The Historyscoper's Arts Watch Blog

Who’s the Real Ideologue? On Jordan Peterson’s Communist Art Collection

2025-01-13T08:18:00.000-08:00

https://www.frieze.com/article/whos-real-ideologue-jordan-petersons-communist-art-collection

“If you identify with a particular religion, you’re negating someone else’s”: Laura Marling on identity, the art world and her new electric sound

2015-03-21T16:04:00.002-07:00

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/20/if_you_identify_with_a_particular_religion_you%E2%80%99re_negating_someone_else%E2%80%99s_laura_marling_on_identity_the_art_world_and_her_new_electric_sound/

How Did Jesus Get to be So Hot? Where Popular Images of Jesus Actually Came From

2015-03-17T21:08:00.002-07:00

http://valerietarico.com/2015/03/15/how-did-jesus-get-to-be-so-hot-where-popular-images-of-jesus-actually-came-from/

University of Missouri sticks it to a Muslim student whining about film ‘American Sniper’ on campus

2015-03-16T20:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/03/16/university-of-missouri-sticks-it-to-a-muslim-student-whining-about-film-american-sniper-on-campus/

Bacterial Paintings? New Art Uses Tiny Life Forms

2015-03-16T20:44:00.002-07:00

http://www.livescience.com/50143-art-uses-living-things.html?cmpid=559192

10 Paintings With Hidden Meanings After revelations that an artist hid a Monica Lewinsky reference in an official portrait of Bill Clinton, Mark Hudson lists 10 more paintings with secrets By Mark Hudson

2015-03-06T13:51:00.002-08:00

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/no_author/its-not-just-clintons-official-portrait/

Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation makes a dramatic debut in Kuwait

2015-01-19T19:00:00.002-08:00

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/art/sharjahs-barjeel-art-foundation-makes-a-dramatic-debut-in-kuwait

Madame Cézanne: The Case of the Miserable Muse

2015-01-07T19:39:00.000-08:00

http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/madame-cezanne-the-case-of-the-miserable-muse

Medellín's Casa Tres Patios, a Space Where Modern Art Can Flourish

2014-12-30T10:48:00.002-08:00

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/12/27/medellins-casa-tres-patios-a-space-where-modern-art-can-flourish/

The Science of Awe and Beauty (video)

2014-12-22T07:10:00.000-08:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sECsiI8_Hss

Dubai-based artist Marwan Shakarchi’s cloud is all about the silver lining

2014-12-22T07:08:00.002-08:00

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/artists/dubai-based-artist-marwan-shakarchis-cloud-is-all-about-the-silver-lining

Picturing Mary: Yesterday and Today

2014-12-21T08:26:00.002-08:00

http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/picturing-mary-yesterday-and-today

Gillian Welch: “People make art to deal with the gnarliest, most painful events”

2014-12-04T19:33:00.002-08:00

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/03/gillian_welch_people_make_art_to_deal_with_the_gnarliest_most_painful_events/

Japanese vagina artist arrested again for kayak modeled on her genitalia

2014-12-03T14:29:00.002-08:00

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/03/japanese_vagina_artist_arrested_again_for_kayak_modeled_on_her_genitalia/

How Peter Blume Painted His Personal Reality of Hope

2014-11-30T16:28:00.000-08:00

http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/how-peter-blume-painted-his-personal-reality-of-hope

Art Heals You

2014-11-29T18:17:00.001-08:00

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/04/12/art-heals-you/

Jackson Pollock's Art Teaches Physicists About Fluid Dynamics

2014-11-28T19:38:00.002-08:00

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/jackson-pollocks-art-teaches-physicists-about-fluid-dynamics

Modern, surrealist art auction in London expected to fetch $100M

2014-11-28T07:09:00.001-08:00

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/185330/

William Glackens: Forgotten Father of American Modernism?

2014-11-26T20:33:00.000-08:00

http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/william-glackens-forgotten-father-of-american-modernism

Moving Targets: The Invisible Hand of Hans Haacke

2014-11-18T18:19:00.002-08:00

http://hyperallergic.com/162453/moving-targets-the-invisible-hand-of-hans-haacke/

How Prison Changed Egon Schiele’s Portraits for Better or Worse

2014-11-12T19:01:00.002-08:00

http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/how-prison-changed-egon-schieles-portraits-for-better-or-worse

Blind painter Sargy Mann: Painting with inner vision - BBC News (video)

2014-11-12T14:31:00.000-08:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=x9vHwCIaSwM

Avoiding Spoilers Gives You a Superficial Appreciation of Art

2014-11-09T15:16:00.002-08:00

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/avoiding-spoilers-gives-you-a-superficial-appreciation-of-art

This Japanese body art is terrifying and awesome

2014-11-08T07:09:00.002-08:00

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/07/this_japanese_body_is_terrifying_and_amazing/

Abu Dhabi Art offers artists an international crossroads

2014-11-03T19:13:00.002-08:00

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/art/abu-dhabi-art-offers-artists-an-international-crossroads