Showing posts with label history of art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of art. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2026

The 2026 World’s Fair of Money

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For the first time since 2019, I attended the annual summer convention of the American Numismatic Association, branded as The World’s Fair o...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Cleveland, Ohio, and the Gates of Argonath

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"Two pairs of entrance pylons on both the west and east ends of the Hope Memorial Bridge (formerly the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge) have fig...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN

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Canon exists. Once you stray from canon, you go from a slippery slope to a  reductio ad absurdum in which all you have is an em...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Romantic Realism

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Romantic Realism is a school of aesthetics that developed as a consequence of the works of Ayn Rand. Rand saw herself (paraphrasing) as ...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

A Chronology of Recent Historical Periods

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We like our history neat. The western Roman empire ended on September 4, 476, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus and declared himself ki...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

"Painted Papers" Offers Artisan Wraps

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We met Debra Flanagan at our neighborhood Whole Foods when she gave us an origami turkey that she made from one of her handcrafted wrapping...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Shooting the Roadhouse Relics Gallery

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Roadhouse Relics is the Austin, Texas, studio and gallery where neon artist Todd Sanders crafts his vintage-style designs using durable mode...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Neal Adams at Dragons Lair

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Neal Adams was in town for Comic Con , signing his art at our favorite comics and fantasy store Dragons Lair .  If you are not a fan of com...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Raymond Loewy

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Today's Google Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design.   Raymond Loewy is called “t...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Industrial Medals a Currency of Fame

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Most people call it “coin collecting” but numismatics is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of money. That includes money-...