This Art Exhibit Sends You To Spain On American Soil
February 19, 2021
It seems somehow fitting, both as this publication’s resident art critic and as a half-Spaniard, that the first exhibition I’ve been able to visit and write about since COVID-19 lockdowns explores the phenomenon of Americans traveling to Spain: something I’ve been prevented from doing for nearly a year now.
Whether you’re primarily interested in simply looking at beautiful works of art, or if you care to wade into the somewhat unexplored waters of Spain’s influence on American art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, “Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920,” which opened at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk this past weekend, and will later head to the Milwaukee Art Museum this summer, is a terrific show. The exhibition proved to be an all-too-brief reunion with something that has been denied to me for lo these many months of lockdowns and travel bans, and which I very much need t
What We Know About The Junapani Stone Circles
The Junapani stone circles are located about 10 kilometres northwest of the city of Nagpur in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The stone circles consist of boulders. Most are true circles, but some are more oblong. The boulders are basalt and appear to have been transported from a considerable distance.
The stone circles are sepulchral, meaning that they mark burial places. The deceased were probably buried within the stone circles and covered with stony material. There are some circles that were not covered with material and appear to be circles that were constructed for a clan or family burial, which were ultimately left unused. There are over 150 stone circles in India, which were probably constructed between 1000 BC and about 300 AD.
Why Wild, Wonderful Majolica Is Exactly What You Should Be Collecting Right Now
It s like taking a fantastical ride down a Victorian rabbit hole. Meg Lukens Noonan Courtesy of Linda Horn
In frock coats and hoop skirts, eager throngs packed London’s Crystal Palace, a cavernous glass-and-iron hall, to view the wonders of industry and design on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Among the marvels at that first-ever world’s fair (folding pianos, expanding hearses, and giant steam-powered hammers) were several pieces of colorful pottery produced by Minton & Co., one of England’s leading ceramics manufacturers. Herbert Minton’s vivid lead-based glazes and inventive three-dimensional designs stood in dazzling contrast to the drab houseware widely used in middle-class homes at the time. That it was also affordable made the luminous earthenware soon to be known as