While Mr. Forager and I had originally made plans to trek to Big Bear over the weekend, a thick blanket of snow and us sans the CA law required snow chains, along with a sick-with-a-cold Mr. Forager led to…
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It seems that the art world is embracing fashion and its cultural influence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent Alexander McQueen exhibit, Savage Beauty, broke attendance records for fashion exhibits at the institution. Designers, especially ones specializing in couture fashion,…
Though our time in the cities we visited on our cross-country tour was short, we managed to hit a couple of wonderful, yet very different museums along the way. In Tulsa, we spent a few hours exploring the Philbrook…
In my daily reading of Artinfo.com this morning I came across two articles, seemingly unrelated, until the Facebook comments regarding one of the articles tied them together for me. The first article, found here, poses the question, “Should Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Remain Unfinished?” The…
Good morning, all! Do you ever wonder how pieces are chosen for museum exhibits? Why one work makes the cut but another doesn’t? I just read this interesting little article written by Katharine Stout, curator of the new exhibit, “Watercolour”…
Sorry for the late post today– we’ve had some big things happening, so I’ve been a bit preoccupied. More on that later! For this week’s Masters Monday, we’re going a little more modern– enter Pablo Picasso and cubism. Cubism is…
OK, perhaps not exactly your grandmother’s attic, but it seems that a previously unattributed, damaged work stored at Yale University is thought by many experts to be a Velazquez. A Velázquez in the Cellar?.…
I love modern & contemporary art. Artists who find a new way of translating our reality fascinate me. But the Art History geek in me also loves to look back at what was groundbreaking eons ago. We have so much to…
We all remember our first love, the intensity, the drama, it stays with us forever. How a certain song or place will always remind you of those precious feelings. But what about your first ART love? That one painting or…