MONDAY MUSE

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…

The artist Banksy is well known for his controversial works of art and stunts, such as adding a painting at the Tate Britain in 2003, installing his own rendition of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

People have been making portraits for thousands of years. Most early portraits were made to honor and to remember the dead.  By the 15th Century, people were having their portraits painted…

Today’s Monday Muse is about one of the most important paintings by American born artist James Whistler. The piece, done in 1871, has come to be known as “Whistler’s Mother”,…

What’s it Worth? People often disagree wildly about the value of art. Vincent Van Gogh died in poverty, because no one would buy his paintings. Even his friends said that his paintings…

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. He is most well known for his depictions of the American…