Revisiting Miro’s art and life on a Spanish island
July 17, 2011 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category: Main Content
Following the path, and sculptures, of the artist Miro on the Majorca.
Portraits of Grief, Written in Stone
May 12, 2010 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category: Main Content
The Mourners offers viewers at the Metropolitan Museum a rare chance to study these sculptures more closely than in their normal setting in Dijon, France.
Parthenon and Color
June 28, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category: Main Content
Today, the Parthenon temple that watches over Athens is a pure, white building, dazzlingly bright on sunny days against the deep blue sky. But it wouldn’t have looked anything like this in ancient Greek times. Researchers at the British Museum announce today that they have detected tiny traces of blue paint on the building’s sculptures – suggesting that the temple’s statues and friezes would have been not stark white, but a riot of colour. I’ve just written a short story on the work for New Sc
How Bizarre, How Bazaar
October 17, 2008 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category: Main Content
Need a little Gothic something to add to your wardrobe or party outfit for Hallowe'en? The Bazaar of the Bizarre is a hallowe'en and holiday marketplace this Sunday, organized by a Toronto arts-based collective known as The Royal Sarcophagus Society (The RSS). You'll find exotic and macabre items from corsets, hats, tailcoats, horror t-shirts, jewellery and accessories to spooky dolls, pillows and divination products. There will also be eerie artwork, haunted sculptures, glass and metal art a
