Archive
Everything on the site, in one list
Twenty-seven entries across five sections. The section pages carry the same material with pictures and summaries.
Works
- Olympia, and the Fortnight Paris Spent Shouting at a Cat
- What Titian's Venus Is Actually Looking At
- Rembrandt Gave Bathsheba a Real Letter
- Ingres Gave Her Three Extra Vertebrae and Was Unapologetic
- Cézanne Painted Bathers for Thirty Years Without a Model in the Room
- Freud, Nine Months of Four-Hour Sittings
- The Picture That Broke the Room It Was Shown In
Academies
Refusals
- Modigliani's Only Solo Show, Closed on the Day It Opened
- Two Years in the Studio, a Fortnight of Shouting, and the Whole Argument Was Over
- The Royal Academy Opens the Life Class to Women — with Conditions
- Suzanne Valadon Painted the Male Nude When Nobody Had Asked Her To
- Artemisia Gentileschi Painted the Beheading Twice, and the Second Was Worse
Painters Now
- Jenny Saville Paints at a Size That Makes the Subject Impossible to Look Away From
- Kerry James Marshall Made the Figure Black Because the Tradition Had Not
- Alice Neel Painted People Who Did Not Come Out Looking Good
- Philip Pearlstein Cropped the Head and the Problem Got Easier
- Joan Semmel Painted the Body from Inside It
Materials
- Lead White: Why the Best Ground Is Also the Most Dangerous
- Claessens and the Linen That Comes Off the Same Belgian Looms It Always Did
- The Kolinsky Sable and the Import Ban That Changed What Painters Could Buy
- Four Colours Are Enough If They Are Zorn's Four
- Munsell Gave Flesh a Number, and Some Painters Found That Useful