Culture

Inside the unique creative space where ‘outsider’ artists find their form

14 minutes

Why European artists shifted their focus from power to peasants in the 16th century

5 minutes

Negative capability

When it comes to our complicated, undecipherable feelings, art prompts a self-understanding far beyond the wellness industry

Aparna Chivukula

Earthly delights

Noticing first one then many parrots, peacocks, owls and more birds in Old Master paintings taught me to truly see the world

Leanne Ogasawara

From a pencil sketch to cherubs dancing in stone – recreating a Donatello work

7 minutes

All those naked Greeks…

Men in ancient Greek art exercise, fight battles, pursue lovers and mourn lost friends, all without their pants on. Why?

Sarah Murray

What makes John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ so enduringly powerful?

10 minutes

How a Noh mask-maker summons a lifelike face from a single block of wood

16 minutes

The art of rules

Conceptual art often confounds. The key is to understand the rules of the artwork and the aesthetic experiences they yield

Sherri Irvin

David Goldblatt captured the contradictions of apartheid in stark black and white

15 minutes

Tracing Goya’s ‘dark’ journey from Spanish court painter to macabre visionary

51 minutes

Milk, pity and power

Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?

Margie Orford

The key to a vampire’s immortality? Meeting the anxieties of the moment

15 minutes

The female Abstract Expressionists of New York shook the world of art

15 minutes

At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light

6 minutes

Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it

12 minutes

The revolutionary artist who propelled the Black Panther movement with imagery

8 minutes

Can art in a swanky restaurant ever be transcendent? On Rothko’s Seagram Murals

15 minutes

What does an AI make of what it sees in a contemporary art museum?

15 minutes

‘Long Live Degenerate Art’ – how a Surrealist group in Cairo defied repression in 1938

4 minutes