6 hours ago by Jess Manuel Mena Garza

In the world of American art and photography, there is one center. New York. Here, careers are made or destroyed. This metropolis touts their power. What happens in New York according to sycophants reverberates worldwide. Artists must submit to the Big Filter. Chicanas and Chicanos are not a concern ...

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15 hours ago by Kelsey Keith

Julius Shulman, who died this summer at age 98, was the photographer who put California architecture of the 1950s and '60s on the cultural map. No surprise, then, that Shulman's own home was a rough gem in the canon of modernist cool. Raphael Soriano designed the 3-bedroom home for Shulman and his f ...

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15 hours ago by J. Nijholt-Strong

` photo copyright Judith Nijholt-Strong Flamingoes with Snow-do's December 2009 Yep, it snowed and it snowed, and then it snowed some more. In the 10 years I've lived in the Netherlands, there's never been such a snowfall in one day. Sacha and I didn't venture out too far... just to the back garden. ...

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16 hours ago by Camille Bromley

Musée de Grenoble The colors of Gaston Chaissac are brightening up the winter season here in Grenoble with the current exhibition at the Musée de Grenoble, Gaston Chaissac: poète rustique et peintre moderne. Camille Bromley of Grenoble Life explains. by Camille Bromley Chaissac was a self-taught Fre ...

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23 hours ago by Sarah

So I knew that having been ill and being rather behind (and still immensely tired) I would not be making an Art History post this week. I thought, instead, I would prepare it for next Wednesday but unfortunately the book I wanted from the library has not arrived as the mobile library is unable to ge ...

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1 day ago by gluefingers

One of the most exciting things in art history is studying the progression of an artist’s style, and most importantly, the artist’s obsessions. As I mature as an artist, I can make note of my own phases. My current obsessions are Russian constructivism, Dada typography, repeating patterns (something ...

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1 day ago by Peter Konieczny

Marking Time? A fifteenth-century liturgical calendar in the wall paintings of Pickering parish church, North Yorkshire By Kate Giles Church Archaeology, Vol.4 (2000) Introduction: This article is concerned with the interpretation of a cycle of fifteenth-century wall paintings in the parish church o ...

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1 day ago by MM Curator

MAC's latest collection, Baroque Boudoir, features a pretty damask design "etched like the fine filigree of a French baroque settee" according to the website. French baroque settee?! Let's see if the pattern resembles French Baroque style at all. Lip gloss...

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1 day ago by Naomi Slipp

This article serves as a brief introduction to the genre painting, “War Spirit At Home, Celebrating the Battle at Vicksburg” (1866) produced following the conclusion of the Civil War by the female artist Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902). Meant both as a document of domestic life during the war and a ...

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2 days ago by ekerie

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