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In that they may have life (1964), Corita Kent turned images from a Wonder Bread wrapper into a meditation on poverty and hunger that includes quotes from a Hazard, Ky., miner's wife and Mohandas Gandhi. Corita Kent's silkscreens were once compared to Andy Warhol's; her banners and posters were featured at civil rights and anti-war rallies in ...
In Japan, there is a small island in the city of Takehara. It’s jam-packed with feral rabbits that are very comfortable around humans. With just some food and a calm approach, a human gets “attacked” by a hoard of bunnies. What a lucky guy! read more
Sandro Botticelli's Madonna and Child, painted in 1480, shows a reflective Mary in deep blue. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan/National Museum of Women in the Arts This Christmas, images of the Virgin Mary created over five centuries, glow on the walls of the National Museum of Women in the ...
Timothy Spall finds beauty in the unlikeliest places as painter J.M.W. Turner. If you picture landscape painting as a delicate, ethereal, pristine process involving an easel on a hillside and a sunset, Mr. Turner will be an eye-opener. Tim Spall grunts and snorts his way through the film as J.M.W. Turner in ways that will forever link ...
Scott Prior (American, 1949) lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has been a resident since 1971. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he received a BFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts in 1971. He has artwork in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum, the Danforth Museum, the Rose Art Museum and other major public and private collections. He has shown extensively in one-person and group shows in the United States and abroad. In 2001 he had a mid-career ...