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...

From the "Nothing's Too Weird That Some Artist Won't Do It" files come two culinary items. In Nauseous Item the First, British Performance artist Mark McGowan has eaten a swan....

Surely this has happened to most of us: about to embark on a journey, a friend flags us down at the last minute and insists that, since we are...

About Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has blinded me with science in an article chock-full of facts on tree rings and culture, also known as dendrochronology. She explains what this is,...

Restoration Dramas: Canterbury, Ghiberti, Leonardo and More By Stan Parchin As recently reported in The Times of London, England's Canterbury Cathedral has unfortunately fallen into disrepair. This magnificent monument, suffering from the...

Sotheby's has labeled some lots featured in two future sales a "Banksy Bonanza." Permit me to scratch my head a moment; I'm not certain if we, the art loving/buying...

A statement issued jointly by the Press Departments of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Toledo Museum of Art announced that the Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)...

Stan Parchin has reviewed the special exhibition Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art until September 3, 2007,...

The full title of this very special special exhibition, at least in its U.S. incarnation, is The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1800-1920. You're not...

Yale, Eakins, Tutankhamun and Rome By Stan Parchin The iconic main building of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut reopened to the public on December 10, 2006. The glass,...