Van Gogh's Road with Cypress and Star (aka Country Road in Provence by Night) from WikiCommons I have a print of his one hanging in my living room and it has grown on me quite a bit over the last year. I like the juxtaposition between the dark foreboding sky and the light path with […]
1920’s Prohibition Posters: Do It for the Children!
June 27, 2012 by
Poking around the web the other day I came across some prohibition posters and they were pretty scary. Here's a few of them so you get an idea. Some arts of work and some harsh propaganda. Seeing so much nationmalism built into the message is not surprising. And it was for the children!!! Nationalism is […]
The Google World Wonders Project – Visit Historic Sites Around the World
June 11, 2012 by
The Google World Wonders Project takes advantage of Google's Street View technology to create viritual visitation of wonderous sites all around the world just like they did with the Google Art Project. Here's Google's quick summary of what the project is: The World Wonders Project enables you to discover 132 historic sites from 18 countries, […]
The Biggest Art Heist Ever: Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – March 1990
May 6, 2012 by
UPDATE 3/17/2015: The Boston FBI claims they know who pulled the job off, but they are deceased: “We have a high degree of confidence that we know who did this,” said Pete Kowenhoven of the FBI in Boston. Kowenhoven says the two suspects are now dead. “Two individuals that dressed up like the Boston Police […]
The Google Art Project and WikiPaintings: The Art World at Your Fingertips
April 2, 2012 by
The art projects in the works for some time offer some great new ways to look at museums and the life works of artists. The Google Art Project I had not heard of The Google Art Project until a couple of weeks ago and it is very fun to play with. Google is using their […]
Van Gogh’s Classic “A Wheat Field With Cypresses”
March 28, 2012 by
Over the last few months my appreciation of Van Gogh's work has grown quite a bit as I've bought a few prints of his paintings. One of them is "A Wheat Field With Cypresses." There are three versions of this painting. I have the one pictured above which is from the National Gallery in London. […]