Actually, the nearest place to find a copy of our new “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters” is right on your computer at either Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, Borders, or our own web shop. And, since “Art + Travel” launches on shelves tomorrow, you can also look for it in your favorite ... Read More »
Sure—us, you, Kanye West, your grandmother—we’ve all got blogs. But the new project hosted on the website of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is the first time we’ve heard of a singular work of art from a master of the early modern school having its own regularly updated website. Called “Bedroom Secrets”, the new blog follows the slow-moving ... Read More »
Whether or not they’re wholly truthful, Derek Jarman’s “Caravaggio” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo” are at least faithful to the stories of the artists they portray—delivering the tone, the feeling of those real lives if not their exact details. Wonderful and effective as they are, these and other films following the histories of these great painters do lack ... Read More »
As residents of a city that is home to arguably the best Modern Art museum—MoMA—the most exciting showcase of natural and historical artifacts—The American Museum of Natural History—and quite possibly the most diverse and comprehensive art museum in the world—the Met—we New Yorkers are often shockingly complacent and ignorant of the creative treasures that lie right under our noses. ... Read More »
Well here’s a meme whose time has come. BoingBoing, the enterprising curators that they are, dug up the portfolio of artist Mark Bennett, an illustrator who seems as enamored with the golden age of the boob tube as he is with the architectural draftsmanship. As seen above and below, Bennett has created fully detailed to-scale blueprints of some of ... Read More »
If you track the life of Francisco Goya either by visiting Madrid yourself with our books in hand or just through the armchair tour offered in our forthcoming “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”, you would be forgiven if walked away thinking that the most famous artist of his time rose to fame ... Read More »
Thumbing through a copy of our forthcoming “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”, you’ll find that if you want to understand Van Gogh, you need to see the yellow fields of Arles yourself, if you want to get inside Vermeer, a trip to Delft is in order, and, if the dark spirit behind ... Read More »
\Both Edvard Munch and Francisco Goya will just be some of the faces staring out from the walls of the Princeton University Art Museum the next few months as the space winds through its “The Artist as Image” exhibition. Featuring self-portraits by a diverse selection of famous names—Kiki Smith, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Marc Chagall are all represented—the ... Read More »
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