Art About Grief

The Art of Grief, from a magazine called Obit.

Wow

The Prado is using Google Earth to map some of their famous paintings. You can get near microscopic clarity on any part of the works.

I especially love the complicated math of the story: "The Google Earth images have a resolution of 14,000 megapixels, some 1,400 times greater than a picture taken on a standard 10 megapixel camera." Ya think?

Rembrandt and Recession

There's been a lot written about how our current economic troubles are affecting today's art market and artists. Here's an essay about how a Dutch economic collapse influence Rembrandt, and about how our current situation changes the way we can see his--and change the way we see his paintings.

Philip Perlstein

I'm not familiar with this artist. What do y'all think?

What does this mean for the Code?

New DaVinci sketches found.

Lots of Fun in The Times

Apparently, Greece had women.

Apparently, so did England.

Charting the break-up songs.

"Tubes and things"

An article about the installation at a subway station we are unlikely to encounter on our trip.

Wearable Art

A Times story about Calder jewelery.

Flemish Mystery

Here are some names we've seen recently, "The Master of Flemalle and Rogier Van Der Weyden."

Whole Lotta Education

The Arts Journal weblog is running an ongoing debate about arts education this week.