The Google Arts & Culture app is a free download full of creative art-based activities like scavenger hunts, mazes, virtual tours and more. You can explore museum collections from around the world and see thousands of artworks in very high resolution. You can also have fun with Art Transfer. Once in the app, click on […]
Read more "Google Arts & Culture App"With travel restrictions in effect and social distancing the new norm, art institutions around the globe are closing to the disappoint of a multitude of art enthusiasts. Blockbuster exhibitions years in the making have been cancelled or postponed with no plans to extend show runs or reschedule. In addition, parents are being thrust into the […]
Read more "Virtual Art Museum & Historic Site Tours"How does the writer of a nerdy art blog respond to yesterday’s events in Paris? Honestly… I don’t know. I don’t even know how to process such a thing. I am grateful no lives were lost. I am reading multiple reports of the artwork that was saved. The images of Parisians kneeling before the burning […]
Read more "Notre Dame"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 – […]
Read more "Body Snatchers"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 […]
Read more "Women Manuscript Illuminators"If you are in the Central Florida area, I hope you will join me Wednesday, August 2nd for the opening of the “Where in the World?” Art Show at Dandelion Communitea Cafe. Dandelion is a beacon of light to our Orlando community. They host multiple art shows every year and they make and serve the […]
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The Wandering Art Historian 