Peoples, deities and the objects they made: notes on the cultures behind the collection.
It’s a big world filled with countless things to collect. People collect airsickness bags and hotel soaps, toasters and snow globes, typewriters, skeleton keys, and paper labels from old fruit crates. There…
Dissect a Gail Potocki painting and you’ll discover it has been built twice. First comes the sanity: a drawing, typically worked out at full scale, line by line, until the composition carries…
Long before any painter made a non-objective mark on canvas, the Earth was making abstract art. Rivers braided silt into ribbons of ochre and slate. Wind and water combed black sand into…
Long before the compass guided a ship, it pointed to “home.” In the context of Feng Shui, the Chinese art of placing objects to harmonize with the environment, home meant the correct…
Gansu Province, a long, narrow corridor in northwestern China, has for centuries served as a crossroads of Han Chinese, Tibetan, Mongol, and Central Asian cultures. Stretching along the historic Hexi Corridor of…
Gansu Province occupies a long, narrow band of northwestern China, stretching from the upper reaches of the Yellow River near Lanzhou to the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Its defining feature is…
Brian Sindler is an award-winning American artist whose works embody the essence of landscape painting. They have been called landscape renditions because they are not intended as exact renderings. Sindler grew up…
The world watched in horror and disbelief as Notre Dame burned. The flames left an imperishable desire to rebuild this iconic structure. This image of Notre Dame was…
Bob Meyer, the Chicago-bred artist, actor, director and writer who now lives in a village outside Paris near Monet’s Giverny gardens (and has installed his studio in an…
This blog presents a quick guide to interpreting and understanding Buddhist implements and symbols.
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