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Portraits and Portrayals: Using Wealth as Power to Control What Art Historicises
Art is a powerful force. Whether you love it, hate it or are entirely indifferent, art is a reflection of who we are. Such a reflection...
Bryleigh Pierce
13 min read


Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and 1970s Feminist Art
The 1970s was a tumultuous decade wherein the Vietnam War came to an end, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets as 50...
Bryleigh Pierce
35 min read


Elsa's Fountain?: Is Marcel Duchamp the False Prophet of Conceptual Art?
With the abundance of research proving Duchamp didn't create Fountain (1917), why does the true artist continue to be denied authorship?
Bryleigh Pierce
28 min read


Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Intentional Misattribution of Her Work For Being Too Dada
Is it possible to be too Dada? To be too much the epitome of an art movement or to challenge its belief structure, so much so that the...
Bryleigh Pierce
13 min read


Judith Leyster and Art Historians Who Intentionally Misattribute Women's Artworks To Men Because They Believe Women Are Incapable of Creating Anything Great and Want To Make More Money
When you hear the term 'Dutch Golden Age’ you likely think of the many great paintings that have been used as the cornerstones of the...
Bryleigh Pierce
8 min read


The Statue of Three Lies
The ‘Statue of Three Lies’, as it is known, is possibly the most accurate representation of the ways in which memorial monuments complica...
Bryleigh Pierce
7 min read


Appreciating Great Art and Acknowledging the Artists Problematic Behaviour Are Not Mutually Exclusive
Art history is full of prodigies and genius’ and while their achievements may have been great and their art may have been revolutionary,...
Bryleigh Pierce
7 min read


Benin and Ethiopian Looted Artefacts in the British Museum
Organisations like the Monuments Men were tasked with finding and returning artworks and artefacts stolen by invading Nazi forces during...
Bryleigh Pierce
4 min read


Violence: Peripheral Idiosyncrasy or the Axis of Interpretation
It is no secret that artists find inspiration in the trials and tribulations of their lives, and while this is true throughout history, contemporary artists, for better or worse, undertake the tiresome task of explaining their work themselves whereas such a task must be done for historical artists by intellectuals who combine chronological research with their analysis of artworks in an effort to provide a complete exegesis. It is not uncommon to see similar experiences surrou
Bryleigh Pierce
9 min read


Looted Cultural Heritage or Collateral Damage?: Depends on Who You Ask
Tangible cultural heritage is crucial to knowledge and belief systems for both individuals and wider societies or nations. For this reason, it is often among the first to be targeted during times of conflict by aggressors who aim to loot objects for their monetary value, in which case they are either divvied up among soldiers as payment or later sold in the hopes of recovering some of their conflict-related expenses. More common, however, is that the aggressors target such ob
Bryleigh Pierce
10 min read
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