Art and movie

A reader very kindly sent a question along asking about Robert Rauschenberg's word "combines" and it served the proverbial two birds, one stone purpose. First, we shared a chuckle...

by Stan Parchin Study for the Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1481), a perspectival study for the unfinished painting of the same subject by Italian High Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci...

To accompany each of the quarterly special exhibitions listings, Stan Parchin typically selects a "teaser" gallery of one image apiece from nine shows. He, I suspect, has fun doing this...

The Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting exhibition currently on view at The Frick Collection sounds a treat. As Stan Parchin reports in his review, "Special exhibitions don't always...

The Toyists have been busy making inroads into art history for the past fourteen years - so much so that I'm kicking myself for not meeting up with them sooner....

by Stan Parchin The Public Broadcasting Service will present two wonderful documentaries this holiday season: Picturing Mary and Annie Leibovitz. Picturing Mary is an hour-long film that chronicles the imagery of the...

Italy Lends Boston Roman Statue, Afghan Treasures on Display in Paris and More by Stan Parchin The cooperation of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in returning 13 works of classical antiquity to...

Whenever Robert Espino tells me he's got a special event to go and shoot for About Art History, I brace myself for that which comes next. Within 48 hours I...

Manet at Getty Museum, Leibovitz Gets Extended Hours, Eakins Reprieve, Munch Damage and More By Stan Parchin The J. Paul Getty Museum announced on December 12, 2006 that London's Courtauld Institute of Art...

I gave up on New Year's resolutions a long time ago when coming to feel that they're just additional guilt side trips in an already crowded itinerary. As 2006 draws...