Egon Schiele Was Born 136 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Were Called Pornography. Now They’re Called Masterpieces.
Egon Schiele was born on June 12, 1890, in Tulln, Austria. He died 28 years later during the Spanish flu […]
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Diego Velázquez Was Born 427 Years Ago Today. The Rokeby Venus and the Suffragette Who Slashed It.
On June 6, 1599, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in Seville, Spain. Four centuries later, he is
The Origin of the World: Gustave Courbet\’s 1866 Masterpiece and the 160-Year War Against Looking at Naked Bodies
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Manet\’s Olympia: The 1865 Scandal That Exposed Every Power Structure in Art
In 1865, \u00c9douard Manet hung a painting at the Paris Salon that made the most powerful people in France look
Nudity vs. Sexuality in Art: Why the Distinction Matters (and Who Gets to Decide)
Nudity vs. Sexuality in Art: Why the Distinction Matters (and Who Gets to Decide) Walk through any major museum and
Konstantin Somov Died 87 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude a Weapon Against Russian Censorship.
May 6, 1939 — Paris, France. On this day, Konstantin Andreyevich Somov died at the age of 69, an exile
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Was Born Today, 146 Years Ago. He Made the Nude the Weapon That Broke German Art.
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When Museums Call Art “Political”, the Body Is Usually the First Thing on Trial
A recent Southern California museum controversy offered a familiar lesson: institutions do not usually say they are censoring art. They