In 2019, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. However, American artists were celebrating and documenting our closest celestial body, long before the landing in 1969.
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans to land on the moon.
Displayed in the exhibit, The Color of the Moon, there are two works by Thomas Chambers. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes, Chambers did not limit his subjects to views that he knew firsthand but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Can a chair be a work of art? Of course it can! A chair is a type of sculpture that can also have a function. Some of them can only be decorative.
Can a chair be a work of art? Of course it can! A chair is a type of sculpture that can also have a function. Some of them can be decorative as well. Find the chair, Current, by Vivian Beer, shown in the exhibition, The Art of Seating.
These seven canvases by Edward Steichen (1879-1973) were created between 1910 and 1914 as a mural series to decorate the foyer of a townhouse on Park Avenue in New York City.
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Have you ever been to a museum where you were actually asked to touch the art? In the exhibit, Leslie Pontz: Integration, the traditional "hands off" policy is not in effect. There [...]
What does an author use to write? Some writers use a pencil and notebook while other writers may prefer to use a computer. In the case of James Michener, he [...]
