by News | Nov 1, 2019 | Birdie Girl
One of the most significant clashes of art and law in history. From The Legal Palette, An Art Law Blog, March 23/ Reprinted here. Modern Art: 1900-1960 Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1926, polished bronze, on marble and wood base, 115 1/4 in....
by News | May 12, 2019 | Birdie Girl
Written by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye (Copyright ® 1988)/ Reprinted 2019 / Artists throughout history have drawn inspiration from the birds. Part-bird, part-human forms have frequently been used to depict either supernatural phenomena or...
by News | Mar 13, 2019 | Birdie Girl
Written by By Ferris Jabr / The New York Times / The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can’t be explained by natural selection alone — so how did it come to be? A male flame bowerbird is a creature of incandescent beauty. The hue of his...
by News | Feb 5, 2019 | Birdie Girl
From Fine Art Connoisseur /“Regal Bearing: Bird Portraiture” is on view September 4, 2018, through August 11, 2019, at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (Wausau, Wisconsin)/ Above photo: Rose Tanner, “Bee Curious,” 2017, oil Cindy House, “Autumnal Colors,” 2018, pastel...
by News | Dec 18, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Over the course of Chinese painting, the three main subjects have been landscapes, birds-and-flowers, and figures. Flower painting, previously associated chiefly with Buddhist art, came into its own as a separate branch of painting in the Five Dynasties (907-960)....
by News | Nov 18, 2018 | Birdie Girl
MNN Exclusive Film / For many of us, spring is an event that arrives quietly. The emergence of bulbs, the subtle shift towards longer days, the welcome return of warm morning breezes. For others, however, spring is announced in a thunderous chorus of hundreds of...
