Linear perspective – Filippo Brunelleschi
Linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines (orthogonals) in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single...
How Two African American Collectors Celebrated Black Artistry Amid the Civil War
[ecwid_product id="163247084" display="picture title price options addtobag" version="2" show_border="1" show_price_on_button="1" center_align="1"] In 1863, as the Civil War was being fought on battlefields across the country, with a nation at war...
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for April 2021
April is beginning to look a little brighter in Los Angeles with cherry trees, increased vaccinations, and museums opening their doors across the city. After a year of closures, institutions...
Your Concise New York Art Guide for April 2021
April is shaping up to be a strong month for solo shows, particularly those devoted to women artists (and we love to see it). From Alice Neel’s first New York...
How Foreign Women Have Been Tokenized Since Ancient Roman Times
Like many Asian-American women, I’m still profoundly shaken by the March 16 murder of eight people in Atlanta — six of them Asian women. The suspect’s reported explanation that spas...
An Anti-Racist Group Is Holding a Confederate Monument for Ransom
An anti-racist group known as White Lies Matter has stolen a Confederate monument from the Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Alabama, and says it is holding it for ransom....