by News | Oct 12, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, better known as Michelangelo, is one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance period (between the 14th and 16th centuries AD). The Renaissance marked the transition from the Medieval period to the Early Modern...
by News | Sep 30, 2018 | Potentials of Art
The portrait is likely of a day laborer that worked on the grounds of the asylum where the troubled artist stayed near the end of his life. By Jason Daley/ September / 2018 / After Vincent Van Gogh sliced off most of his ear in 1888, his friends and family convinced...
by News | Sep 27, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Think twice before copying Tyson’s tattoo. Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters / By Shontavia Johnson / More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. What could be more intimately a part of you...
by News | Sep 27, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Author: Annie Dell’Aria / In 1957, a 21-year-old art school graduate named Don Featherstone created his second major design for the Massachusetts-based lawn and garden decoration manufacturer Union Products: a three-dimensional plastic pink flamingo propped up...
by News | Sep 15, 2018 | Potentials of Art
Authors: Yasmin Gunaratnam / Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London and Vicki Bell / Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London / The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered not just an...
