Some Flourish While Others Decline
It drives me absolutely nuts as an art historian the way Western art history textbooks treat Mesoamerican and South American cultures in a peripheral way, yet fawn all over ancient Greece and ancient ...
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Sister-in-Law/Beautiful Landscape
My sister-in-law Stacy's birthday coming up on the fourteenth of November. She’s a beautiful person both inside and out. Since I couldn’t find any “sister-in-law” works of art ...
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Tree Memories
Meet my new “find”: the awesome painter Rodney Taylor. As a Virgo, I do not routinely paint totally from memory. While a memory can evoke very specific imagery, it is often affected by emo ...
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A Prescription
It was rainy and damp in New England for quite some time in October. My prescription for the rainy blues is color (and art history, of course). ...
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Rich History
I just returned from vacay, spending my last day in Dublin after leaving Switzerland. We went to the National Museum of Ireland, where we saw tons of beautifully executed golden objects that have ...
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Workus Interruptus (Vacation)
Even though I’m half Swiss, I’m not really a Swissaholic. I just happen to see a lot of art that happens to be from Switzerland that also happens to be worth sharing. I’m going on va ...
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Color for the End of September
With all the storms this month, what better way to end September than with a storm of color? And what better way to end with color than to show you the work of artist Charles Clough. He is 1 ...
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The Iconoclast (?)
It would probably take me forever to be able to say that I had “seen it all” in the world of art. You know the old expression, “just when you thought you’d seen it all,” ...
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An Art Ode to Labor Day Week, part 5
I’m pretty certain that all of us have felt like this guy looks at one time or another after a long, hard day at work. What I’d like to show with this artist—through his image of a h ...
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An Art Ode to Labor Day Week, part 4
We should take a “time out” in the corner if we ever complain about what we have to wear to work, whether it’s a uniform, suit, or office casual. Can you imagine working outside doin ...
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