Art Exhibitions and Reviews

The Strain of Progress: Design in the Wake of the Industrial Boom The Industrial Revolution unlocked mass production, and with it, a flood of new materials, machines, and markets. But it didn’t bring clarity. Instead, design philosophies splintered. Function surged

Impressionism didn’t start in royal salons or elite studios—it sparked in the streets, cafés, and countryside of 19th-century France. Roughly emerging in the 1870s, the movement was a rebel yell against the rigid realism favored by academic art institutions. At

Modernism and Postmodernism aren’t just art history buzzwords—they’re two very different ways of seeing the world, and they’ve left permanent marks on the culture we live in today. Modernism came first, rising in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Abstract Expressionism’s Titans: Redefining American Art In the mid-20th century, a group of pioneering artists transformed the American art landscape, making New York City the new global art capital. Their innovations in form, emotion, and technique marked the rise of

After World War I, the world was exhausted. The old systems—political, philosophical, social—felt broken. Millions dead, empires fallen, and yet no satisfying reason why. In that hollow aftermath, artists and thinkers weren’t just disillusioned; they were done playing by old