This is the grave of Andy Warhol. Let's just get it out of the way up front--I really do not like Andy Warhol. I don't like his art, I don't like his persona, I don't like the scene around him as he set himself as...
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This fascinating 1943 film, surprisingly out of MGM, is a great 10 minute introduction in the midcentury American art scene. It focuses on a few painters, some of which don't.
This is the grave of Jacob Lawrence. Born in Atlantic City in 1917, Lawrence grew up poor. His parents had moved north during the early years of the Great Migration..
This is the grave of Edvard Munch. Born in 1864 in Loten, Norway, near the Swedish border, Munch grew up genteel but poor, the son of a military doctor. His father was a religious fanatic and this deeply affected the boy. Fanaticism would be a...
This is the grave of Robert Mapplethorpe. Born in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens, Mapplethorpe grew up pretty well off. His father was an electrical engineer. He graduated from high.
I talk frequently here about the horrible conditions of farmworkers, so I am happy to be able to highlight the paintings of Narsiso Martinez, a former farmworker himself who now.
This is a super fascinating 1988 film where the famous British artist David Hockney takes us through two Chinese scrolls to show how perspective in different cultures works. One is before European influence on Chinese art and one is after European influence. This is possibly...
C45BXM Hitler, propaganda postcard. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown. This is just downright fascinating. In the final days of the Second World War, a train loaded with relics of.
This is the grave of John Trumbull. Born in 1756 in Lebanon, Connecticut, Trumbull grew up in the New England elite of the Revolutionary generation. His father was Connecticut governor.
This is the grave of Gilbert Stuart. Born in 1755 in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, Stuart grew up in comfortable circumstances. I've driven by this house hundreds of times as it is on the way to where I work, but I've never actually stopped at the...
Here's a statue that definitely doesn't need to come down. For centuries, in a picturesque Tuscan town near the Mediterranean coast, legions of pilgrims came to venerate one of Christendom’s.
This is the grave of Winslow Homer. Born in 1836 in Boston, Homer came from an old New England family. His mother was a talented amateur artist and gave Winslow.