SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA.- Visitors to the ancient temples of Angkor experience a confluence of history, majestic architecture and isolation. A collection of artistic photographs by American pictorialist John McDermott presents a visual experience that clo…
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA.- Visitors to the ancient temples of Angkor experience a confluence of history, majestic architecture and isolation. A collection of artistic photographs by American pictorialist John McDermott presents a visual experience that clo…
LEICESTER.- A University of Leicester researcher has discovered two photographic images, presumed lost, of native Americans brought to Britain by Roger Casement a century ago. Dr Lesley Wylie, Lecturer in Latin American Studies in the School of Modern …
LEICESTER.- A University of Leicester researcher has discovered two photographic images, presumed lost, of native Americans brought to Britain by Roger Casement a century ago. Dr Lesley Wylie, Lecturer in Latin American Studies in the School of Modern …
AMHERST, MA.- The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College has published its first e-book, The Development of the Art Collection of Amherst College, 1871-1971 (Kindle Edition), for the Amazon.com Kindle e-reader. The original version of the book was written …
NEW YORK,
NY.-Gary
Snyder/Project Spaceis showing a
one-person exhibition of drip paintings and works on paper by Janet Sobel (1894
– 1968). She is best known as the self-taught artist whose drip paintings of the
early 1940s influenced Jackson Pollock. Her work has been acclaimed
both in the “high” art world of Abstract Expressionism and in the “Outsider” or
“Folk Art” world of self-taught artists.Sobel was born in 1894 in the Ukraine,
emigrated to New York in 1908, and married and raised a family of five children
before becoming “one of America’s most talked about surrealist painters…”
Completely untrained, Sobel first painted in 1937 at the age of 43. On
exhibition through 27 February, 2010.
