Michelangelost™
…German Modernism and Errata
Introducing Michelangelost™
Michelangelost™ is the newest name for the blog I have been writing since 2006, which began as mostly about dogs and animals. It has since had several titles, including Errata and German Modernism, and expanded to include numerous topics. Even though this website is...
Birds: Ornithology as Art
We, as mere humans, cannot see and feel as birds do as they navigate their habitats. Birds have immediate needs that relate directly to food availability, energy, water, and temperature, social contact, reproduction, predator detection, and shelter that are more...
Condensation Cubes
Over the summer I began writing for Arte Fuse with this review of Vapor and Vibration: The Art of Larry Bell and Jesús Rafael Soto at the Tampa Museum of Art. I quite like the show, and thought the curator was quite successful with this...
The Gurlitt Hoard and The Orpheus Clock
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
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...
Contact
Email me with questions about Franz Marc, art history, real and representational animals, or provenance and authentication research: jeanmarie punkt carey at symbol protonmail punkt ch.
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