Art + Design x Life

Schneider painted like someone smuggling voltage. He wrapped classical allegory around homoerotic fire, camouflaging danger in toga folds and divine...

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden reimagined classical antiquity through the sun-drenched bodies of Sicilian youth. Exiled by tuberculosis to Taormina, he...

From the Renaissance rediscovery of classical ideals, to the effusive creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and the turbulent activism of...

Beneath the veils of Orientalist fascination, a deeper current pulses—homoerotic tensions intertwined with power, conquest & longing. Bridges to how...

Looking at William Etty’s nudes—once so scandalous they could raise the temperature of an entire Victorian drawing room—you can't help...

In the uneasy afterglow of one war and the encroaching shadow of another, Paris refused to dull. It shimmered—defiantly, deliriously—as...

In the hush of a private studio, where light pooled like secrets and the door clicked shut against the world,...

With all their flaws and fervor, the Futurist dared to say “Let’s go!” to the unknown. Unleashing a wave of...