Help! I Have to Write a Paper on The Da Vinci Code!
Saturday October 30, 2004
All right now, settle down, kids. Nine emails in one week, all asking the same question, is a big enough hint. I get it. You have to write papers on ... Read More
Artists You Should Know: Praxiteles
Saturday October 30, 2004
In his profile, it's mentioned that the ancient Greek sculptor, Praxiteles, led a Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous, but how do we know this? Well, his life was very ... Read More
Russian Art: The Next Big Thing?
Tuesday October 26, 2004
Nary a week passes that one doesn't read that, yes, Russian art is on the cutting edge of collecting. (This 'one', not your basic high powered collector, takes their words ... Read More
Artists You Should Know: Gustave Caillebotte
Sunday October 24, 2004
The scene pictured here, Paris Street: Rainy Day, probably looks familiar, doesn't it? Its creator, Gustave Caillebotte, is a perfect example of an artist whose work we've all seen and ... Read More
An "Old" Rembrandt and a "New" Raphael
Thursday October 21, 2004
Who ever said Art History was dull? It seems to be an extremely plastic discipline, these days. For example, a soon-to-be-released biography has cast suspicion over the age of ... Read More
Artists You Should Know: Childe Hassam
Sunday October 17, 2004
Aside from being one of the best known American Impressionists, Childe Hassam was one heck of a nice guy. He loved the companionship of other artists (especially gal ... Read More
Artists, apparently, needn't know how to spell.
Tuesday October 12, 2004
This story has conflicted me. On the one hand, an artist named Maria Alguilar received $40K (US) to construct her 16-foot-wide circular mural at the entrance of Livermore, California's main ... Read More
The Florentine School and the Portrayal of Male Youth
Sunday October 10, 2004
After explaining this in many individual emails, it was time to (mentally, at least) dope-smack myself and write an article. So many of us have become fixated on the feminine ... Read More
Artists You Should Know: John Kraft
Wednesday October 6, 2004
One evening, while wading through a massive backlog arts-related email, a press release about a San Francisco Bay Area artist leapt off the screen. "What sort of crazy person," I ... Read More
'Da Vinci Code' Plagiarism Lawsuits
Tuesday October 5, 2004
A writer named Lewis Perdue wrote a novel in 1983 entitled The Da Vinci Legacy, in which a hero and heroine embark on a quest to solve a mystery, written ... Read More
Top 10 Books on Women's Art History
Saturday October 2, 2004
There was a good deal of positive reader feedback from "Where are all the famous women artists?", written a couple of weeks ago. Curiously, every single email came from a ... Read More