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Van Gogh's letters provide an extraordinary map of the artist's interior world Michelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable's correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying...
Kampala — Survival instinct stifles a creative mind On many occasions when foreign connoisseurs and art lovers have visited some art galleries in Kampala to view particularly grouped exhibitions, they have often marveled at the...
For the first time in history, the Uganda Museum has had a rear opportunity to showcase works of modern Dutch masters in a show codenamed "Dutch Masters Today." The organisers say it is actually the first time such an...
Vincent Van Gogh - 819 - were written between 1872 and 1890 by Vincent, mostly to his brother Theo, but also to other members of his family and various artists, such as his early mentor Anton van Rappard, and later Emile...
KRISTIAN Winther sits at a South Melbourne cafe in the spring sunshine with his back to the Australian National Academy of Music. One of those people is Brett Dean, ANAM's artistic director and the man who spearheaded the...
Come Thanksgiving, buying a copy of The Baxter Bulletin from a news rack could be a cultural experience. Students throughout the Twin Lakes Area have been busy expressing their creativity on 21 Bulletin racks, painting their...
Art review and art news: In ways comparable to today's multitasking cell phones, a new technology began to change the way people envisioned and documented their environments, and one another, in 19th-century France.
View of Sacre Coeur & Montmartre on a Winter Day, Paris: Montmartre is the highest hill in Paris, and a village atmosphere still pervades these ancient streets. There’s a great description of it in Wikipedia if you like...
Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depression. It has been a great...
Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Measuring 14.5 by 11 feet and weighing in at close to two tons, Jan van Eyck’s “Ghent Altarpiece” is not the likeliest candidate for the most stolen artwork of all time. Art historian Noah...
