Peter Van Wijnaerde | Substack

Branding, beauty and beheadings

What a podcast revealed about everything that started here

Mar 28 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The end of the world, again

On our obsession with the end and how to get your life back from it

Mar 21 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The art of being undeniable

How women artists were written out of art history.

Mar 7 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The ancient punishments in our modern lives

What Sisyphus, Cassandra and Prometheus reveal about the loops we still live in

Feb 28 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Culture first, code second.

The 1890s blueprint for a European digital secession

Feb 14 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Recent posts

When naked was negotiable

A history of nakedness, messy rules, and who gets to decide

Jan 31 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The dangerous myth of progress

On desire as the only human constant in art and culture

Jan 17 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Sympathy for the devil

How he kept evolving to keep society engaged

Jan 3 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The power of keeping it real

From Courbet to Burger King, truth as strategy

Dec 21, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Frank the last pitchman

a preview of an agentic future and the next Agency Life magazine

Dec 13, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The myth that mirrors us

How every age remakes Icarus and calls it truth

Nov 15, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Botticelli's bloody bridal gift

A Florentine nightmare in four parts

Oct 31, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Peace isn't quiet or calm

On how a blank wall taught Berlin the art of argument.

Oct 25, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The first creative war

How the renaissance invented the AI debate

Oct 18, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

When a gasp broke the checklist

The Cold War missions that became lessons on finding meaning

Oct 4, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

The art of paying it forward

A journey to find the Three Graces in the modern world.

Sep 20, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

Remember the dolls

Queer history told through laws, scandals and portraits.

Sep 7, 2025 • Peter Van Wijnaerde

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