Shelley's Art History Blog April 2007 Archive

In actuality, the full title of this exhibition is Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. Both Cézanne and Picasso play large roles in the show (though perhaps ... Read More

Andy Warhol's Green Car Crash (1963), a.k.a. Green Burning Car I, will be up at auction on May 16, 2007 at Christie's New York. Also among the 78 lots at ... Read More

I always get a big kick out of the nine images Stan Parchin selects to accompany the quarterly special exhibitions listings. They come as much a surprise to me as ... Read More

New Theory Upsets Previous Ones By Stan Parchin On Friday, March 31, 2007, the Associated Press reported that after eight years of intensive research, 56-year-old French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin revealed his findings ... Read More

All right, how does one spell out a fanfare phonetically? Because, ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present the long anticipated, often imitated, never duplicated, the one, the ... Read More

Image captions are things we sometimes take for granted while browsing through art history pictures. They are there in much the same capacity as rolling screen credits at the ... Read More

Venice, Vatican and Vernacular Text By Stan Parchin The Associated Press reported on February 2, 2007 that the 321-foot-high campanile or bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy will have ... Read More

While this is not exactly a topic that makes millions of hearts go pitter-pat, I have spent an amazing amount of time reading approximately 84,000 books on Impressionism lately. Just ... Read More