Dear Readers,
After a year and then some (14 months, 58 written and illustrated blogs), it is time to close this project.
I presented topics primarily about our permanent collections of the museum and sculpture park and current exhibitions. Every now and then I wrote on current events in the art world. History was the guiding light. All blogs were written with an eye on sharing techniques for how to read and decipher works of art.
I recap the blog with its complete history and five images representing cultural diversity.
Thank you for reading. I invite you all to stop by the museum and say hello.
Blog History
The End August 13, 2021
Spider-Man as Art (Joe Dodd) July 30, 2021
Binary Relationships July 23, 2021
Northern Moon (Aldon Addington) July 16, 2021
Grant Wood and Midwestern Art July 9, 2021
Dennis Oppenheim Arrives at Cedarhurst 1997 June 25, 2021
Juneteenth June 18, 2021
Summer Vacations (William Glackens, Summer Day) June 11, 2021
The Op Art Vessel (Tom Orr) June 4, 2021
Animals with Tales (Joel Feldman, Eugene Higgins) May 28, 2021
The GPS Kimball May 21, 2021
James Baldwin & The Toilette of Venus (Jed Jackson) May 14, 2021
The artist Chakaia Booker & the artist Jessica Brown May 7, 2021
Robert Youngman’s Cedarhurst One April 29, 2021
Reading with Ken Botnick & John Fraser April 23, 2021
Mt Vernon’s Second Best Art Teacher (Ivan Summers) April 16, 2021
Mrs T is “non-fungible” but is not an NFT April 9, 2021
Themes of Allegory (Night of the Living Dead, Fight Club, Parasite) April 2, 2021
McLellan’s Dialectic March 26, 2021
American Artists of Asian Heritage (Arthur Towata, Jiyong Lee, Cheonae Kim) March 19, 2021
Spring Narcissus (Hassam, The Table Garden) March 12, 2021
The Semiotic Hay Cart (Prendergast) March 5, 2021
Encyclopédie, Smithsonian & Cedarhurst February 26, 2021
Smithsonian’s “Things Come Apart” February 19, 2021
Jefferson & Diderot February 12, 2021
The Allegory of Freedom (Victor Wang) February 5, 2021
The Myth of Icarus & The Object of Art (Brent Kington) January 29, 2021
Beauty, Truth, and a New Year (Veiled Rebecca, Urn, Windsor chair) January 22, 2021
John Singer Sargent January 8, 2021
New Year Calling January 2, 2021
Gossaert’s Adoration December 26, 2020
The Art & Justice of Agnes Gund December 18, 2020
Monetization: Digital Entertainment or Visual Analysis December 11, 2020
Ray Kass on John Cage December 4, 2020
Mary Lou Parker (Hymn: Do You Know Him?) November 27, 2020
American Values in Art (Neoclassic Architecture, Appellate Courthouse) November 20, 2020
Schjeldahl on the Guston Affair November 13, 2020
Dylan & Miles (Midwest art) November 6, 2020
The Spiritual in Art (Ethan Meyer) October 30, 2020
John Cage Values (Sonic Youth) October 23, 2020
The Mountain Lake Experience October 16, 2020
REM & Talking Heads (Howard Finster) October 9, 2020
Teju Cole’s Caravaggio October 2, 2020
Mythology of The Bull September 25, 2020
The Life of Thomas Eakins September 18, 2020
Museums Study History Through Art September 11, 2020
William Edmondson September 4, 2020
Formalism and Symbolic Content August 28, 2020
What is a Permanent Collection? August 22, 2020
The Curator-Visitor Relationship August 14, 2020
Aesthetic Autonomy (Siegfried Reinhardt) August 7, 2020
The Origins of Museums July 31, 2020
Thinking through History July 24, 2020
Reading Memes July 17, 2020
What is Art Conservation July 10, 2020
The Role of Museums in Democracies July 3, 2020
Sue Shrode and Eastern Leanings June 26, 2020
Welcome to My Blog June 15, 2020
