This hit my inbox today, so I thought that I would share it with my art friends. I hope everyone is staying warm and safe during this ice storm. Perhaps we can arrange a field trip to the Bainbridge Island Art Museum when the weather is better. Enjoy the holidays. […]

At least one art critic thinks it looks better that way. The piece is by abstractionist painter Piet Mondrian. It is unfinished and unsigned. I have actually put arrows with directions on my work to avoid this very problem. Maybe Mondrian just wanted to confuse people. I wonder if he […]

Saturday, September 17, the Smithsonian Magazine sponsors Museum Day with more than 500 participating museums across America. Pick a museum and then get a ticket. It’s free. Museums in the Seattle area include MOHAI, the Museum of History and Industry, and the Museum of Flight. Take a look. There are […]

A great title for an art exhibition! It is at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. “Revisiting three seminal series of exhibitions in Puerto Rico, from 2000 to 2016, that ushered in an independent spirit of art making that is now prevalent in the region.”

“The blazing Romanticism of this gold, green and purple visionary scene belies any misconception that Monet simply painted what he saw or was a relaxed celebrant of leisure. Even the morally fervent Victorian critic Ruskin might have been moved if he’d seen that medieval church glowing on its hilltop in […]

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the national museum of the Netherlands, has a terrific web site.

FROM CLAUDE MONET TO BRIDGET RILEY A writer with The Spokesman-Review in Spokane has written about five artists and particular works of theirs about summer. I always love learning about artists and their work. Take a look. Explore.

“IN THE SPIRIT OF CELEBRATING OVERLOOKED CAREERS…” A museum on the southern coast of Maine, in the small enclave called Ogunquit, is hosting a small exhibition of work by women artists dating from the first half of the twentieth century. Its title — “Remember the Ladies” — is a phrase […]