Kusama Dots Red

It has been quite a while since I posted artwork to the blog and I am so happy to share some new pieces over the coming weeks. After an artistic dry spell that lasted a few months, inspiration came all at once and I couldn’t paint fast enough! The painting on the far right of […]

The Goldfinch

A few months ago I went in search of books that could potentially be included in my summer series, the Art Lovers Books Club, at the Winter Garden Art Association. I asked people who attended my events and I requested recommendations on social media. Thankfully, I received a ton of suggestions and Donna Tartt’s The […]

Enrico David at the MCA

The Wandering Art Historian has returned! If you haven’t seen any blog posts as of late, know that I spent a bit of time away from the blog, wandering around the Windy City. This was my second visit in less than a year and I can assure you… Chicago is a city FULL of ART! […]

“Forbidden Literature” by Rene Magritte

Please visit the ArtScene Press blog to read my article on the Magritte & Dali exhibit currently on view at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL! Here is a brief excerpt… Theatrically curated, the artwork is hung on red walls, with each of the galleries delineated by lush red velvet curtains. Except for a […]

Magritte & Dali

In preparation for my upcoming lecture on Rene Magritte, I visited The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL to view their current exhibition Magritte & Dali. I won’t go into too much detail here on the blog about what this exhibition entails for two reasons: 1. I will be writing an article about the exhibition […]

At Eternity’s Gate

I missed “At Eternity’s Gate” when it was in theaters last fall, but it was just released on Blu-ray and I am completely in awe. It is a work of art. It is a film by a painter (Julian Schnabel), about a painter (Vincent van Gogh) and it is unbelievable to me that it has […]

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

I recently partnered with the Tildenville Marketplace in Oakland, FL for a workshop titled Rediscovering the Masters: Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. The hope was to create a unique take on the popular “paint-and-sip” events and allow our guest the freedom to create their own work of art inspired by a “master artist” from art history. For […]

Body Snatchers

I am pleased to share my most recent article for ArtScene Press! The Cornell Fine Arts Museum on the campus of Rollins College has a number of art exhibits concurrently on view in different galleries throughout the museum. I chose to focus on a small, but powerful exhibition – Body Snatchers: Death in Culture – […]

Women Manuscript Illuminators

A recent scientific discovery proves that some Medieval manuscript illuminators were women. Last month, a German woman’s body dated ca. 1100 AD was exhumed and inspected. Blue particles were found in the mouth of the corpse and those particles were determined to be lapis lazuli. Lapis lazuli came from what is now Afghanistan which was […]

Velvet Buzzsaw

“Velvet Buzzsaw” is the newest film from the writer and director of “Nightcrawler,” Dan Gilroy. It debuted on Netflix on February 1st and it centers around a group of art world colleagues as they discover the work of a recently deceased outsider artist. That is the very brief, no spoilers description of a film that […]