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  • Brooklyn Museum on Google Art Project

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    The Brooklyn Museum, as I reported back in 2010, is a terrific and underrated museum of art and artifacts that exists in the shadow of larger and better known museums in Manhattan. The museum’s collection contains superb examples of American and European painting, some of which you can now view online in glorious detail by…

  • Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered at NRM

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    Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, the excellent exhibition about the grand master of American illustration that was organized by the Delaware Art Museum and was on view there earlier this year, has moved to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where it will be on display until October 28, 2012. Unfortunately, the NRM apparently…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo

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    “Allegory of the Planets and Continents” by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Preparatory painting for the decoration of the large staircase ceiling of the Residenz of Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and zoom or download. If you download, in your image editor, rotate the image to see…

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2012

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    Each year five teams of students from the graduating class of the Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris create short animations that are used as introductions to each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation, which is happening this week. This year’s entries appear to have a theme relating…

  • Tony DiTerlizzi’s WondLa

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    Tony DiTerlizzi is an illustrator and author who is probably best known as the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles. In addition he has been the illustrator and at times author of a number of other children’s books. His latest project is as the author and illustrator of The Search for WondLa and A Hero for…

  • Vermeer’s “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” restored

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    We have only thirty four, perhaps thirty five, acknowledged paintings by the remarkable 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, so when one of his works is restored, revealing subtlties of color and detail not seen in centuries, it’s an occasion. It’s particularly noteworthy when the painting is one of Vermeer’s most beautiful and subtle works.…