Curator Stories
One curator-told art history story a week, drawn from the world's museums and named art historians.
The Lineage of the White BoxVol. 13 · Bauhaus, Ulm, Braun, Apple — one design principle that crossed a century
Who Is Reflected in the Mirror?Vol. 12 · Diego Velázquez — the three layers of gaze inside 'Las Meninas'
The Light a Murderer PaintedVol. 11 · Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio — the years as a fugitive that completed three paintings
The Wave, the Mountain, and the Old Man Who Painted Until NinetyVol. 10 · Katsushika Hokusai — the moments captured in 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji'
A Portrait of Broken Things — Frida KahloVol. 9 · Three self-portraits painted with a broken body as evidence
The Man Who Rationed Light — Rembrandt van RijnVol. 8 · Guardsmen cut from a daylight scene, a thief's forearm, a face that survived bankruptcy — three rooms Rembrandt left behind
Between Light and Shadow — Leonardo da Vinci, a Man on the ThresholdVol. 7 · At the border of science and art, he erased the line and left only smoke
The Painter of Light and Silence — Johannes VermeerVol. 6 · Three hundred years ago, a man in Delft painted a silence we still haven't fully read
The Man Who Chased LightVol. 5 · What Monet spent his life chasing was not objects, but the light passing over themThe Masterpiece That Came Out of an AtticVol. 4 · How to recover a lost painting — the people who brought Caravaggio back
The Face Worth Its Weight in GoldVol. 3 · Klimt's gold, Nazi looting, and the auction-house record
A Masterpiece Born on the Edge of the MindVol. 2 · Van Gogh and Munch, and the worlds they glimpsed at the edge of the mindThe People Who Stole a PaintingVol. 1 · The theft that shook the art worldMore artists and museums from these stories: Browse the Museum Index →
Last updated 2026-07-17
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