MONDAY MUSE | Art Heist

In the very early hours of March 18, 1990, a vehicle pulled up near the side entrance of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Two men wearing police uniforms pushed…

MONDAY MUSE | The Blue Room

Who’s the Man Hidden under Pablo Picasso’s The Blue Room? In 2014, art historians announced that they had found hidden under the surface of The Blue Room painted by Pablo…

MONDAY MUSE | Amber Room

Today’s Monday Muse is based on a book of historical fiction I recently read and while it’s not about traditional art, such as painting or sculpture, the subject relates to…

MONDAY MUSE | Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII. After the death of Edward VI in 1553, she became Queen of England, at the age of seventeen.  Only nine days…

MONDAY MUSE | Pepper No. 30

Edward Weston is one of the most important and influential American photographers of the 20th Century. It is interesting that one of his most famous photographs is of something as…