Smithsonian magazine

This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers? (September 29, 2025)

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women’s Stories in Their Own Words (October 24, 2024)

Why Were So Many Renaissance Portraits Multisided? (April 5, 2024)

What the Color Purple Means to Oprah Winfrey (December 13, 2023)

Why Art Was Such a Powerful Tool for England’s Tudor Monarchs (October 11, 2022)

Inside Hieronymus Bosch’s Surreal Visions of Heaven and Hell (May 2, 2022)

Florence’s Medici Family Used Portraits as Propaganda (June 23, 2021)

The Enduring Nostalgia of American Girl Dolls (June 3, 2021)

From Books Bound in Human Skin to Occult Texts, These Are Literature’s Most Macabre, Surprising and Curious Creations (April 6, 2021)

The Women Writers Who Shaped 20th-Century American Literature (September 23, 2020)

The Best Board Games of the Ancient World (February 6, 2020)

The Whimsical, Chameleon-like Figure Behind the Myth of Sylvia Plath (June 30, 2017)

The Genre-Bending, Death-Defying Triumph of Charlotte Salomon’s Art (November 15, 2019)

This Replica of a Tlingit Killer Whale Hat Is Spurring Dialogue About Digitization (September 11, 2017)

Home Is Where the Corpse Is––At Least In These Dollhouse Crime Scenes (October 16, 2017)

All Hail the Renaissance of Artemisia Gentileschi (December 21, 2018)

From Obscurity, Hilma af Klint Is Finally Being Recognized as a Pioneer of Abstract Art (October 15, 2018)

‘Baroque’s Leading Lady,’ Artist Michaelina Waters, Finally Gets Retrospective (August 17, 2018)

Did This Couple Steal a $160 Million de Kooning? (August 10, 2018)

Take an Exclusive Sneak Peek Inside the Renovated Freer Gallery, Reopening in October (July 31, 2017)

New Video Game Parodies What it Means to Be an Art World Star (July 26, 2017)

Washington city paper

Infinite Space (August 1, 2019)

The Saint

Damien Hirst: the art of decadence and death (April 20, 2017)

Marina Abramovic and the legacies of controversial artists (October 6, 2016)