Timed with the premiere of 'Lee,' a movie all about the life and career of war photographer Lee Miller, at the Toronto Film Festival, photographer Annie Leibovitz recreated the famous photo of Miller…
World War II
In the late 1930s, the skies across Europe darkened as the world prepared for war. Beyond the efforts to save civilians in…
Portraits intend to be reflections of their subjects’ character, placing William Orpen’s …
The end of WWI left the world in a tense political situation that soon generated new ambitions and rivalries. In Europe, the feelings of humiliation, together with political and economic instability…
Born in the late nineteenth century, Modernism sought to challenge conventional institutions of its time. The late nineteenth century saw a shifting European political structure, with the birth of…
Although she is widely seen as one of art history’s most important sculptors, many of Katarzyna Kobro’s (1898-1951) works are no longer extant. This is especially true of her earliest artworks. The…
The Parthenon Marbles and Greece’s quest for their restitution is perhaps one of the most famous instances of such a thing, with the marbles now becoming a part of two different and diametrically…
A collection of drawings by Jewish Argentinian-American artist Mauricio Lasansky took the world by storm after their debut at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1967, followed by a tour of North America.…
