The Gurlitt Hoard and The Orpheus Clock:
With Digressions on the Subject of Raubkunst
Following below my reviews of two catalogues relating to the Hildebrand–Cornelius–Gurlitt bequeathal (artworks from the Gurlitt hoard) as has appeared on the Museum Books website and archived on Humanities Commons. First some digressions on the subject of Raubkunst....
Hillsborough County Library Cooperative Art History “Lecture” Series
So, now that my time at the Rifkind Center is coming to an end, I have some breaking news announcements to post in sequence... First, beginning this Saturday and through the summer months I will ... well, be involved in a series of discussions about art history...
The La Brea Tar Pits: Dire Wolves
Skeletons of dire wolves at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, Los Angeles One of the first animals I became fascinated with when I was very little was the dire wolf (canis dirus). This was not for the “dinosaur” reason (although I was also very interested in...
Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017
I have known Mernet Larsen from her role as professor as professor at the University of South Florida's art studio department, and from her many trenchant and witty remarks on the art situation in Tampa, as well as from her kindness to students and fellow faculty. She...
Franz Marc and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater:
An Avant-Garde »Der Sturm« with Hugo Ball, Guest Starring August Macke
My research about the 1914 Franz Marc essay »Das abstrakte Theater« and Marc's collaboration with Hugo Ball on an intended production of The Tempest has been published in a special arts issue of Empty Mirror. The fun long title of the article is "The Tempest and the...
Star Wars and the Power of Costume, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
This is a "locally-coloured" version of this exhibition review. See the "professional" iterations at Humanities Commons or on the Museum Bookstore website. On view through the spring, this exhibition features 60 costumes representing characters from the Star Wars film...
Between Disciplines on Humanities Commons
I was pleased to be asked to write a commemorative post for the Humanities Commons Platypus blog in honour of HC's first anniversary. You can read the full text here or after the jump. Between Disciplines on the Commons What is the relationship between the...
The Dead in Ancient Rome
Funerary imagery permeated Roman culture and riddled the visual landscape. Representations of death in the form of monuments and statuary are the best-known artifacts of Roman Imperial customs surrounding death, but these static glyphs complemented a “lively” practice...
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask
During 2013 when I lived in München Gillian Wearing had a mid-career retrospective at Museum Brandhorst and a poster of the image you see here, "Self Portrait at Seventeen Years Old" (2003) was on placards all over the city as well as a huge replica on the side of the...
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