NEW YORK — What does “home” mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many. “Home isn’t always a place of comfort. Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of…
A painting thatâs more than 100 years old and once hung in a Kimmswick restaurant before being stored in various buildings around the river town has found a home. The piece, called âEarly Days on the Mississippi River,â is now hanging in the Kimmswick Historical Society museum, 6000 Third Ave. It was painted in 1914…
French police on Saturday arrested a climate activist who staged a protest attack on a priceless Claude Monet painting at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, prosecutors said. The woman stuck a red sheet to the “Coquelicots” (Poppy Field) impressionist work and then glued her hands to the wall before she was detained, police said. A…
In the world of art and design are two schools of thought. On one side are those who create or sell art. Artists and gallery owners, for instance, tend to promote the idea if you love a piece, buy it. You will always find a place for it. Interior designers, on the other hand, look…
Shingles on a roof may be unremarkable to most. But to painters in Key West, they’re an opportunity to express the island’s deep history through artwork. To commemorate the 79th anniversary of former President Harry S. Truman taking office, staff at the Truman Little White House in Key West put on an outdoor painting event….
LANCASTER, Pa . â On a recent Sunday afternoon, I was one of 36 would-be Rembrandts gathered in the large studio of the Painting with a Twist store on Centerville Road, just outside Lancaster. Each of us sat before a blank canvas mounted on a tabletop easel. We had three brushes each, plus paper plates…
Ohne jene Kunst würden wir Nichts als Vordergrund sein und ganz und gar im Banne jener Optik leben, welche das Nächste und Gemeinste als ungeheuer gross und als die Wirklichkeit an sich erscheinen lässt. Without art we would be nothing but foreground and would live entirely under the spell of that perspective which makes what…
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JERUSALEM, Nov 12 (Reuters) – The red paint was used by chance, but it has taken on a grim significance. It was what was on hand when Ziva Jelin painted “Curving Road” in 2010, a moody landscape of empty asphalt leading to Kibbutz Be’eri, in the southern Israeli countryside, her home. Just out of the…
