Taylor Swift Is Turning German Teens Into Art Scholars

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An art museum in Wiesbaden, Germany, has been seeing more visitors than usual in recent weeks, especially from Taylor Swift fans who believe the singer's latest song was inspired not only by William Shakespeare but also by a painting hanging in the museum.

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Hundreds of visitors, fans of singer Taylor Swift, came to Wiesbaden’s Hessische Landesmuseum over the weekend to admire Friedrich Heyser’s art nouveau painting depicting Ofelia, Hamlet’s beloved in William Shakespeare’s homonymous work. This painting is very similar to Taylor Swift’s initial video clip scene, “The Fate of Ophelia”, his latest and successful musical production. Taylor Swift’s fans have taken pictures of the painting and armed wi…

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Since the beginning of the month, we cannot escape the new Taylor Swift song "The fate of Ophelie". The first single of Swift's latest album, La vie d'une showgirl, derives its title from Shakespeare Hamlet and an additional inspiration from works of art related to it. At the beginning of the video of "Le [...]

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Taylor Swift has made an Art Nouveau painting from Wiesbaden famous – and in the process, given art history an update. What her video "The Fate of Ophelia" reveals about the canon, images of women, and museum education