*THIS SATURDAY: ‘Go Figure: Art About Mankind and Mind’ Participating Artists: J. D. Sage and Kevin Burns Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 6-9 p.m. Gallery Hours and Guided Tours: Saturdays and Sundays, October 9-23, 1-4 p.m. Closing Reception with TED-Style Talks: Wednesday, October 26, 6-9 p.m. Sprinkler Factory Gallery Opposites Attract in Worcester Exhibit of…
Rare milestone in history of science sells for more than £350,000 at Bonhams Book Sale
LONDON – A rare first edition of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist, a milestone in the history of chemistry, sold at Bonhams, London on 25 March 2015 for £362,500. It had been estimated at £50,000-70,000. article via ArtDaily | featured image: It is the first book that combined chemistry with physics and paved the way for the work of…
How Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ Went Viral
“The Great Wave,” Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print from the early 1830s, may be the most famous artwork in Japanese history, and its popularity isn’t cresting anytime soon. By Ellen Gamerman | via Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2015 | Image: Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ (1830-31) Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The image of a wave towering over…
looks matter: a century of iconic food packaging
Article by Tove Danovich | The Salt {NPR} | March 16, 2015 We take the packaging our food comes in for granted. Yet many of the boxes, bags and bottles that protect our edibles were once groundbreaking — both in their design and in how they changed our perception of what’s inside. Sometimes, packaging is so…
blood on the canvas: the greatest feuds in art history
In his exhibition You Were Shit in the 80s, artist Mackie imagines fictional feuds between great artists. He didn’t need to. Real art history is riddled with rivalries – from Leonardo’s attempted castration of Michelangelo’s David, to Picasso and Matisse’s love wars article by Jonathan Jones | via The Guardian | 12 March 2015 {featured image: Van Gogh…
the beautiful lost art of letter writing
via The Huffington Post | by Priscilla Frank | 03.13.2015 “Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations,” John Graham wrote to his wife Elinor in 1958. “In fact, it is its finest residue.” So begins Liza Kirwin’s More Than Words, a stunning collection of artist-made illustrated letters mined from the Smithsonian…
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