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  • Save the Wrapping

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Arc de Triomphe, Paris 2021 Conceived and proposed in 1961, the vision of the artist’s has finally been realized. Unfortunately, neither of them are still alive to see it complete. It…

  • Resting

    Flower Market, Tokyo by Robert Frederick Blum, c. 1892. Blum was born in Cincinnati where he worked for a lithographer before he began to take classes in drawing. He had a strong interest in…

  • Build Your Own

    Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Leon Gerome, ca. 1890. Gerome is well known for his beautiful paintings but he also took up sculpture late in his career and created a sculpture based on this same…

  • Pride

    Colonisation: The Great City of Tenochtitlan by Diego Rivera, 1945, Mural from the National Palace, Mexico City. Diego Rivera was an active and outspoken Communist who painted these murals (featuring the world of the…

  • Cafe Art

    Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin, 1888, National Gallery of Art. Known as the Volpini Suite, Gauguin’s ground-breaking show that is widely considered to be the first exhibition of Symbolist Art.

  • Interior Old Penn Station

    McKim, Mead and White

  • An Apple a Day

    Rebel in the Making: Schoolboys Exercising, with One Eating an Apple (Japan, 1936), Fritz Henle, I saw a wonderful show of the photography of Fritz Henle at that Ransom Center at the University of…

  • Spring Break

    Red Canna by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1923, University of Arizonia Art Museum. Everyone has many associations with a flower – the idea of flowers. Still-in a way – nobody sees a flower – really –…

  • Snoozers

    Woman Lying on a Bench by Carl Larsson, 1913, Louvre I guess it is pretty obvious what I would like to be doing….