(also, sorry this is a bit late! yesterday I took a mini-road trip to model for a Tarot Card themed photoshoot for a friend. It was a lot of fun!)
Art history has a surprisingly exciting background of spying, intrigue, and mystery, and this is just one more example, involving a Soviet spy and the French government.
After 8 years of being in storage during the Cleveland museum's huge renovation, the impressive Asian art collection is finally being displayed in it's new, glorious home! Again, fantastic backstory here, about a few of the famous curators who gathered treasures during their military stays in Japan and Asia during the wars. The renowned curator Sherman Lee even served as one of the monuments men in Japan during WWII.
If you love history and you haven't played Civilization 5 (for PC), you are MISSING OUT. The new expansion just came out this week and this article tells of the fascinating process the creators go through in doing historical research and portraying the various civilizations as accurately as possible!
A neat archaeological find by Durham University that sheds light on the religion and mythology of the people living near the Roman frontier in Northern England. A friend of mine is studying at Durham's archaeology program, so this was very exciting for him!
Not news, persay, but an awesome contemporary landscape/earth artist that I discovered via tumblr. Check out her site and some of the incredibly neat and unique examples of her art.
I'm really excited about all the art I get to look at in the BNW expansion. It was interesting to read the process by which the designers added new civs. Venice looks like a big challenge.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Cornelia Konrads "Chinese for Beginners" (or whatever it was in German) is funny.