Big news from the Baltimore Museum of Art. A $3.5 million gift supporting the world’s largest Matisse collection.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has the largest collection of works by Matisse of any art museum in the …
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Online: NYC’s Museum of Modern Art is digitizing every exhibition since MoMA’s opening in 1929.
Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh was name of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art when it opened …
Christie’s: “Everyone from Tom Hanks to Lady Gaga is rediscovering the beauty of manual typewriters.”
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, …
Fran Lebowitz: Now. Then. Young. Stunning.
Preface: I discovered W through a designer friend, Bill McCreight, in New York in the early 70s and I’ve been …
Photographer, Berenice Abbott was born 116 years ago today
Photography helps people to see. Those famous words were spoken by Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). If you are as inspired by them …
Dude, the Lost Wireman
Throughout the 1960s, Dude’s alarm clock rang at 4:00 a.m.—Saturdays, Sundays, holidays included. An hour or so later he was …
Demme won, Material Culture won, we won
I wrote a short while back about Material Culture’s weekend of auctions dedicated solely to the superb, self-taught art collection of …
