Tag Archives: Art

1390: And the Books Were Opened

Posted on February 20, 2021 by corvusfugit

Jacobello Alberegno’s polyptych of the Apocalypse was originally part of a much larger set of artworks in the church of the Benedictine convent of San Giovanni Evangelista on the Venetian island of Torcello; it is now on display in the … Continue reading →

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1808: Portrait of a Horse’s Ass

Posted on November 23, 2020 by corvusfugit

Henry Raeburn: Portrait of George Harley Drummond (ca. 1808–9); “It is curious…that the animal’s hindquarters should be so prominently displayed” says the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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1750: First Sleep, Second Sleep

Posted on November 21, 2020 by corvusfugit

That dreaming is a less sound species of sleep, appears from the familiar fact, which has probably been observed by every individual; viz. that the first sleep is much freer from it than the second. We retire to rest, fatigued … Continue reading →

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1959: Satchmo Talking

Posted on October 18, 2020 by corvusfugit

Collages by jazz great Louis Armstrong, mostly done on reel-to-reel tape boxes. Dates on the newspapers used range from 1959 to 1971, the year of his death.                           … Continue reading →

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1932: New Art Saves Strange Beasts

Posted on September 13, 2020 by corvusfugit

A headline from this article in Popular Science Monthly, January 1932:

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1969: Better Than Those Motherfuckers

Posted on August 28, 2020 by corvusfugit

Wadsworth Jarrell: Compared to What – I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It (1969) My painting Compared to What: I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It was critiqued. The form consists of graffiti-style words … Continue reading →

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1895: Long Beach

Posted on August 16, 2020 by corvusfugit

George Howell Gay: Surf, Long Beach, Rockport; I made up the date.

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1629: The Most Trivial Disagreements

Posted on August 15, 2020 by corvusfugit

Such personal correspondence and diaries as survive suggest that social relations from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries tended to be cool, even unfriendly. The extraordinary amount of casual interpersonal physical and verbal violence, as recorded in legal and other … Continue reading →

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1955: Tomorrow is Never

Posted on August 12, 2020 by corvusfugit

Kay Sage: Tomorrow is Never (1955) DESTINY If I turn back at least I shall not have the sun in my face. But then there will always be the long shadow of myself before me.

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1874: Seascape

Posted on August 6, 2020 by corvusfugit

Alfred Thompson Bricher: Seascape (1874)

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