Art + Design x Life
Secret Dog, Private Dock
Classical grandeur meets surreal introspection. Transporting you to a reimagined realm where Hercules waits for a ride in divine repose....
Artists Have Been Entrepreneurs All Along
Beyond the clichés—one group wreathed in paint splatters, the other in boardroom suits—lurks a stirring reality: artists and entrepreneurs both...
Masters & Visionaries: LGBTQ Art Through History
From the Renaissance rediscovery of classical ideals, to the effusive creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and the turbulent activism of...
Flower Codes: Symbols of LGBTQ+ Floriography
Floriography in LGBTQ+ history is a living, breathing dictionary where each bloom, color, and storyline weaves centuries of courage and...
Veiled Gaze: Homoerotic Desire in Orientalist Art
Beneath the veils of Orientalist fascination, a deeper current pulses—homoerotic tensions intertwined with power, conquest & longing. Bridges to how...
Naked Ambition: William Etty’s Daring Nudes
Looking at William Etty’s nudes—once so scandalous they could raise the temperature of an entire Victorian drawing room—you can't help...
George Barbier: Fashioning the Roaring Twenties
In the uneasy afterglow of one war and the encroaching shadow of another, Paris refused to dull. It shimmered—defiantly, deliriously—as...
Taboo Strokes: John Singer Sargent’s Secret Male Nudes
In the hush of a private studio, where light pooled like secrets and the door clicked shut against the world,...
