Space has long been explored as a metaphor for the transcendental, the mystical, and the entity we call by various names, the spiritual. It would difficult to find a better metaphor for all those subjects, because as we’ve longed known, science determined outer space to be infinite, it never ends. Space shows up, no pun …
Midwestern cultural identity is explored through two of its most widely cherished national figures and the art form, Regionalism, which helped link local community values to an American identity. When Bob Dylan was asked why he left (the Midwest): “There’s no place I feel closer to now, or get the feeling that I’m part of, …
The art world can be and is a microcosm of the world-at-large. Peter Schjeldahl wrote recently in The New Yorker, October 19, 2020, a piece titled “Us Cosmopolitans” questioning the postponement of the Philip Guston retrospective. (Written in all caps, the title becomes a telling double entendre.) Schjeldahl, now 78, born Fargo, North Dakota, …
Mary Lou Parker was a well-known and respected professional artist, poet, newspaper journalist, art teacher, her church’s minister, gospel song-writer, and pianist who made her family’s home in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Ms. Parker married local mortician Joshua Sanders Parker and was the mother to Betty Hawthrone and Roberta Derixson. Parker is remembered today for writing …
This week’s blog introduces the interview with Ray Kass and Howard Risatti, co-founders of the Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop, a Virginia institution from 1980-2017. In this excerpt, Ray Kass characterizes the influence of John Cage on the greater art world.
The raging world-wide pandemic has revealed many realities but key among them is the fragility of the market. The market must be fed everyday or it falls apart. Museums though in essence are not “of the market” they must function as if they were, or fail. With nothing to sell per se, museums, like newspapers …
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Dispelling misconceptions is but one function of Art and maybe this blog. This week we peek into the life and times of Agnes Gund. Lost in the swirl of today’s chaotic world is Gund’s recent and surprising creation of the non-profit organization Art for Justice Fund. Gund created, only in 2017, this non-profit by selling …
Imagine a world without the constant barrage of digital images. The Renaissance was such a world where fantastic paintings like Jan Gossaert’s Adoration of the Kings were viewed only in special places like churches or abbeys. This painting was finished in 1515. Among the greatest technological achievements at the time were European ships just beginning to circumnavigate …
Have you ever spent New Year’s Day calling family or friends, especially ones you haven’t seen in a while? This is the grand tradition when on New Year’s Day gentlemen would spend all day traveling to the homes of as many family members and friends as possible. It was a happy, festive day and …
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