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Mounting an exhibition showcasing the work of four artists can most often pose at least one significant challenge: how to get the works to relate to one another. The task

Dust my eyes with myriad stars! foretold a long dead poet this week, Many ideas hung on those words but the galaxy held another. My youngest crept into ...

The grassroots organization Operation Hotel Sanity has more than 90 volunteers helping to bring home cooked meals to individuals staying in hotels as they find new homes a month after the Marshall Fire.

The grassroots organization Operation Hotel Sanity has more than 90 volunteers helping to bring home cooked meals to individuals staying in hotels as they find new homes a month after the Marshall Fire.

Like Vincent Van Gogh|Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) favored subjective expression and rejected objective representation. Gauguin wrote with dejecti...

Théodore Géricault took for this contemporary subject the tragedy of the survivors of the French|French ship Medusa. It had founder|foundered off the ...

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was born into the ranks of the bourgeoisie|Parisian bourgeoisie on January 29, 1832. His Mother, Eugenie-Desir...

The Sleeping Gypsy1897 Henri Rousseau Oil on canvas A young gypsy, decked out in a striped coat of many colours|dress of many colors, sleeps in the sand...

Vignette Fri Jul 07 2000 at 19:25:11 The earliest part of the sixteenth century has been called the golden age of printing, the development of engraving lending a hand and the subsequent improvement in book illustration, with engraved or decorated title-pages as well as vignettes or headpieces or tailpieces in the text. As a “decorative design” they first appeared in 1751. The word was first borrowed from the diminutive of the Old French word vigne for vineyard and later became the Fren...