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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Sketch of conductor, attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon, 1840. Art Institute of Chicago, Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. In 1557 the legal printer Richard Tottel published an auspicious volume of English poetry: Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other, or as Thomas Warton, who wrote the first modern literary history in the late eighteenth century, called it, “the first printed miscellany of Engli...

$16.80 Francis has recently proclaimed this "The Year of Saint Joseph." Now is as good a time as ever to look at art from the perspective of labor. We can turn to Marxist theory to help inform our visual imagination — rooting it in the charism of the working class. John Molyneuxs new book The Dialectics of Art offers a solid Marxist framework for the discerning viewer. Molyneux is a British socialist, activist and writer, writing from outside of the academy without a specif...

In 1524 Pope Clement VII ordered a test of an antidote oil created by surgeon Gregorio Caravita. A test subject took a dose of poison in front of a small crowd of invited personages. In both of the antidote’s two trials, apothecaries provided the poison—a good quantity of a deadly aconite called napellus in the first test, arsenic in the second. Although a pharmacist was present, the papal physician, Paolo Giovio, oversaw the trial. Pope Clement commanded that the antidote be tried on “co...

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night, June 1889 (Photo by Art Images via Getty Images). Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA While the pandemic has forced many to stay home, museums across the United States are bringing their world-famous collections online for anyone to view. The public response has been enormous. American tech company Google recently reported its most searched terms of 2020, and the second most popular search after the word “virtual” was “ Here are five popular art exhibit...

Woman Reading a Letter, by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1663. Rijksmuseum. Italians lived in some of the most medically sophisticated cities and states in early modern Europe, and were remarkably health literate. Abortion was a feature of the medical landscape. Healers at all levels of the medical establishment provided women and men with materials and services to terminate pregnancies and with health care afterward. But in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this was becoming more contentious. So...

2020 was the year of ‘traveling from home.’ These were our 10 favorite ways. Natalie Compton, Hannah Sampson, Shannon McMahon © María Alconada Brooks/The Washington Post Some people accepted that 2020 would be a year of no traveling. Others channeled that frustration into pandemic projects that, no, didn’t fully capture the essence of travel but brought some comfort to those locked down with wanderlust. For better or worse, 2020 was the year for “traveling” fro...

The following is the substance of the articles, as taken from the pirates’ own informations. (1) Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions or strong liquors at any time seized, and use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity make it necessary for the good of all to vote a retrenchment. (2) Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes, because they were on these occasions allowed a shift of clothes. But if they defrauded the company to...

Our Chief Danger The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress. Liberty Bell Brought to Allentown (detail from mural study for Allentown, Pennsylvania Post Office), by Gifford Beal, 1938. Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the General Services Administration, 1974. On the morning of May 29, 1787, in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia, opened the meeting that would become ...