This new article is an introduction to the different periods and phases of what we call the Renaissance - an extremely popular Art History search term, if statistics are to ... Read More

Jonathon Keats, a San Francisco conceptual artist, has applied for a copyright on his mind. Honestly. He claims, in a recent Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal article, that ... Read More

With great fanfare, royalty in attendance and a half dozen bullfights, the new Pablo Picasso Museum opened in his native city of Malaga, Spain yesterday. According to his daughter-in-law, ... Read More

My weekend was spent revising the About Art History site indices (and then being forcibly dragged from the computer by my family). In all, the revisions will make for ... Read More

Since it's Pablo Picasso's birthday today, it seemed like a friendly gesture to highlight Georges Braque, too (he sometimes gets overlooked, or is merely mentioned as a side-note in the ... Read More

Your mother was right, you know. One should always be kind to others. If you are on the Admissions Board of a University, for example, you should ask yourself ... Read More

The novelist, Siri Hustvedt, wrote in a recent column for the Guardian Unlimited's Observer that she believes she may have discovered a cleverly disguised self-portrait in Francisco de Goya's anti-war ... Read More

The Boston Globe reported today that, as with fellow Dutch artists van Gogh and Rembrandt, M. C. Escher now has a museum in the Netherlands dedicated to his work. ... Read More

This just in from the BBC News World Edition: Pietro Gaietto, an archaeologist, claims to have found the oldest artwork ever (perhaps as much as 200,000 years old) in the ... Read More

In the first installment of what is proving to be a massive undertaking, this article explores what was happening (art-wise) in the Late Upper Paleolithic period. Those wacky Homo sapiens ... Read More

In another "who'd a thunk it" story of friendship between artists (see Dalí + Disney = Destino), the artists Christo and (wife/artistic partner) Jeanne-Claude recently completed the sculpture Wrapped ... Read More

You are a valued and appreciated guest at this site. If this is your first visit, the title (right above this) leads to an article which will help you find ... Read More

More names have been added to the Famous Names in Art pages. Mind you, it's a struggle to limit myself to short highlights on any artist. They all have fascinating ... Read More

A collaborative animated film, 57 years in the making, will make its US debut next weekend at the 41st New York Film Festival. It seems that the two artists ... Read More

William Steig, 95, cartoonist for the New Yorker and illustrator of childrens' books, passed away this weekend at his home in Boston. Those of you with children probably know him ... Read More

The weather has been wretched here this weekend; unsuitable for outdoor activity, unless one has a fondness for mud. As a result, there are lots (so many I have ... Read More

There's been somewhat of a ruckus in Nevada County, California lately. According to the first report from the local paper, The Union, five artists were asked to remove their works ... Read More

What a tough article to write! How does one try - or even have the audacity to try - to cover 3200 centuries of art in a brief fashion? An ... Read More