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  • The Fountainheads

    Ai Weiwei, Circle of Zodiac Heads Currently on display at The Cleveland Museum of Art are Chinese artist Ai Aweiwei’s bronze representations of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. They have been traveling around…

  • Drawing History

     Divine Law by Violet Oakley, The Pennsylvania Capital Murals, Harrisburg, 1906.  Violet Oakley was the first woman to receive a major mural commission in the United States when she received the commission for the…

  • The London Design Festival 2013

    COVER:SHOW @ 54 Tavistock Place :: THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL My friend Christine Mauersberger’s work is included in the Cover : Show at The London Design Festival 2013. A huge, well-deserved, honor. 

  • Standing Guard

     Cleveland Guardian of Traffic – photo by David Schwartz  The large figures on the Hope Memorial Bridge in Cleveland (also known as the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge) were created by sculptor Henry Hering in 1932 and…

  • Richness of Color

     Universe by Olga Suvorova Another of the artists I have found on Pinterest series. Olga Suvorova (b. 1966) is a Russian artist whose beautifully detailed paintings call to mind the rich color and workmanship…

  • Art for All

    The Detroit Institute of Arts Everyone knows about the financial and societal woes of Detroit. The once grand and prospering city has been in decline for decades now and an emergency manager was appointed…

  • Quiet Remembrance

    Mending Socks by Archibald Motley, 1924, The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina. Although considered part of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Motley never lived in Harlem. He was born in New Orleans and…

  • Discovered on Pinterest

    Marguerite Kelsey by Meredith Frampton, 1928, Tate, London. Meredith Frampton was the son of a sculptor who created very detailed and finely finished paintings of a very modern style for the early 20th century.…

  • Herculaneum – The Redheaded Step Child

    Pompeii A.D. 79 by Alfred Elmore, 1878, Yale Center for British Art An exhibition entitled The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection opened on February 24th and runs through July 7, 2013 at…