art

Wood on the Downs

Wood On The Downs After Paul Nash by Martin Malone   We have been here before. Uffington, Hackpen, Grim’s Ditch,…

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Art and Our Times

How will artists and writers portray this Trumpian time of disillusion, delusion and deception in which we now live? All…

8 years ago

About Suffering They Were Never Wrong

About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…

8 years ago

Siracusa: “My sins are all mortal.”

Caravaggio is one of the bad boys in the history of art with a biography so outlandish it reads like…

8 years ago

Palermo: No Surface Left Unadorned

The Palatine Chapel is one of those must-see places if ever you have the chance.  It was commissioned by the…

8 years ago

Palermo: The Art of Learning

The Gallery of Modern Art is located inside the restored 15th century convent of Sant'Anna and has many works of…

8 years ago

Palermo: Markets and Mosaics

Palermo has three outdoor markets and we managed to hit all of them. Two we found by design while foraging…

8 years ago

Palermo 2016 into 2017

On the back-end of bronchitis I've been hacking, wheezing and coughing my way through Palermo with the long-suffering travel mate.…

8 years ago

Degenerate Art and the New Regime in Washington

There's a great exhibit on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC:  Max Beckmann in New York It highlights…

8 years ago

In Celebration of Labor Day

In celebration of Labor Day: It's Steel Workers 1939 by Philo B Ruggles and his brother John Ruggles, a study for…

8 years ago

1915 and The Midnight of the Nations

On Christmas Day 1915 David Lloyd George the former radical liberal,then Minister of Munitions and soon to be Prime Minister…

9 years ago

Winter Solstice

The winter solstice - the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The earth - tilted away from the sun…

9 years ago

Out and About

We had some glorious fall days last week (as well as some much-needed rain).  It was perfect weather for the…

9 years ago

A Portrait of Us

Building community means getting to know each other. And that means time. Last week we had the first ASA (all-school-activity)…

9 years ago

Art is Messy, Team Building is Fun

Great to see these video tweets yesterday. Thanks Jenn and Jill. Making art is messy! @PoughkeepsieDay pic.twitter.com/EL9jE1nx5q— Jennifer Jordan (@artteacherjenn)…

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