To Have and To Hold – Italian Renaissance Cassoni
Here I am baby Oh, you’ve got the future in your hand Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours – Stevie
Alone, Quiet, and Gloriously Free – Matisse’s Portrait of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg
Henri Matisse’s painting of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg is considered to be one of his most mysterious portraits. Strange curving lines
Follow the Money – Porcelain, Part 3
To learn more about the origins of porcelain in China and its cultural and economic impact upon Europe, please read
Come to Cold Mountain – Porcelain, Part 2
How was porcelain first created in China? Please see Porcelain, Part 1. In 1271, seventeen-year-old Marco Polo began a five-thousand-mile journey
When Thousands of Hands Held a Secret for a Thousand Years – Porcelain, Part 1
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science, said
To See and Hear an Unknown World – Painter Vasily Kandinsky
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in performance is sculpted into something. – Frank Zappa Music
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part Two)
In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a war memorial honoring the Parisians who defended the city while it
