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Hilma af Klint’s Altarpiece: The stair to the sun.
She drew a spiral temple for the island where Tycho Brahe mapped the sky without a telescope. It begins in a snail and ends at the sun.
Oct 20
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What is art: the century you drink without knowing
One painting can pour a whole century into you, and the person who made it had no idea what was in the glass.
Oct 13
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Piero della Francesca: the painter who measured everything.
He wrote the first book in Europe on where to stand in front of a painting. At the end a child led him through the town by the hand.
Oct 6
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September 2026
Pontormo's Deposition: The half they took down.
A chapel in Florence, a painting with no cross, and a ceiling no one remembers demolishing.
Sep 29
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it's art
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The whole in the fragment
Dalí's holograms, a Nobel physicist, and how we're all kept.
Sep 22
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Tommaso Firaux
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Malevich's Black Square: The painting with nothing in it.
He hung it where the icon goes. The priest who explained why was shot in 1937.
Sep 15
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Munch's Sun: The army he could not see.
He painted the most famous scream in art at sundown. Twenty years later, he painted the same sun coming back.
Sep 8
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The Diary of Schiele: The life he could only paint
A diary Schiele never kept: the mirror he broke, the woman he lost, the family he painted before it existed.
Sep 1
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Floris van Doorn
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[Start here] What is it's art?
An introduction, and one painting to try.
Sep 1
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August 2026
Klimt’s Sketches: The self-portrait he said he never made.
Klimt said he never made a self-portrait. He made four thousand.
Aug 25
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The Constellations by Miró: The ladder that leads out of hell.
A constellation is not in the sky; we draw it there. Miró drew twenty-three, in hiding, while the war disproved every other order.
Aug 18
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Nighthawks by Hopper: The light that offers shelter.
Everyone calls it the loneliest painting in America. Look instead at whoever keeps the light on.
Aug 11
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