Sean Decatur, the president of Ohio’s Kenyon College, will be the next director of New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), making him the first Black person to lead the institution. In April, Decatur will take over from Ellen Futter, who has been at the helm of the AMNH […]
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Sybaris Collection © | 5 Art Collections in Mexico: A Very Short History
Mexico has a long history in collecting art at least since the 20th Century. Álvar and Carmen Carrillo Gil as well as Rufino Tamayo were wo of the most important art collectors who later donated their private collections to public institutions to give birth to their corresponding museums: the Museo […]
Monsters and Death Masks: A Haunting History of Spooky Art
From true crime to haunted houses to the endless dramatization of serial killers, people enjoy feeling scared (at least on their own terms), a creepy fascination that extends to spooky art. And with Halloween right around the corner, the evidence of our collective love for exploring emotional limits abounds. Horror […]
Two New Exhibitions on Monastic History at the Hungarian National Museum
In the middle of June 2021, two exhibitions opened at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, each dedicated to the history of a monastic order. The first exhibition is dedicated to the 900 anniversary of the foundation of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) order. The members of the order have been present in […]
Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives This summer, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My work involved several projects, from updating metadata to scanning books for the Internet Archive, but much of my time was dedicated to digitizing artists’ collections […]
Artist of Maine’s labor history mural to paint large wall in downtown Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine — This city’s downtown, which has develop into additional lively in current several years as its populace has grown, is likely to get even much more colorful by the stop of the summer season. Judy Taylor, a professional artist who lives in Tremont on Mount Desert Island, has […]
Adrian Stimson’s bison paintings force viewers to reckon with Canada’s colonial history
A solitary bison walks the snow-protected Prairie plains, swathed in rich colors of purple and darkish brown, the only signal of daily life in an usually barren landscape. Versions of this impression look around and above yet again in Alberta Indigenous artist Adrian Stimson’s to start with solo European exhibit, […]
The Arnolfini Portrait By Jan Van Eyck, 1434 | Hidden Meanings & History
At a modest 86cm by 60cm, The Arnolfini Portrait – as it is typically acknowledged – is significantly from the Nationwide Gallery’s biggest portray, but it is surely 1 of its most intriguing. Not for absolutely nothing has it been described as one of the finest examples of Early Northern […]
The First Painting of Nature Scene in European Art History
Spring Fresco depth. Public Area The Spring Fresco identified at the Late Bronze Age website of Akrotiri in Santorini is considered to be the 1st portray of a mother nature scene in European art history. Also named the fresco of the Home of the Lilies, uncovered at the Delta Complicated […]