A documentary on the friendship between Paul Gauguin & Vincent van Gogh

July 11, 2021 at 3:10 am

AND, FOR A TIME, ROOMMATES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rTfLkS2l8

Rembrandt or Bill Murray?

June 21, 2021 at 6:43 am

Why Not Both!? People are using actor Bill Murray’s face to recreate classic paintings.

“They are women who have fallen out of our history books.”

June 4, 2021 at 8:52 am

AN EXHIBITION IN DUBLIN, IRELAND From building hospitals to caring for the homeless, these are the untold stories of the wives of the men who governed Ireland before independence from Britain. Portraits of the women are on exhibit at Dublin Castle.

Forgotten women artists

May 18, 2021 at 12:37 pm

The wonderful and hard-working Ghaddra sent me this. It is about forgotten women artists, a series by the Journal of Art in Society. In this case, the focus is on a woman named Marie-Gabrielle Capet. Marie-Gabrielle Capet, who painted the self-portrait to the left in 1783 or 1784, was a […]

Paulette paints Jimi Hendrix

March 30, 2021 at 11:59 am

“This is a painting I made in a painting-from-a-photograph class with Pamm Hanson. I am a fan of Jimi Hendrix since I was a teenager. I have been trying to draw and paint his likeness for close to 50 years with no success. I learned a lot in this class […]

Feathers of cobalt blue

February 23, 2021 at 7:40 pm

Art during Isolation

February 19, 2021 at 9:57 pm

“WE NEED ART AND ART NEEDS US” How much art exposure do you need everyday to reduce stress and anxiety? How can we use art as a form of meditation? Is the pandemic fostering a new generation of artists? This month on the ArtsFund blog, the president and CEO of Sound, […]