The painter Anna Ancher spent nearly her entire life in the small fishing village of Skagen, at the northernmost tip of Denmark, and almost all of her most…
The 1920s announced itself in New York as a vertical theatre of glass, neon, and perpetual motion. Few artists caught that pulse as vividly as Florine…
Romaine Brooks painted women who seemed to occupy a space beyond the decorative expectations of their time. Her sitters wear tailored jackets, riding clothes,…
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is often remembered through its luminous women: red-haired figures reclining beside rivers, pale faces framed by roses, and…
Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms turn looking into an encounter with scale, repetition and uncertainty. Inside mirrored chambers filled with lights, water, dots…
Abstract Expressionism is often presented as a story of heroic male artists, large canvases and New York’s post-war rise as an international art centre. That…
Joan Mitchell made paintings that seem to exceed the limits of the wall. Across broad fields of colour, her brushwork gathers speed, breaks apart, and returns…
The Venus of Willendorf is one of the most recognisable prehistoric objects in the history of art. Carved from oolitic limestone around 29,000 to 25,000 BCE,…
Alma Thomas’s paintings invite a different kind of attention. Their small, repeated marks gather into radiant fields of colour, suggesting flowers, galaxies,…
Few sculptural figures of the twentieth century have communicated joy as directly as the Nanas of Niki de Saint Phalle. First appearing in the early 1960s,…
