Women's History Month 2017: Julia Morgan
There aren’t many women architects who share the star power of names such as Mies van der Rohe or I.M. Pei, but, like many things in the old timey art history books—like sculpture—ar ...
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It's All in the Details: Lemon Hill
I’m not sure if the Benjamin Latrobe-like klismos side chair in the foreground of the photograph below is original to Lemon Hill, but the curving door is. This interesting detail is on the secon ...
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African American History Month 2017: Margaret Burroughs
The final post in my series celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Two Centuries of Black Art exhibit features Margaret Burroughs. Known more as an educator, equality advocate, and prolific write ...
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African American History Month 2017: Enslaved Artists
The landmark first retrospective exhibition of African American artists from slavery to contemporary took place forty years ago. Between September of 1976 and August of 1977, the exhibition Two Centur ...
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What's in a Snake 3: Poul Henningsen
Today’s post in my Snakes in Art series shifts to modern design. I guess a chair is an example of a good serpent! There’s something both ironic and logical in the combination of a serpent ...
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American Renaissance Architecture: Frank Furness
“American Renaissance” is sometimes used to refer, stylistically, to the period between the Civil War (1860–1865) and 1900. Some call the same period “Victorian,” but, Vi ...
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First Snow Response
In the last week we had our first measurable snow in Massachusetts. I’m totally the kind of dork who’s all “it’s so pretty to walk around when it’s snowing.” And si ...
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Reiko Sudo and NUNO
About a year ago I introduced you to the fiber art of Reiko Sudo and NUNO Corporation of Japan. We currently have an exhibition in the Davis Art Gallery of a Japanese-born fiber artist, Mihoko Wakabay ...
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Vacation Time Activities in Art
I was on vacation recently in Provincetown and, being an art history nerd, thought I would give some visual explanations. ...
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It Isn't Just Wood
The American revolution in modernism in the mid-1900s was not confined to painting and sculpture alone (i.e., Abstract Expressionism). Aside from the New York School’s exploring the question of ...
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