Women's (Art) History Month 2018 II
I like to feature pioneering women during National Women’s (Art) History Month. The arts are obviously no exception to the fields in which women have pioneered and excelled. This is as true in J ...
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Curator's Corner
Women's (Art) History Month 2018 I
It took a heck of a lot of work, but after World War II (1939–1945) a group of artists yanked the US away from the love of “all things past” toward modern design. Many of these artis ...
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National Plant a Flower Day
Not only is it National Women’s [Art] History Month, but Monday is National Plant a Flower Day. Due to the two major nor’easters that have rocked the Northeast, I would like to feature a h ...
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Curator's Corner
The Receptive Eye
Every now and then one comes across an artist who tends to get bypassed in art history books. Obviously, those books can’t cover every artist that participated in significant art movements. So, ...
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Curator's Corner
African American History Month 2018 IV
One of the avenues of expression in the flourishing of African American art since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1940) has been the exploration of subject matter concerning the contemporary B ...
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African American History Month 2018 III
Whenever you’ve got a massive case of the “sads” in winter, it’s always helpful to seek color to give you a lift. What am I saying? Even if you don’t have a case of the s ...
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African American History Month 2018 II
Let us not forget that African American artists have existed since the founding of America. Unfortunately, they were not colonists, but forced here as slaves on Dutch, Portuguese, French, Spanish, and ...
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African American History Month 2018 I
I have decided to apply officially to change the name of one of this month’s official designations to include African American Art History Month (although I haven’t really). When ...
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I See Green!
No, I’m not seeing “green” as in a stack of cash or a salad on my supper plate. We had a recent snow melt, and I actually saw grass that looked greenish. In mid-winter, that’s ...
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Happy Birthday Francis Picabia
I always like to celebrate artists who show a wide variety of stylistic exploration. Francis Picabia is certainly one of them. ...
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