Shelley's Art History Blog

From the Art History inbox: I have a sweat shirt painted by "The Baron & Roth." I feel the Roth part is Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Who is, or was, The ... Read More

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If you have even half the juvenile mindset with which I am stuck, perhaps your first thought also ran to pounds of flesh that could be donated and, indeed, never ... Read More

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Say, this is fun! About.com Plays / Drama Guide Wade Bradford has written a 15-minute, one act play about two young women, a magical trunk and some of the Impressionist ... Read More

One day in mid-January, after the Renaissance Siena exhibition had closed and was being deinstalled at The National Gallery, London, an almost-500 year old painting slipped its temporary frame and ... Read More

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Our intrepid art critic, Beth Gersh-Nesic, and I had more fun with with her review of the Gustave Courbet exhibition (on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through May ... Read More