Abrégé de l’art des accouchements (The Art of Obstetrics)

You would be forgiven for thinking the soft-sculpture above was a modern or contemporary piece of art. In fact, it … More

Ancient Art Education

In a prior post titled Artfully Ancient Learning, I analyzed an early 2022 archeological discovery of pottery fragments from Ptolemaic-era … More

Parody is a time honored artistic strategy that has potential to prompt critical thinking, stir emotions and even inspire cultural … More

In 1933, John Andrew Rice founded a private liberal arts school in the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina, … More

In 1961, conceptual artist Joseph Beuys was appointed professor of “monumental sculpture” at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany, where he … More

In kindergarten was when I (and probably many others) first heard the saying “one person’s trash becomes another’s treasure.” This … More

I am getting quite fed up with the seemingly endless cycle of art being censored and/or attacked by misguided partisans … More

Winold Reiss had been more or less an obscure figure within the canon of modern European and American art and … More

Mainstream Japanese culture during and in the aftermath of World War II was practically restricted to works of art that … More

Educational materials include a variety of objects such as visual and auditory media, books, manipulatives (i.e. blocks) and toys that … More