Category Archive: Art

The School of Athens — In Our Time, Mar. 26, 2009

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The School of Athens — In Our Time, Mar. 26, 2009
This show touches on a number of different interesting points. It only briefly discusses the fresco itself as a fresco. The bulk of the show is focused on where and how pagan philosophy found itself inside the walls of the Vatican. It’s noted that while [...]

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Wonderful article about Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in the Guardian. The painting is 100 years old this year. "It's not just 100 years in the life of a painting, but 100 years of modernism. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is the rift, the break that divides past and future. Culturally, the 20th century began in 1907." — #   01/11/2007

ABC News's The Blotter follows up on the stolen Goya story with the Top 10 Art Heists which includes the Rembrandts and Vermeer stolen from the Gardner. — #   11/21/2006

A new top 100 list! The Atlantic publishes their top 100 most influential Americans. As they said in their email, "Let the debates begin." Plenty to debate here, but I loved this one-sentence description of Woodrow Wilson (#10): "He made the world safe for U.S. interventionism, if not for democracy." — #   11/21/2006

From The Blotter: "The Toledo Museum of Art has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the painting by the Spanish artist Goya, Children with a Cart, which was being sent to New York for a special Goya exhibit set to open this Friday at the Guggenheim." Update 11/20: The painting has been recovered. — #   11/14/2006

The Empire State Freedom Tower

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Overheard in the offices of David Childs, Architect: “You know what Manhattan needs? Another Empire State Building. A little more modern, sure, but really why mess with a classic?” Behold the new Freedom Tower:

Pay no attention to the current Tallest Building in Manhattan. It looks nothing like the new design.

……Jesus…… [...]

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Google Earth Pics

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Well I could spend literally all day doing this.

The only question so far is why does the zoom lose pixellation over Constantinople? I was hoping to get a single post together of all the great churches (great in my opinion anyway) in Christendom together in one post. Doesn’t seem right not to have [...]

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The (Two) Single Greatest Paintings Ever Made

Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Hockney’s sendup of the Rembrandt drawing, with which I agree completely, has me in the mood to making sweeping art pronouncements. Below are the two greatest paintings ever made.

The reproduction of the Conversion of Saul isn’t bad, but I’m afraid that of Ma Jolie does the painting no justice at all. If you’re [...]

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The Single Greatest Drawing Ever Made

Wednesday, June 8, 2005

“I defy you to show me a better one.”

“Look at the speed, the way he wields that reed pen, drawing very fast, with gestures that are masterly, virtuoso, calling attention not to themselves but rather to the very tender subject at hand, a family teaching its youngest member to walk. Look, for instance, at [...]

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You’re No Caravaggio

Thursday, February 26, 2004

I will wade into the discussion of Mel Gibson’s celebration of violence only so far as to say that he shall not besmirch the name of Caravaggio, in my opinion the greatest pure painter in history, by claiming to have been inspired by him when Gibson set out to make his gore-fest.
To wit, this bears [...]

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Team to Attempt Human Cloning

Friday, March 9, 2001

CNN.com – Team to attempt human cloning. Does anyone see the irony in a group of doctors meeting in Rome to announce their effort to clone a human being?

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