Non-Finito: The Art of Incompleteness

Big news: MuseMuse just got nominated for a Webby Award for Best Art & Culture App—aka the Oscars of the Internet. Among 13,000 entries, we made it into the top 12%.

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But here’s the thing: we need your vote. Webby winners are decided by a very official jury of… the internet. That’s you. Your friends. Your barista. Every vote counts.

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🗳️ Vote here → vote.webbyawards.com

Deadline to vote: April 18th.

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In the meantime, we’ll keep doing what we do best: helping you explore the world through art.

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So thank you art lovers! And thank you to everyone who’s ever wanted more from a museum visit and thought, “There has to be a better way.” There is. It’s called MuseMuse. And apparently, it’s Webby-worthy!

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Cheers - MuseMuse

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There’s no nice way to put it: in medieval art, babies were pretty damn ugly. 

But why?

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It’s not because artists hadn’t worked out how to paint them properly – in fact, this was a deliberate stylistic choice… In medieval artwork, one baby popped up a whole lot more than the others: Jesus Christ.

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There was a popular notion that Jesus was born “perfectly formed” and remained “unchanged” over time; this led to artists depicting him as a sort of weird little old man – and influenced portrayals of other babies too!

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This all changed with the dawn of the Renaissance, and a new emphasis on realism in art.

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Plus, as artists began to embrace non-religious subjects, wealthy patrons could commission portraits of their own families – and they didn’t want their own children looking like little old men!

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So, ugly babies were out and cute babies were in. Way less disturbing, but nowhere near as fun…