Welcome to Potentials of Art
A glimpse into marvelous perspectives of Art
by many fine writers.
History’s Selfies: Looking at Artists Looking at Themselves
Article by Roger Catlin, December 2018 / National Portrait Gallery closes out 50-year anniversary celebration after widening the view to include more women, diverse backgrounds and emerging media / Artists have been doing self-portraits for centuries, looking deeply,...
Thailand Is Ramping Up Efforts to Recover Cultural Heritage From US Museums, Including the Met
Written by: Javier Pes, November / 2018 / A sculpture the Met bought more than 50 years ago tops the kingdom’s most-wanted list. Thailand has stepped up its efforts to reclaim bronze and stone sculptures that have been in US museum collections for decades. The...
Charles White Inspired Some of Today’s Most Famous Artists. Now, Museums and the Market Are Finally Giving Him His Due
Written by Eileen Kinsella / 2018 / When Charles White died in 1979 at age 61, he was reasonably famous. His work was in 49 museums, he had won 39 awards, and he had been the subject of 48 books and 53 one-man shows. The artist Benny Andrews said in his obituary that...
Michelangelo: A Mixture of True Talent Meeting Great Luck and Perseverance
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...
Historian Identifies Subject of Van Gogh’s “Gardener”
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...
Who Owns Your Tattoo? Maybe Not You
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...
Why does the art of Ancient Greece still shape our world? (from BBC timeline)
Consultant / Dr Peter Stewart University of Oxford / Posted From BBC / The Midas touch? For thousands of years the art of the ancient Greeks has been held up as the yardstick by which later art is judged. It has shaped our ideas of what perfection should...
NAOSHIMA, THE NEW CONTEMPORARY ART TEMPLE
Written by: Anonyme - Paris / As Vatican City is a religion-dedicated territory, Naoshima is the first art-dedicated territory. A fisher island in the Seto Sea. Naoshima is a small island in the Seto sea, the inner sea of Japan separating three of the main...
Why Art Has the Power to Change the World
Written by Olafur Eliasson / produced by The Huffington Post and The World Economic Forum / One of the great challenges today is that we often feel untouched by the problems of others and by global issues like climate change, even when we could easily do something to...
Ending a Seven-Year Dispute, a US Court Rules That Artists Aren’t Entitled to Royalties for Artworks Resold at Auction
Written by Eileen Kinsella, July 2018 / The Ninth Circuit ruled that US Copyright law trumps a California law requiring payment of royalties to artists./ Artists hoping to get paid when their work sells for millions of dollars at auction may be out of luck—at least in...
How a Female-Led Art Restoration Movement in Florence Is Reshaping the Canon
Written by Kate Brown, July 2018 / The organization Advancing Women Artists is at the fore of finding forgotten female Masters like Plautilla Nelli./ Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to ask the right question. That is exactly what Jane Fortune did on a visit to...
Monumental Sculpture Celebrates the Strength of Cuban Women
By Jessica Stewart / Cuban sculptor and professor Rafael San Juan celebrates the spirit of Cuban women in Primavera. His monumental sculpture, which was created for the 2015 Havana Biennial, is a study in movement and sensuality inspired by dancers from the Cuban...