Ben Samuel
Egon Schiele's death bed sketches of his wife Edith & Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...
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Ben Samuel
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
When Weegee met Alfred Stieglitz
Photographer Weegee describes his haunting meeting with an 81 year old Alfred Stieglitz. From his book Naked City.
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Ben Samuel
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Rembrandt's "dirty little secrets"
Etchings made by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) dubbed by some as his "Dirty Little Secrets"
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Ben Samuel
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
Jean Genet (1910 - 1986) interview
Jean Genet asks a BBC film crew why they don't rebel.
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Ben Samuel
- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min
Albert Pinkham Ryder - art and decay
The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.
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Ben Samuel
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
William Blake's Visionary heads
Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.
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Ben Samuel
- Apr 28, 2022
- 10 min
Bruno Schulz "trying to occur"
The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz
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Ben Samuel
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings (Pinturas negras)
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
Wax anatomical models by Clemente Susini
Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
"Advertisements" by J.G Ballard
"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Experimental text collages by JG Ballard
Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
The lifework of James Hampton a janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia
Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia led her to create these paintings.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Artwork by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was a self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who created thousands of paintings...
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Imaginary Prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Le Carceri d'Invenzione)
An influential series of prints started in 1745. 16 imaginary subterranean prisons with winding stairs strange architecture.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Walking cities - collages by Ron Herron
In the 1960s architect Ron Herron (1930 - 1994) designed collages of his concept of Walking Cities.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Eadweard Muybridge photography
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe obsessively
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Harry Clarke's stained glass windows
Incredibly beautiful stained glass windows by Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Infernal Dictionary (1818) Jacques Collin de Plancy
Infernal Dictionary (1818) by Jacques Collin de Plancy is a book of demonology it describes demons and organises them into hierarchies.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Nudes by Anne Brigman
Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Death In The Sickroom By Edvard Munch
“Illness, madness and death were the black angels that watched over my cradle and have since followed me through life,”
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Old Horse'
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) died of a heart-attack 7th July. Shortly before his death he looked back on his life and drew this cartoon
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
A compendium of demons and magic (Around 1775)
A compendium of demons and magic with the enticing warning "Do not touch me" inscribed on the title page.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Only known film footage of Claude Monet
The only known film footage of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) at work painting lilies in his garden at Giverny in (1914
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir
Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir painting at home (1915) aged 74.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
The Diary Frida Kahlo
Images from The Diary of Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) Frida Kahlo “Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process”
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Max Ernst - The Entire City
The Entire City by Max Ernst (1891–1976) a series of around 12 paintings on the same theme.
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Ben Samuel
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Frida kahlo Plaster Corsets
At the age of 18 Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) sustained horrific injuries when she was involved in a bus collision in Mexico City.
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