked over to find him smiling with the same smile that got them through her cancer last year. She reached for his hand with just her fingers and he slowly grasped her hand and fit it perfectly between his. Without looking over to check on her he smiled a little more and put both their hands in his lap. She let a single tear fall down her cheek and at that moment he put his other hand on top of hers and turned to face her with eyes saying that everything will be alright. He took his free hand and curessed the side of her face as she lay her warm cheeks in his calaced palm and as she nuzzled into the warm embrace she couldn’t help but let a couple more tears fall. The man heard the army bus start to turn that corner to proceed that long driveway to their house and stood up straight. His smile hasn’t completely left him but you could tell her was focused. Slowly pulling away his hand from hers, and from her cheek, he stood up and grabbed his cane safely resting on the side of the bench they had been sitting on, The woman stood up to watch as her husband made his way down those steps from their porch they both walked up for the first time over 30 years ago and prayed that it wouldn’t be the last. He got on the bus without once looking back and she watched him through the bus window as he went to take his seat. She stood there, still, without a tear to show, she knew in that moment, that it was her time to be strong now.
By K. Waters3 years ago in Art