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  • The Perfect Hostesses

    The Three Graces by Antonio Canova, 1814-17, The Victoria and Albert Museum. Canova worked in the Neoclassical style and the subject of this work goes back to that time as well. It depicts three…

  • Alma mater

    Louis Comfort Tiffany artwork at the University of Michigan. Peacock mosaic. 

  • Found and Flowing

    Between Heaven and Earth by El Anatsui, 2006. The Metropolitan Museum of Art From Ghana, artist El Anatsui uses found object to create beautiful works of art that drape and hang within the spaces…

  • Happy Memorial Day

    Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1958, Whitney Museum of American Art

  • Precious Cargo

    The Poisoned Cup (aka “Carrying a Peacock”) by John Dawson-Watson, 1869 Another artist discovered via Pinterest. John Dawson-Watson was a British Impressionist whose early work seems very similar to John Everett Millais of the…

  • BLONDIE!

    Dagwood by David Gihooly Gihooly is known for his humorous ceramic sculptures. This one references the huge, crazy sandwiches the character Dagwood used to make in the Blondie cartoons.

  • Paper Landscape

    Gas Giant by Jacob Hashimoto at MOCA, Los Angeles Jacob Hashimoto creates large installation pieces made up of many small parts that are constructed, quite often by utilizing kite making techniques. You can see…

  • Greatness Won’t Stay Hidden

    Portrait of President Barack Obama. Artist: Kehinde Wiley. Correction, this is not the official White House portrait. This one is housed at the National Portrait Gallery.

  • Art Online During COVID

    Miss Dora Wheeler, William Merritt Chase, 1882-83, The Cleveland Museum of Art. This painting is one of the rel gems of the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. They have access to a…