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"Willem van Heythuysen," 2005. Oil and enamel on canvas. Wiley says his subjects pick their poses from art history books — as in this take on an old Dutch painting. Katherine Wetzel/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ...
Courtesy of Myles Johnson and Kendrick Daye Like lots of little kids, Jeremiah Nebula — the main character of a children's book called Large Fears — has big dreams. He wants to go to Mars. But Jeremiah is also pretty different from the characters that Myles Johnson, the author of the Kickstarter-backed book, met in the ...
Why does there seem to be such a vast space between Etsy and blue-chip virtual auction houses like Sotheby's? Where's the website where you can spend $200 or $2,000 on quality art online? New companies are trying to fill that gap. Let's say you're not a millionaire but you're still interested in buying affordable art from the comfort of ...
Max Uth (1863-1914) The beer garden The German painter Max Uth was born 1863 in Berlin and studied at the arts academy under Eugen Bracht. He continued his studies during journeys to Belgium, Dalmatia, Italy and Tyrol. In 1897 he opened a studio for female students, which was visited by Gertrud Berger (1870-1949), Laura Schaberg (ca. 1860-1935) and Sophie Wencke-Meinken (1874-1963). He was an art professor and director of the ...
A month after her father died of sepsis, Jennifer Rodgers began creating maps. She took a large piece of paper, splattered it with black paint and then tore it into pieces. Then she began to draw: short black lines mimic the steps she walked in the hospital hallway during her father's hospitalization. Of I Wish You The Sunshine Of Tomorrow, Rodgers says: "The ICU room my dad was in on the day he died had yellow walls. Every time we ...
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