Egyptian and Roman Statues Now on Display By Stan Parchin Saturday, December 31, 2005 The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas set an auction bid world record on December 9 when it ... Read More

Marion Boddy-Evans, Guide to About Painting, has created a 2006 calendar that contains artists' quotes. The calendar is free to download and print, and is quite colorful to look at ... Read More

Ah, the holiday season in midtown Manhattan! I, living elsewhere, fancifully envision much festooning of twinkling lights, swags of decorative greenery and banners waving over crowds of sophisticated sidewalk strollers. ... Read More

Every now and then, I write something purely for the fun of it. Properly entitled "Top 10 Least Impressive Museum Merchandising Ideas of 2005," this should, perhaps, be more accurately ... Read More

Rabbula Gospels Repainted By Stan Parchin Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Many modern-day Americans are fascinated with makeovers. People enlist the help of professionals (medical and otherwise) to improve their physical appearances, personal lives, ... Read More

Looking for an art museum exhibition that offers perfect "family" time? You could hardly do better than loading up the children and heading to MoMA's newly opened Pixar: 20 Years ... Read More

Say, this must be some popular crossword puzzle! My inbox is bursting at the seams today with one particular question. "In paintings, small chubby naked boys also called putti (8 letters)" The ... Read More

From the Art History mailbag: "Dear Ma'am, Is manga art? I really like it and anime, but my art teacher says it's not really good art. I'd like to know what you ... Read More

No intentions of bah-ing any humbugs this holiday season, but this is getting my vote for "Best Performance Art of 2005." The Reverend Billy (activist and performance artist Bill ... Read More

By Stan Parchin Saturday December 10, 2005 The new triumvirate of specialists in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was completed yesterday with the announcement of Robert Storr ... Read More

Stan Parchin, our very own intrepid late-medieval and Renaissance specialist, has just sunk his knowledgeable teeth into three of the same sorts of special exhibitions currently on view at the ... Read More

A recent, thoughtful, articulate email came in requesting some information on Dada. Specifically, whether or not the Dadaists were anarchists ("Marilyn Manson") or absurd comedians ("Monty Python"). Well, after (1) ... Read More

A "big" news item making the Arts rounds this week involves a study published Tuesday in the academic journal The Proceedings of the Royal Society. Researchers at the University of ... Read More