I often marvel at how hard producers of the TV show M*A*S*H tried to faithfully depict everyday life in Korea. Of course, looking at this scene from the turn of the 1800s is an unfair comparison to 19 ...
Read MoreMy Labor Day Week series continues with this ukiyo-e woodcut. ...
Read MoreI know that Labor Day is past, but we can keep it going throughout this week with a few works of art that represent the working class. The subject of labor has been a trend in art going all the way ba ...
Read MoreAugust is “American Artist Appreciation Month” continues. We’ll end the celebration with two unusual interpretations of chairs. ...
Read MoreAugust is “American Artist Appreciation Month” continues. Here are two artists on the “cutting edge” of their time. I’ve posted my admiration for Zoe Strauss’ ...
Read MoreMy series about August as “American Artist Appreciation Month” continues. Here’s some art on the subject of “fish.” ...
Read MoreMy blog series about American Artist Appreciation Month continues. Here’s some wonderful art by Dr. Samella Lewis and Jeremiah Paul, Jr. ...
Read MoreAugust is American Artist Appreciation Month, so I’m rolling out some artists you may never have thought about, or seen for that matter. ...
Read MoreThe actual festival of Sumidagawa (“Sumida River”) occurs in Tokyo in the last week of August, but there are fireworks in Tokyo from May through August, starting with the Opening of the Su ...
Read MoreFar too often art history texts sum up the pioneering American avant-garde of the mid-1900s with Abstract Expressionism and the New York scene. Believe it or not, there were avant-garde artists all ov ...
Read MoreI’m always a sucker for color. When I see works that I’ve never seen before by an artist I’ve always admired, and they involve color, then I have a sudden Beauty Attack. When Lynda B ...
Read MoreI am a really big fan of art made from stainless steel, particularly in the field of the miscellaneous arts. Stainless steel tableware started being made early in the 1900s. At this time, Bauhaus ...
Read MoreI’ve written before about the long-standing interest in extreme realism in American painting. Colonial American self-taught artists (“limners”) may not have been schooled in anatomy, ...
Read MoreI don’t often laugh about art history (seriously!), but now and then one just can’t help it. With this group of “portraits,” I had to keep in mind that: A) the people who bough ...
Read MoreI guess Memorial Day is the official “beginning” of outdoor grilling season in the US. I don’t really know the “official” date because I’ve lived in apartments all ...
Read MoreI don’t like to admit to something like this, but when I first saw this work in the MoMA collection, I didn’t pay that much attention to it. When I saw it a second time the other day, I wa ...
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