Earth Day always sneaks up on me and sometimes I even miss it! But this year I am here to help you get organized and be prepared to celebrate Earth Day all month long, with 40 ways to use nature and recyclables in art and creative play with kids! The […]
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Art-makers and Earth-lovers unite at Art Maker’s Outpost Earth Month event
Guillermo Herrera performs on a miniature drum established he built. (Picture by Adina Keeling) Artwork Maker’s Outpost is an artwork studio cherished by artists and Earth-lovers alike. The partitions are lined with jars of glitter, bottle caps, buttons and other imaginative products, which are sourced from the neighborhood and diverted […]
Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth
FLORENCE, Italy — When Botticelli and Luca della Robbia produced masterpieces about motherhood, they honored Renaissance idealism with reverential depictions of a serene Madonna and kid. When the painter Jenny Saville developed “The Mothers,” in 2011, her Leonardo-encouraged composition countered that 500-yeary-aged sanctity with a firsthand reflection of her own […]