Carlos Pinheiro The secrets of Girl with a Pearl Earring BBC CultureA new research project at the Mauritshuis in The Hague hopes to unlock some of the mysteries that surround Vermeer’s masterpiece. Watch the video to find out more. Very little is known about the 17th Dutch...
Carlos Pinheiro Can art change the world? BBC Culture - Annie Godfrey LarmonCan obstruction, or outright destruction, be as powerful as the act of creation? Annie Godfrey Larmon takes a look. Popular history has it that the word sabotage, from the French sabot, or wooden shoe,...
Carlos Pinheiro Why The Thinker should be called The Mourner BBC Culture - Alastair SookeGrief is ubiquitous in art – one curator even has suggested The Thinker should be called The Mourner. Alastair Sooke takes a look at its history. She looks like she is sleeping, her beautiful features...
Carlos Pinheiro Ribera: Was this the vision of a sadist? BBC Culture - Kelly GrovierAccording to some, Jusepe de Ribera enjoyed painting torture. A new exhibition seeks to challenge that view of the 17th-Century artist, writes Kelly Grovier. No artist has ever managed to put the pain...
Carlos Pinheiro Bruegel’s Two Monkeys: One of art’s most enduring puzzles? BBC Culture - Kelly GrovierPieter Bruegel the Elder transformed observations of daily existence into complex visual parables. As a new exhibition of his work opens in Vienna, Kelly Grovier explores the elusive symbolism of one the...
