Art News Headlines: February 19, 2011
Tags/ Posted by Laura Lawsonkiss me like a cab driver all fury and fumes consider the meter its hard click we've crossed into another borough all heart-stoppedcontinue reading this poem
In the news: “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt topping the chart for most romantic painting; Egypt to reopen historical sites; Jasper Johns receives Presidential Medal of Freedom; Controversial artist Tracey Emin announces show in collaboration with late French artist Louise Bourgeois; and Caravaggio’s works exhibiting in Rome at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza church.
Art News Headlines: February 13, 2011
Tags/ Posted by Laura LawsonThe Empress wanders long lanes of night oak. She looks up from the portrait, west, into the lowering lids of buttercup. From "Turifumy of Butterfly Breathing - after Anne Siems"continue reading this poem
Ancient mummies on the “Secrets of the Silk Road” exhibit at The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Maria Altamann, a Jewish refugee who fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings, died at age 94; Newark Museum now exhibiting “Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890′s to the Present”; portrait of an Afghan woman won the World Press Photo award for 2010; and a Paris exhibition aims to restore Cranach’s image.
Escape Into Life: Issue No.29
Tags/ Posted by Stacy EricsonIt was good to wake this morning, knowing nothing except there was a river, lacquered blue, streaked with light,continue reading this poem
Mysteries of Mona Lisa and poetic images in word and video — sit by the fire with the latest Escape Into Life jewels!
Art News Headlines: December 17, 2010
Tags/ Posted by Laura LawsonI am a garden of earthly delights. I am the apple you would fall for a thousand times. I am the apricot you would die for.continue reading this poem
In the news: Ludovico Carracci’s ‘The Vision of Saint Francis’ acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago; New ‘Art Exchange’, the first stock exchange for art; Bonhams to auction Eric Clapton’s guitars and amps; European Commission to charge high tax on video and light works at UK galleries and auction houses; Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer celebrating 103 years by opening museum: The Oscar Niemeyer Foundation outside Rio de Janeiro.
