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My mom made the mosaic tray to match my dishes.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:40 -0400

My mom made the mosaic tray to match my dishes.

Mid 20th century enamel ashtray.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:31:47 -0400

Mid 20th century enamel ashtray.

Still life.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:30:54 -0400

Still life.

23silence: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - Mrs. Ralph Curtis...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:33:47 -0400

23silence:

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - Mrs. Ralph Curtis (Eliza De Wolfe Colt), 1898

A favorite of mine from Cleveland Museum of Art.

Byzantine fashion - werk it!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:03:42 -0400

Byzantine fashion - werk it!

amamblog: This Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, we will be...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:59:59 -0400

amamblog:

This Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, we will be hosting a very special symposium on Renaissance art in conjunction with our year-long exhibition “Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance” which presents important Renaissance paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the AMAM and the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) collections. The symposium - free and open to the public - will be held in the museum’s King Sculpture Court, and will last from 11am to 6:30pm on April 25, and from 9am to 5pm on April 26.

Presenters include Oberlin College faculty members from the Art, English, History and Musicology departments, three Oberlin College students who were selected via a competitive process, faculty from Case Western Reserve University, Washington & Lee University, Miami University of Ohio, and Ohio State University, along with staff from the AMAM, the YUAG, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Intermuseum Conservation Association.

These two days promise to be exciting ones, and the public is warmly urged to attend. Presentations will range widely on topics related to medieval, Renaissance and baroque art, literature, history and music, as well as pilgrimage and religious practice.

A complete schedule of speakers and events can be found on the symposium’s page here.

If you are in town, we hope you can make it out to some of the talks!

If you have an interest in the Renaissance you will want to look over the symposium schedule - it starts tomorrow.

caravaggista: flannelandpearls: izzikat: Art history...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:58:21 -0500

caravaggista:

flannelandpearls:

izzikat:

Art history stuff.

This is grand! I could have really used this in freshman year survey!

Literally one of the greatest things I HAVE EVER SEEN!!

Love this!

citrusina: Venus with a Mirror (Venus at Her Toilette) Paolo...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:26:42 -0500

citrusina:

Venus with a Mirror (Venus at Her Toilette)

Paolo Veronese, an Italian Renaissance painter

Owned by the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha.

huffpostcomedy: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:06:06 -0500

huffpostcomedy:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

[via oldloves]

It made me sad this week when I heard some chapters were changing the name of the cancer support charity, Glida’s Club, begun in her honor, because younger people did not know her name. Part of their mission should be telling her story.

venusmilk: Arie Zonneveld, (1905-1941)Dennebos This is...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:17:34 -0500

venusmilk:

Arie Zonneveld, (1905-1941)
Dennebos

This is lovely.

timelightbox: 1862. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:22:40 -0400

timelightbox:

1862. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand at Antietam.

For this week’s issue of TIME, Sanna Dullaway digitally colorized archival images of America’s 16th president in hopes of bringing history to life.

See more photos here.

These are so interesting. The color really changes the photos.

artistandstudio: Students sketching in Thomas Hart Benton’s...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:42:20 -0400

artistandstudio:

Students sketching in Thomas Hart Benton’s studio class at the Kansas City Art Institute, 1939. photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt © Time Inc.

Same model for “Persephone.”

Gerome The Grief of the Pasha Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha #gerome

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:56:29 -0400

Gerome
The Grief of the Pasha
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

#gerome

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:36:23 -0400

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Sleeping porch

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:35:16 -0400

Sleeping porch

Glass Bridge Tacoma - Chihuly

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:34:26 -0400

Glass Bridge Tacoma - Chihuly

Gabby - ‘Merican Photo by Lonni

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:33:25 -0400

Gabby - ‘Merican

Photo by Lonni

Fangs

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:32:36 -0400

Fangs

stilllifequickheart: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Yellow...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:19:42 -0400

stilllifequickheart:

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Yellow Tulips

1923

CRM a favorite.

Dale Chihuly “Seaforms”

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:24:43 -0400

Dale Chihuly “Seaforms”