Shelley's Art History Blog

Here we have another splendid list of Those Art Exhibitions We Mustn't Miss, courtesy of Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions. Stan, as "Wide World of Sports" ... Read More

Matija Milkovic Biloslav, a Slovenian artist participating in Singapore's Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts Asian Arts Camp: Urbanonurban exhibition, had his installation (entitled "I am going to send you to ... Read More

Free Timed Tickets Available by Stan Parchin Wednesday November 23, 2005 Malibu's Getty Villa, one of California's vast repositories of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, is scheduled to reopen on Saturday, January 28, ... Read More

By Stan Parchin Friday November 18, 2005 New York City's Pierpont Morgan Library, with its estimated $102 million, three-year expansion by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano coming to completion, reportedly will reopen ... Read More

Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a unit of eight Special Agents dedicated to tracking down stolen works of art? According to the FBI, art "theft, ... Read More

Stan Parchin, our own Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, has just had a fine time immersing himself in Memling's Portraits, a hugely popular exhibition currently on view at ... Read More

Melissa Snell, About Guide to Medieval and Renaissance History, is putting together an image gallery of illuminated manuscripts that I just had to point you all towards. First, because these ... Read More

by Stan Parchin Friday November 11, 2005 Fur, the cinematic biography of ground-breaker Diane Arbus (1923-1971), the first American photographer whose works were exhibited at the Venice Biennale, is in post-production. Directed ... Read More

Rummaging through the About Art History mailbag, this in from Trevor P.: "Can you help me? I am writing a paper about the artist Vermeer. Was his name Jan or Johannes? ... Read More

Oscar Goodman, the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, proposed today on the television show "Nevada Newsmakers" that "those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on ... Read More

An unspecified number of subscribers to AmericanStyle Magazine have voted for their favorite U.S. art fairs and festivals in 2005, and the hot off the hard drive article results are: 1. ... Read More