By Seoyeon “Claudia” Kim ‘28 • Dec 10, 2025 The most iconic album cover is no image or painting. It's a pixelated painting with a golden outline and a scarlet red background, a portrait so obscene it was banned before most listeners even heard a note. George Condo’s artwork for “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” announced the outward rebellion, even before Kanye West ever opened his mouth: a satire towards fame and success, embellished with extravagance and spectacle. Condo’

Emily Cho ‘27 • Dec 6, 2025 Title: ‘Annunciation’ Artist: Leonardo da Vinci Year: 1472-1475 Medium: Oil and tempera on panel Size: 98cm x 217cm Location: Uffizi, Florence, Italy Angel Gabriel is kneeling down to Mary in two strikingly contrasting scenes. In Leonardo da Vinci’s 1472 Renaissance¹ painting, the encounter unfolds in a bright, serene landscape with lush, soft grass and fresh, tall, green trees, depicting her announcement that she will bear Jesus(Art Post Blog,

By Yunah (“Yujin”) Joe ‘26 • Dec 5, 2025 Yayoi Kusama Many people look at Yayoi Kusama’s work and think they’re seeing nothing more than bright colors arranged for a quick photo. But beneath the surface of those dots and mirrors lies a world that has shaped entire museum landscapes and quietly threaded itself into the minds of teenagers searching for something that feels both uncanny and honest. As one of Japan’s most recognizable contemporary artists, Kusama has rewritten w

By Emily Cho 27'  • Nov 11, 2025 When Claude Monet painted Impression, Sunrise  in 1872, critics accused him of being careless—his brushstrokes too loose, his forms too vague. Yet that very painting gave birth to Impressionism , a movement that transformed how we see light and emotion on canvas. Nearly a century earlier, another artist had already captured the drama of light in a very different way: J.M.W. Turner, whose Fishermen at Sea  (1796) marked the beginning of his ris

By Janice Yang ’26  • Nov 11, 2025 The Death of Marat, © Wikipedia — public domain image The Death of Marat is a famous depiction of a crime scene from the past 250 years, painted in 1793 by Jacques-Louis David. This work, created with oil on canvas, is currently housed in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. This painting commemorates the death of Jacques-Louis David’s close friend, Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a politician and journalist who belonged to the

By Seoyeon Claudia Kim '28  • Nov 10, 2025 Cover of   Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury’s timeless warning against censorship and conformity. Introduction Fahrenheit 451, a novel written by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a dystopian society where books are banned by the government. In this society, firefighters are figures that burn books and arrest those who possess books; they are not the ordinary firefighters who put out fires. The protagonist, Guy Montag is a firefighter, who b