Artwork of the Month: Keane’s Big Eyes
When the story is a part of the art
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Criteria for Evaluating Art
You’ve probably stood in front of an artwork more than once and thought, “Even my grandmother could paint better than that,” then clutched your head after seeing its four-digit price tag.
Art History for Intellectuals: Baroque
On the Church's most effective persuasion machine – and the authorship question that four hundred years of connoisseurship still hasn't closed
Artwork of the Month: The Opening of the Fifth Seal, El Greco
How a 17th-Century Apocalypse Became the Blueprint for Cubism
Basel's Metamodern Moment
What the Fair Understood That the Biennale Forgot
Renaissance Art and Mannerism
Art History for Intellectuals
Artwork of the Month: The Arnolfini Portrait
Six centuries of art historians have stood in front of The Arnolfini Portrait and disagreed about what, precisely, is happening in it.
Time Travels: Jan van Eyck on Portraiture, Power, and the Face as Document
Jan van Eyck was court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and the most technically accomplished painter of the 15th century.
Who Owns the Ancient World?
Repatriation Is Not a Museum Debate. It Is a Power Debate.
Prehistoric Art · Ancient Art · Medieval Art
Prehistoric Art · Ancient Art · Medieval Art
Artwork of the month: The Woman They Called Venus
On the Venus of Willendorf, a 30,000-year-old figurine, and the politics of naming the world's oldest art
50 Flags, 0 Diplomats: The Venice Biennale Is the Most Honest Geopolitics in the World
The 61st Venice Biennale opened on 9 May.
Time Travels: She Had the Perfect Face – and She Knew It
An imaginary conversation with Nefertiti on beauty, branding, and the business of a face that never ages.
Before We Begin: What Art History Gets Wrong Before It Starts
On calendars, canons, authorship, craft, and the strange alchemy of turning a sacred object into a museum piece
He Didn’t Copy Masterpieces. He Invented New Ones.
Beltracchi fooled the entire art world. For 40 years, his paintings hung in the world’s best museums. The market believed the story.
Time Travels: Andy Warhol on Influencer Economics
Welcome to Ornela’s Time Travels, where I talk to dead artists, writers, collectors, and occasionally chaotic personalities about power, patterns, and why we keep making the same mistakes with better technology.
Artwork of the Month: Jeff Koons and the Impossible Label
On the line between Postmodernism, Contemporary Art, and Metamodernism
When the Label Matters: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Art of Our Time
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a dinner table when someone uses the words “contemporary” and “modern” interchangeably.
Unraveling One of the Biggest Art Fraud Stories: The Morrisseau Case
Art detective from archives
Time Travels: Frida Kahlo on Identity as Performance
Welcome to Ornela’s Time Travels, where I talk to dead artists, writers, collectors, and occasionally chaotic personalities about power, patterns, and why we keep making the same mistakes with better technology.
ART MARKET ANALYSIS: The 2026 Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report
The $59.6 Billion Recovery Nobody Should Celebrate Too Quickly