Why Was Whistler’s Mom Such a Grump? At The Clark Art Institute.
Considered, by many, to be the most important American work of art to have never lived in the U.S., Whistler’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother)” was painted in 1871, purchased by the French government in … More…
Sending Art to the Moon
The Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institution has plans to send a four-chambered ‘Ark’ to the moon. The size of half a soda can, this ark will hold four engraved sapphire disks, small metal sculptures, biological samples of life on earth, … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD) Elena Green’s “Vestiges I”
A recently SOLD work by Elena Green, Vestiges I. In Greek mythology, the vestigial siren is part-bird and part-woman whose song lures men to their destruction. Vestiges I traces the historical archetype of women as depicted in literature and … More…
Looted in Syria – and sold in London: the British antiques shops dealing in artefacts smuggled by Isis
A very interesting story about the market for looted antiquities. Mark Altaweel, an archaeologist, went on a hunt in London and it did not take long to find many suspect items being offered for sale. According to the article, … More…