Art + Design x Life

Through his short & shining career, Moriz Jung emerged as a messenger of wit, craftsman of applied modernism, chronicler of the comedic...

Few figures in Western art have fused profound technical daring with such raw emotional honesty. A tension that shaped Vincent van...

Toyohara Kunichika's bold yakusha-e (Kabuki actor prints) documented the theatrical fervor of his time and helped shape the public personas of...

William Forsell Kirby was a pioneering British entomologist whose works in Victorian entomology had a significant impact on the field....

Long before the word “collage” entered our vocabulary, distant civilizations already toyed with the concept of assembling fragments into coherent...

Robert John Thornton's an impassioned dreamer and his “Temple of Flora” stands eternal. More than a straightforward botanical survey, it's...

In the measured cadence of his woodcuts and deliberate vibrancy of his paintings, Reijer Stolk's art is an unbroken thread...

A luminous presence on the horizon of art history, Ogata Gekko bridged old Edo—with its lively entertainment districts and lantern-lit...