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Art historian, Arsenal fan, Brit living in the buckle of the Bible Belt.
These times! Illustration by Elena Lacey/The Washington Post; iStock.
15.08.2025 11:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘Fifa trialled Ref Cams at this summer’s Club World Cup in the United States, after which the chair of its refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, said the experiment had gone “beyond expectations”.’
All this reveals is just how low their expectations must have been.
Fake or Fortune consider a possible Angelica Kauffman painting. #ArtHistory youtu.be/d_Q6gW02Ajo?...
12.08.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01 in 512? Not very good at this sort of thing, but apparently those are the odds of flipping nine heads in a row with a coin toss.
09.08.2025 12:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fake or Fortune investigate a possible Frances Hodgkins. www.dailymotion.com/video/x9o6hb0
07.08.2025 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1And the river in the background… Caillebotte always thinking like the yachtsman he was.
04.08.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The latest Fake or Fortune looks at two possible Renoirs. #ArtHistory youtu.be/i-bYZyPJPRs
30.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On Paul’s preseason-as-making-pancakes analogy. Tip: Heat the pan up properly and you won’t have to throw the first pancake away. You’re welcome.
29.07.2025 01:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lesser known Caillebotte street scenes (circa 1878) from the Getty show
26.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Good images help students fall in love with the study of art.
Smarthistory makes 17,063 high-resolution photos of commonly taught works of art and architecture available for free w/a Creative Commons license for use by students and teachers: www.flickr.com/photos/profz...
#art #arthistory #photos
A lot of them will be British expats with American family members (like me). Crazy not to have an exit strategy, even if (fingers crossed) you never have to use it.
24.05.2025 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ha! Paul Karasik in the New Yorker. #ArtHistory
12.05.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Typography 101: why kerning matters.
11.05.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Highly recommend Guy Delisle’s new graphic “novel” about Muybridge. Beautifully designed book—complete with three flick books embedded within. Covers Muybridge’s colourful life, but also a great primer on early photography, magic lanterns, animation & film. History at a gallop! #ArtHistory #Film
30.04.2025 14:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So much for the Watts curse….
16.04.2025 21:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Having a great time in York at AAH 2025. Lucky enough to be part of a really good panel yesterday, and it’s not often that the co-chairs are so invested in their panel that they hand-make a beautiful object for attendees. Impressive effort indeed! #ArtHistory
11.04.2025 04:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Folks forget this is what the Fly of the original short story might have looked like.
We all grew up with the movie(s), so the whole insect/feline/human mixup isn't part of it.
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Artwork © 2014, 2025 Stephen R. Bissette
Couple of reviews from The Guardian/Observer:
Stephen Smith: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Kathryn Hughes: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
"Call me Mrs. Dalloway."
31.03.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview of the expanded and renovated Frick Collection, which will reopen in mid-April. #ArtHistory #Museums
news.artnet.com/art-world/re...
Thomas Rowlandson’s Connoisseurs (1799)
22.03.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You’re very welcome, Philippe, and thanks for everything you do!
17.03.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh, and that Avant et Après manuscript she mentions is now in London!—at the Courtauld. You can read a facsimile of it here: courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/a...
17.03.2025 12:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Stephen Eisenman’s Gauguin’s Skirt (1999) is another nuanced account of the artist’s complex relationship to Polynesian culture, and stresses his oppositional stance to the French colonial administration.
17.03.2025 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of the fun things about seeking out original magazine covers is noting how things like library stamps and address labels are in dialogue with the cover illustration… here, for example, they seem to add trompe-l’oeil elements to Rockwell’s canvas, papers, etc. #ArtHistory
14.03.2025 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vertigo (without the death bit)! i.gifer.com/1lnT.gif
13.03.2025 12:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perhaps she’d seen Strangers on a Train (1951)?!
11.03.2025 22:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watching The Substance prompted me to consider the relative paucity of nosebleeds in #arthistory. Apart from body horror films & some contemporary examples, Veronese’s Christ in the House of Levi is one of the few to come to mind. So I was happy to find this. www.bustle.com/articles/193...
11.03.2025 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And there’s a great episode on him in the first season of Netflix’s Abstract: The Art of Design (season one, episode one).
04.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
