Shelley's Art History Blog May 2007 Archive

Hot on the heels of a stupendous month of sales, Christie's recently announced that one of the last privately held Raphael paintings on earth will be up at auction ... Read More

By Stan Parchin New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs has announced that Manhattan's 29th Annual Museum Mile Festival is set for Tuesday, June 12, 2007 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. ... Read More

Matt Law, an awesome (and awesomely missed) photographer with whom I used to have the honor of working, wrote and wondered if I had seen the "500 Years of ... Read More

Here is a concept I've been kicking around for a while: how to help students write art history essays without doing the writing for them. Are you stunned that anyone ... Read More

Hawass, Heliodorus, Herod and More By Stan Parchin Life-size terracotta soldiers from the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi (r. 221-210 B.C.), China's first emperor, will be gracing museums worldwide in the months ahead. ... Read More

Christie's May 16, 2007 Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City was, to put it mildly, a roaring success. The sale total of $384,654,400 (US) was the ... Read More

As Stan Parchin outlines in this special exhibition gallery, Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts (on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, ... Read More

I've been reading and watching a thought-provoking thread on Lifehacker entitled "What do you wish you'd been told before you left school?" Some of the replies are touching, some are ... Read More

Have you ever noticed that exhibition seasons often have sub-themes that run across venues? For example, the Summer of 2006 was so pleasantly stuffed with Leonardo shows (due partially, ... Read More