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Art Pot
Mar 31, 20214 min read
In Conversation with... Sofiya
Written by: Emilia and Lucia This article introduces the embroidery work of Sofiya, a textile artist, creator and graphic designer - a...
Art Pot
Mar 29, 20213 min read
Museum Etiquette: is it time to break the rules?
Gallery spaces and museums pose as alien landscapes within our contemporary world. Their stillness and relative quiet differentiate them...
Haomin Li
Mar 24, 20216 min read
From Patronage to Open Market: System Changes, Art Shifts
In this week’s Art Market Column, I would like to adopt a social art historical viewpoint to briefly discuss the modern history of the...
Art Pot
Mar 20, 20214 min read
Pessimism and Expectation Behind the Sensual Pleasure – Death Paintings by Gustav Klimt
Klimt is the master of depicting women and love. He portrays women with tender bodies and charming faces, illustrates the passionate...
Art Pot
Mar 17, 20213 min read
Idiosyncratic Exhibition - in conversation
The Art Pot Founders, Lucia and Emilia, had the chance to speak with artists, Kate, Megan and Lorraine about their upcoming online...
Art Pot
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Fungidelic Crochet
I had the pleasure in talking to Pippa (@pippa_music_) about her lockdown pastime-turned-business! Pippa is a third-year Vocal Studies...
Art Pot
Mar 8, 20218 min read
Portrait of Arlette Boucard (1928), Tamara de Lempicka’s modern day Venus of Urbino
A feminist reading of Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait of Arlette Boucard (1928), framing it though its comparison with Titian’s Venus of...
Haomin Li
Mar 3, 20216 min read
[Auction Review] Masters Week: Glamour or Alarm?
Written by: Haomin Li Masters Week is more or a less a week of blockbuster auctions at Sotheby’s New York that is dedicated entirely to...
Art Pot
Feb 16, 20214 min read
Unlocking Art History in Lockdown
Written by: Milo Hill By now it should come as no surprise that access to viewing art in person has been severely limited as of the last...
Art Pot
Feb 10, 20217 min read
‘Art Market Economics’, an Online Course Offered by Christie’s Education
Time to get a bit more mathy! This is what I was thinking after the end of my second and final sub-honors year at St Andrews in summer...
Art Pot
Feb 8, 20216 min read
Situating Helene Funke’s Dancers (1907-08) within the Canonical Trajectory of Modern Art
Helene Funke (b. Chemnitz, 1896 – 1957) is regarded as one of the most radically avant-garde painters of Vienna (1), and is among the...
Art Pot
Feb 2, 20217 min read
My Brief, Exclusive, Very Unofficial Museum Tour of Mexico City
It’s been a while since I visited an art museum. This is something I have very deeply missed for the past year in my life- even having had..
Art Pot
Jan 27, 20213 min read
Text, Image and Power
Written by: Catherine Barrie Text gives authority to what we see, perhaps this is why Les Académie des Beaux-Arts declared ‘Historical’...
Art Pot
Jan 20, 20216 min read
‘Art and its Markets’, a Four-Week Programme Offered by Sotheby’s Institute of Art
People may wonder: why art market and why the interest in it? Whenever there is a discussion of the art market, a great many people tend...
Art Pot
Jan 14, 20214 min read
Defenestration: The Art of Chucking Folk Out Windows
“A creative act of rebellion that gained cultural significance among Medieval and Early Modern Bohemians.” - Me, 2020.
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