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We remember learning in one of our Art History classes that museum studies and exhibition design really only became disciplines in their own rights after the first department stores opened in Paris and Berlin, and people started thinking about the ways objects are displayed in more sophisticated terms. Maybe this is why we’re so disappointed [...]

557 years ago today, in the picturesque Tuscan hilltop town of Vinci, the illegitimate child of a wealthy notary and a lowly peasant was born. Named Leonardo after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle of the same name for his precocious abilities as a swordsman, Leonardo da Vinci soon left Vinci and its ninja academy and [...]

Sundays are something of a slow day around the Listicles office, which is why we’ve begun taking the opportunity found in that lull to present some of the interesting but irrelevant to everything listicles we’ve had waiting in our archives for a little while.
This week we seek to provide satisfaction for both literal and aesthetic [...]

Everybody loves Gustave Klimt, the Austrian figurehead of the Art Nouveau movement who sported a funny bathrobe and was fond of ostentatious fabrics and mythological subjects. They love him so much that during crazy pre-recession times four paintings of his had set the record for most expensive auctioned artworks ($192 million for four canvases). Folks [...]