Mon musée d’art préféré en absolue est probablement le musée d’Orsay à Paris, sur la rive gauche de la Seine. Il est installé dans l’ancienne gare d’Orsay, une gare de style Beaux-Arts construite entre 1898 et 1900. Le musée abrite principalement de l’art français datant de 1848 à 1914, notamment des peintures, des sculptures, des meubles et des photographies. Il abrite la plus grande collection … Continue reading Musée d’Orsay 🖼🗿🇫🇷
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection is one of the most encyclopaedic in North America, spanning over 227,000 works across American, European, and Asian art. From Van Gogh’s luminous Sunflowers (1889) and Thomas Eakins’s monumental Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross to Marcel Duchamp’s radical Nude Descending a Staircase, the collection rewards visitors at every turn. Celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2026, the museum offers a sweeping panorama of art history  — and remains an unmissable destination for anyone passionate about the visual arts. Read on for a guided tour of its essential masterworks. Continue reading Philadelphia Museum of Art 🖌🖼🇺🇸
Metropolitan Gallery of Bari The Metropolitan Gallery of Bari was founded in 1928 and was originally hosted at the local Palace of Government. It was later moved to the Palace of the Province, on the seafront, where it currently stands. The Gallery was named after the famous Apulian painter of the XVIII century, Corrado Giaquinto, and it showcases masterpieces by Apulian artists and artpieces linked … Continue reading Metropolitan Gallery of Bari 🖌🖼👢
🇬🇧 Evoë 3 – abstract oil painting on canvas by Bridget Riley, 2003, Tate Modern, London. This large horizontal painting, on two adjointing canvases, is created with irregular curved shapes using four solid and contrasting colours: green, blue, pink and white. This is a characteristic aspect of optical art. Like other of her compositions, for example Nataraja, Evoë 3 is structured on a diagonal grid moving from … Continue reading Evoë 3, by Riley 🎨🔶🔷
The National Gallery in London easily holds one of the best collections in the world of paintings of all times, accessible to everybody free of charge seven days a week. The collection was started at the beginning of the 19th century thanks to some large bequests of paintings donated to the country on the condition a suitable accommodation was provided for the exhibition and the conservation … Continue reading Museums I like 🏛🖼🗿
Tate Britain Founded and opened in 1897 by Sir Henry Tate, this is now the oldest and largest art gallery of the Tate network of galleries in England and is devoted to British works of art from Tudor times to the beginning of the XIX century. The modern and contemporary collections of the gallery have now been moved to Tate Modern, in a refurbished location … Continue reading Tate Britain 🖌🖼🇬🇧
🇬🇧Nataraja – oil painting on canvas by Bridget Riley, 1993, Tate Modern, London. Inspired by a trip to India and the liveliness of local folk art. The variety, balance ,and complexity of colours are amazing, with up to 20 shades of one colour across the canvas. Choose the colours you like best! The title refers to the Hindu god Shiva, as Lord of the Dance, … Continue reading Nataraja, by Riley 🎨🔶🔷
Easily one of the best collections in the world of paintings of all times, accessible to everybody free of charge seven days a week. The collection of the National Gallery in London was started at the beginning of the 19th century thanks to some large bequests of paintings donated to the country on the condition a suitable accommodation was provided for the exhibition and the … Continue reading National Gallery, London 🏛🖼👨🏼🎨
