The apple originated in the wild. But thousands of varieties have been cultivated over the centuries – and their many associations have been taken up by artists with relish. The apple can mean just about anything: temptation and the fall, innocence and knowledge, immortality and death, love and sexuality, fertility and decay. No wonder it’s provided such a windfall for artists – from Greek vase painters to Pop artists.
I am part of the team behind ‘Apples & People’, an online programme which explores different aspects of humanity’s connection to the history, science and culture of the apple. Over the next 18 months illustrated apple stories will be released online, centred on an Apple World Map that we’ve commissioned from the artist Helen Cann. Down the line we’ll also stage exhibitions in the apple-growing county of Herefordshire. But in the meantime, here are eight great art-historical apples to get your teeth into.
Being at the Whitney is a great thing Bridgeport photographer Adger Cowans says
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FacebookTwitterEmail Momma s Ohio Piano by Adger Cowans.Courtesy of Adger Cowans and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / Contributed photo
A new exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrates a group of 14 mostly amateur photographers who in the early 1960s in Harlem founded what came to be called the Kamoinge Collective, determined to remake the image of Black America.
Unique among them is Bridgeport’s own Adger Cowans. Then the group’s lone professional with art school training, Cowans has lived in the Read’s Artspace Building since 2006 and at age 84 remains very active.
CINCINNATIâ An exhibition of
41 evocative paintings sparked an art world commotion in the late 1970s. Now, a reconstruction of the exhibition is coming to the Cincinnati Art Museum.
will be on view from March 12âJuly 11.
Not often does the chance come along to revisit a cultural event from our past and interpret it anew.
With the generous gift of intrepid art collectors Ronnie Levinson Shore and John Shore, the Cincinnati Art Museum has acquired 40 of the 41 paintings from the original
American Painting: The Eighties exhibition.
When the show debuted at New York Universityâs Grey Gallery in 1979, it touched off a critical and spirited debate about the nature and direction of painting in America.
Friday, 27 November 2020
Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
The aim of the following piece is simply to share some interesting accounts of the tin-trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly one written in Arabic and another in Persian. Taken together, these two accounts suggest that tin from southwestern England (
i.e. Cornwall and Devon) was exported via southern France to both Egypt and ultimately Iran in this period, with it being used by potters in the latter area to make tin-opacified ceramic glazes.
Nine Black History Month events to participate in this February
While many local celebrations might not be happening in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various organizations in Cincinnati are honoring Black history.
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CINCINNATI â February is Black History Month.
And while many local celebrations might not be happening in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various organizations in Cincinnati are honoring Black history.
Here are nine events to participate in throughout the month:
Letâs Talk: You Have the Right to Remain Silent: 10 a.m. Saturday. Online Forum. Free. The Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra teamed up to offer this virtual discussion focused on examining the social realities tied to You Have the Right to Remain Silent, a musical piece that derives its inspiration from the Miranda Rights warning. Christopher Miller, a senior director at the Freedom Cente