Month: March 2020
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A list of art podcast lists
I haven’t listened to enough art podcasts to give many first hand reports, so I offer you a list of lists of art podcasts, many of which give good capsule descriptions of the podcasts. Yes, there is a good bit of overlap between the lists, but you should be able to find something that suits…
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Guide to Virtual Museum Resources
The Museum Computer Network (MCN) has published a guide to online virtual museums and related resources: The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections, that should provide art lovers who are at home with time to browse a cornucopia of time sinks. Divided into sections like “Portals”, “Virtual Tours / Online Exhibits”,…
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What I Want You to See, by Catherine Linka
I don’t often review novels on Lines and Colors, but when I received a review copy of Catherine Linka’s What I Want You to See, I was intrigued. Set in the environment of a competitive art school, the novel is both a mystery and the personal story of a promising art student. Sabine Reyes is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Nicolas Poussin’s Landscape with a Calm
Landscape with a Calm, Nicolas Poussin, oil on canvas, roughly 38 x 51 inches (97 x 131 cm). Original is in the Getty Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Among other subjects, French…
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Monet’s Gare Saint-Lazare series
Claude Monet painted several series of paintings on particular subjects — like the haystack series, poplars, water lilies and the facade of the Rouen Cathedral — revisiting the same subject multiple times in different lighting and atmospheric conditions. The first of these series was of the Gare Saint-Lazare, one the large railway terminals in Paris.…