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Guess the Artist 5 Nov 2012 | 06:35 am
Your clues this week are: The artist worked as a manuscript illuminator and panel painter during the Early Italian Renaissance. Giorgio Vasari, fount of suspect information, claimed the artist train...
October Treats 1 Nov 2012 | 03:49 am
It is Halloween and I am costumed as that famous painting Functionally Literate Middle-Aged Woman with Bad Hairdo. Since you cannot ring my doorbell for your share of the Fun Size Kit Kats (don't worr...
Malcolm D. MacDougall III: Parallel Worlds 1 Nov 2012 | 12:47 am
As everyone on Earth probably knows by now, the US Eastern Seaboard was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. I feel comfortable speaking for my readers in saying we hold all of those affected in our thought...
Guess the Artist 29 Oct 2012 | 06:39 am
Your clues this week are deliberately short: This is an early work. It was painted in the 19th-century. You know who the artist is. And The sitter is connected to the least complicated relationsh...
Have You Met MetPublications Yet? 22 Oct 2012 | 09:52 pm
On October 11, 2012, The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched MetPublications, a new online portal dedicated to distributing The Museum's rich publishing history. An amazing 643 exhibition and collecti...
Guess the Artist 15 Oct 2012 | 07:05 am
Your clues this week are: The artist was born to a Czech father in a large, Eastern European city during the 31 years that it existed as a city-state, sandwiched between two bouts of belonging to duc...
Guess the Artist 8 Oct 2012 | 08:13 am
Your clues this week are: The artist was born in Copenhagen (or, if you prefer, København) in the same year that the Russians "cleansed" the Northwest Caucasus of native Circassian tribes. Profoundl...
Guess the Artist 1 Oct 2012 | 09:21 am
Your clues this week are: The artist was born where Samuel L. Clemens grew up, but was raised in Chicago. The artist studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts during the heyday of the French Impr...
New in September 1 Oct 2012 | 04:45 am
What do you do when inspiration won't show up, and you're forced to hunt it down? My September was filled with a large project, a work that defied all attempts to get the composition right. Sketch, wa...
The Story Behind The Scream 30 Sep 2012 | 11:29 pm
You've probably heard by now that Edvard Munch's The Scream will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24, 2012. This, as they say, is a big deal and fabu...
