The Chichu Art Museum, designed by celebrated Japanese architect Tadao Anda, is built mostly underground. Open courtyards and skylights bring in natural light. The island is internationally known for its works of modern art and architecture. Art can enlighten, soothe, challenge and provoke. Sometimes it can transform a community. ...
Claude Monet (1840-1926) La Promenade, Argenteuil (The Walk, Argenteuil) 1875
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Usually when there's a question about who created a piece of art, the artist is dead and can't speak for himself — he can't say, "Hey, I made that," or "Nope, not mine." But this is a story about a living artist who has gone to court to prove that a painting in fact is not his. The painting in question is a desert landscape. There's blue sky at ...
Reading by the Window Charles James Lewis (1830 - 1892) “Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the ...