[Photo my own]Between the incredible range of portraits currently on view in The Queen Art & Image (Britains National Portrait Gallery) and the photographs included in Queen Elizabeth II by...
[Arnold Machins iconic portrait of Elizabeth II, 1966, via the British Postal Museum and Archive.]I think U.S. coverage of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant begins around 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, J...
The Textile Museum is offering undergrad and grad students, as well as D.C. public school educators, a limited number of scholarships for its 40th annual Fall Symposium. This years presentations and ...
[Ellsworth Kelly, Sunflower, 1957. Watercolor on paper. Private collection © Ellsworth Kelly.]For the third year in a row, Im happy to post a bit of info about the Blue Star Museums initiative. ...
[Images one and two via Ann Carringtons site]On Sunday, June 3, when all the cameras are focused on the Royal Barge as it travels along the Thames, I hope we see some nice close views of artist Ann C...
[Detail images are from V & A curator Rosemary Crills sumptuously illustrated book, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West.] Just as Im attracted to the ethereal quality of James Youngs ...
[Detail, above, and full view below: Le Tapis Moghol as seen in Hali, spring 2009.]On the design library front, one of the biggest mistakes I ever made was not snapping up a copy of Féerie Ind...
[Late-Louis XIV canape from Demiurge.]Maybe I was swayed by some comments my grandmother once made, but I used to think lounging around on the furniture for hours at a time was mainly a 20th-century ...
[Gary Humes official Paralympic poster 2012]With eyes toward London, several contemporary artists have me enthused about this years official Olympic and Paralympic posters. Ive been gravitating to Sa...
[Photo my own]Heres a sampling of whats coming up later this week: Well explore Donna J. Bohanans fascinating new book, Fashion beyond Versailles: Consumption and Design in Seventeenth-Century France...
[My screengrabs are from the Fuller + Roberts video about Burnham Designs window installation.] Todays brief post involves two beach-gravitating blondes with discerning tastes: Doris Duke and Betsy B...
[From the Gettys 2008 exhibition site: Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science. Pictured above is a detail view of Merians circa 1680 hand-colored engraving in The New Book of ...
[Detail view, Mark Catesbys Caribbean Islands, North America, Althea Floridana from the artists Natural History Volume 1. Full image follows below.]Back in January I mentioned that 2012 is...
[Leo Frank, Along the Nile, woodcut printed in colors, 1920s, William P. Carl Fine Prints.] Last year when I stopped by the inaugural High Museum of Art Print Fair, I observed everyone fr...
[Detail: Persimmon Tree, Edo period (1615–1868), late autumn 1816 Sakai Hoitsu (Japanese, 1761–1828) Two-panel screen; ink and color on paper The Metropolitan Museum of Art.]Im guessin...
[Detail view, 19th-century mans coat from Kashgar © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford]The Great Game, in this case, is the historic late-1860s maneuvering between Russia and England to control C...
[Photo by Roger Davies via Architectural Digest]I thought Id already done a guitar-spotting post a couple of years ago. Not music rooms, like Sheryl Crows above (although, its a personal fave),...
[Paper bowl by Yolanda Resendiz and Jesus Renteria is available at MoMAs store.]Remember when Michael and Keith embarked on a shopping adventure in Mexico?[Screengrab from Man Shops Globe, epis...
[Cy Twombly, Peonies, Bassano in Teverina, 1980 Color dry-print, Gagosian Gallery] Ive been coveting this work by Cy Twombly. Its among one hundred of the late artists photographs currently on v...
[Photo my own]I think maybe I look forward to posting the annual Sippin in Seersucker reminder because it gives the history geek in me a chance to repeat the origins of the fabrics name (seersucker c...
[Image via Chatsworth] [Detail of handmade lion from Richardsons Lionheart Project.]Late last night I received the new issue of Selvedge. While combing through the calender listings at the...
[Gouache and pencil on tracing paper, circa 1913-15, attributed to Duncan Grant or Frederick Etchells. Given by Pamela Diamond to The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958. Image is fromBeyond Bloomsbury.]...
[Details from the paintings of 18th-century artist Itō Jakuchū as seen in the NGAs Colorful Realm podcast.][Image via the NGA gift shop.]Following their six-year-long restoration, th...
[Image via Erica Tanov]On my computer screen at the moment:The Indian cotton madras spread at Erica Tanov. In Berkeley, faded, blurry varieties can feel boho yet in Connecticut the fabric is s...
[Prince with Ladies in Camp. Gouache on paper. Lucknow, India, c.1760. © Victoria and Albert Musem.][Top left: Jaisilmir by John Stefanidis. Bottom right: Alexander and Charlotte di ...
[All screengrabs are from the 1995 BBC production of The Buccaneers. Production design by Tony Burrough; art direction by John Hill and Choi Ho Man; set decoration by Catherine Davis and costum...
[Roses in a Jar, 1947, by Victor Pasmore. From Tates collection.]Some recent posts over at tumblr warrant a few brief comments here. First, one of Britains leading 20th-century artists, Victor ...
[Screengrabs are from a V & A video about Mat Collishaws 2010-2011 installation, Magic Lantern.]Fashion designer Matthew Williamson and visual artist Mat Collishaw are among the contemporar...
[Althea McNish as seen in the digital companion to Portraits: Women Designers compiled by Leah Armstrong. McNish is pictured looking at her Crystalline design in the black and white colorway, a...
[Detail view: Durbar of Bijay Singh of Marwar Jodhpur, 1750–1800; Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M Sackler Museum.]For what seems like eons, weve been antic...
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