Category Archive: Art & Artists

Frida’s Chic
I should start a separate category for all the museum shows I wished I could have seen but didn’t. Here’s another: Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico. Of course, every fashion lover knows that Frida Kahlo…

Dark Matter
I loved reading about French photographer Thierry Cohen’s images of the starry skies over cities like San Francisco and Tokyo minus the light pollution we’ve added to them. Nice to remember that the stars are still there, even if we…

Tesla Gets His Due
Sound the trumpets! The wonderful artist who created the illustrations for Encyclopedia of the Exquisite has a wonderful new project in the works—a non-fiction graphic novel called “Nikola Tesla: Inventor, page Visionary and Unsung Scientific Genius.” You can check out…

Skying
Over a two year span, beginning in 1820 and culminating in the summer of 1822 when he completed as many as 50 cloud studies, English painter John Constable had his eyes on the sky over Hampstead. Most studies were…
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