So many things are being written now about Martin Luther King, Jr., reminding us of his courage, his eloquent speeches,…
So who is Banksy? No one knows. Where‘s he from? Maybe Bristol, England. What is Banksy? That one we know.…
Oil barrels, a Medieval tower, the Kunsthalle, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Australian coast, the Pont Neuf, the Reichstag,…
1937. Nazi Germany was in its heyday. Leaders in other countries, Benito Mussolini in Italy and Francisco Franco in Spain,…
At its highest levels, the art world is international. An artist may come from country A, an artwork’s owner from…
The art world lost a significant figure last week when Chuck Close died in Oceanside, New York. The first time…
In the last twenty-five posts, we looked at many beautiful artworks, making it easy to imagine artmaking as a rewarding…
In the first week of the Tokyo 2020 Olympiad, there were dramatic moments on the tracks and off the mats.…
Last week in The Original Olympians we talked about the prominence of mythology in art history. We began a look…
O’Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917. In 1929 she returned with an artist friend; they stayed and had studios…