Shelley's Art History Blog October 2005 Archive

For Leonardo, that is. Leonardo, who is, statistically, beginning to look like the Only Artist Anybody Cares About. Anyway, the question: "The Da Vinci Code" says that Da Vinci received hundreds ... Read More

Chinese Performance artist He Yun Chang, who can be forgiven, maybe, because he's from China and not Buffalo, New York, made a lightning decision during a visit to Buffalo that ... Read More

Short notice, but the Reading Public Museum will have 147 deaccessioned paintings at auction this coming Friday, October 28th, 2005. I'm bringing this up because a number of the artists ... Read More

Cue up the eerie Halloween music, because Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, has just reviewed The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult (on view from September ... Read More

Have you ever wondered what sort of paint was required to allow Jack the Dripper to execute his drip paintings? About Painting Guide, Marion Boddy-Evans, tells all in a new ... Read More

Art Professor Steven Kurtz can't, for obvious reasons, speak about the ongoing wire and mail fraud case (currently in its third postponed ruling on pre-trial motions) in which he's found ... Read More

The Communal Administration of Ancona (a port city located on the Adriatic coast of Italy, in the Marche region) has had its centuries'-old Mole Vanvitelliana spruced-up and refurbished as an ... Read More

Even in my wildest flights of fancy (admittedly, quite wild), no correlation between Corot and colon ever came to mind, but! We've got an Official Scientific Study, complete with a ... Read More

Any special exhibition that includes, in its title, the year that the Black Death first reared its ugly head in Europe has certainly got my attention. When Stan Parchin, Senior ... Read More

Here we have a little walking (or, to be accurate, "clicking") tour of thirteen paintings by Leonardo. Eventually, I'll get around to filling in the skinny - background info, where ... Read More

This Art World observation comes to you from neither an art historian nor an art lover but, rather, a mother. The intolerant kind of mother who has had massive experience ... Read More

From the Art History mailbag: " ... What are your thoughts on the Turner being selected as the 'greatest' painting in Britain? Was this a fair vote, or was it slanted ... Read More

In 2002, computer analyst Stu Smailes died and left the Seattle Art Museum a bequest of around $1 million (US) with two stipulations. The money (1) had to be used ... Read More