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Jan. 04–Although Chevrolet introduced the Cameo Carrier in 1955 as the first pickup truck marketed for everyday transport, the one currently on display at the Studebaker National Museu… Read More

Photo By Gail Musical references permeate Cubist painting and sculpture. The guitar, which Picasso depicted often, is one of the movement’s most recognizable motifs. Like a Cubist pai… Read More

The Oceanographic Museum (Musée Océanographique de Monaco) is one of the most visited Marine Science museums in Europe, occupying 6,500m2 of exhibition zones. Built on the cli… Read More

All Photos By Gail In 1937, Anglo-American couturier Charles James created the first high-fashion, down-filled jacket; a early James masterpiece. James meticulously constructed this classica… Read More

Jan. 16–BOSTON — The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is suing an Australian government museum, an American trucking company, a truck driver and other defendants for damages… Read More

All Photos By Gail In the 1986 documentary The Unheard Music, filmmaker W.T Morgan brilliantly captured the Los Angeles Punk Scene using the band X as a focal point. This Pink Handheld Radio… Read More

Ruby Bridges bravely integrated her school, inspiring Norman Rockwell’s famous civil rights painting. She continues to stand for equality today. Throughout history, the U.S. Supreme Co… Read More

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This is my kind of Night at the Museum -- Michelangelo, me, and very few other people! A review of an after hours VIP visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Michelangelo exhibit Read More

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All Photos By Gail Lucy Jones creates fashionable garments for wheelchair users and people with diverse abilities who sit for extended hours at a time. Both groups of people are often unabl… Read More

From a spaceship to a pickle barrel, these architectural wonders have just one thing in common: they’re very strange homes. Explore eight of the weirdest homes in the U.S. and learn ho… Read More

Take a cultural and historical tour in Canberra and get to know more about the capital of Australia. Over the years, the Land Down Under has been one of the top travel destinations in the w… Read More

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Indigenous people reclaim their cultural identities through art. A voice is invaluable, and being able to tell one’s story is the key to cultural survival. However, in the case of Amer… Read More

Photos By Gail A member of the “international set” in fin-de-siècle Europe, Baron Adolf de Meyer (1868–1946) was also a pioneering photographer, known for creating… Read More

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Hard Sweetness (1971) is one of Joan Snyder’s Stroke paintings, a series in which abstract imagery and mark-making register personal and political struggles and decisions. Snyder… Read More

Photo By Gail In the mid-1960s, affordable, single-use paper clothing enjoyed a burst of widespread popularity when it was introduced to an American market eager for commodities. This Dispos… Read More

Photo By Gail Hey, if you need to find a way to come out to your Mom, and she is also a Star Wars Fan, maybe you can do so via this fun poster, which I spotted on Gansevoort Street out front… Read More

All Photos By Gail In the 1980s, Judaica artists began to reexamine the form of the Hanukkah lamp, which according to rabbinical prescription should have eight lights in a straight row and o… Read More

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Excerpt from the book Different Planet 5 Days in the life of an English office – there’s lots of banter and insults flying around in this story. One person goes to the wrong… Read More

These literary landmarks are the stuff of every bookworm’s dreams. There’s a lot to take into account when you’re planning a vacation, but one thing bookworms never want to… Read More

Photo By Gail Premiering at the Art Institute of Chicago in October 1930, Grant Wood’s American Gothic captivated the public’s imagination and catapulted Wood into the national s… Read More

All Photos By Gail The only real bummer about David Bowie Is, the Brooklyn Museum’s immersive and wildly fascinating career retrospective on the late, great rock superstar is the fact… Read More

A linear actuator is an electro-mechanical device used for movement control. It’s used in every kind of machine to initialize or stop movement. A linear actuator as the name ‘li… Read More

Photo By Gail Before attending the Royal College of Art in London, Peter Phillips (b. 1939) studied graphic design and technical draftsmanship. He applied his skills to establish a style ma… Read More

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All Photos By Gail The dynamic, curvilinear design of the Current Chair (2004) by Vivian Beer seems to defy the strength and hardness of the steel from which it is made. Historically, few wo… Read More

Welcome to the latest edition of Ears the NewsBrought to you by our friends at WDWMagic.com.Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny will be hosting Easter Egg Relays and Hunts on Easter Sunday April 1, 20… Read More

Enjoy your stay while visiting Zeugma Mosaic Museum book at Divan Gaziantep, starting from 72 €. The biggest mosaic museum in the world! Inlcudes: – Open buffet breakfast &ndash… Read More

It’s the color that divides us, but why? Growing up, I told anyone who would listen that my favorite color was green. It wasn’t untrue. I’ve always been obsessed with color… Read More

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Photo By Gail In Aïda Muluneh’s photograph All In One (2016), a single figure embodies multiplicity through the addition of extra hands of different hues. Muluneh’s use of c… Read More

All Photos By Gail Do you like Eggs? I sure do. If you like Eggs and also enjoy visiting the weird little artsy pop-up events that happen in NYC every so often, such as the Museum of Ice Cr… Read More

High and Mighty, 2018  (All Photos By Gail) Following a five-day preview run, ideally located at the New York City Fire Museum on Spring Street, artist Alexander Millar’s firefigh… Read More

Photos By Gail Grant Wood designed this Lounge Chair and Ottoman in 1938 for his own living room. Henry R. Lubben, a Cedar Rapids furniture maker, manufactured the design in a variety of fab… Read More

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All Photos By Gail Christian Siriano designed this dress for actress Leslie Jones to wear to a film premiere. Jones had tweeted that due to her physique, no fashion designer was willing to d… Read More

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Photo By Gail This Untitled Abstract Painting (circa 1963 or 64) is one of the last paintings made by Eva Hesse before she switched to sculpture. Its deconstructed symbols, figures, and shap… Read More

This excerpt is from the book entitled 40 Strange Groups. Little is known about them, hence the shortness of the book and the low price. This is a club where the emphasis is on the word dist… Read More

Image Source for Above Photo. All Other Photos By Gail. Opening an art gallery inside a restaurant may not be an entirely original idea, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen… Read More

Photos By Gail A pioneer of Minimal and Conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007) is known for large-scale, geometric wall drawings, often using bold stripes of pure color to creat… Read More

Screen Pinning or App Pinning feature was introduced by Google for Android devices (Lollipop and above) to lock them down into single application mode. The feature allows the user to lock t… Read More

Want to feel like you’re a world away without the long flight and jet lag? Check out these places to visit in the U.S. that look and feel remarkably similar to their European counterpa… Read More

Photo By Gail The diminutive nude female figure in the upper right area of  The Nymph Echo (1936) is often identified as Echo — a mountain nymph of Greek Mythology. Far more domin… Read More

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” On Salvador Dalí’s birthday, May 11, we remember the surrealist painter’s equally surreal life. In 1924 French poet Andr… Read More

Photos By Gail Unlike many 20th-century fashion designers, Norman Norell rarely sought inspiration from non-western or exotic cultures. Norell’s Obi dresses (circa 1965) were a rare e… Read More

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All Photos By Gail If you happen to be a fan of character-based, pop culture collectibles — which includes dozens of items encompassing such must-haves as enamel pins, plushies, art t… Read More

Hentai-Inspired Art on Box Truck, Bushwick, Brooklyn (Art By MAST, All Photos By Gail) Having lived in NYC for 30 years, it’s easy to be all jaded and imagine that I’ve seen just… Read More

All Photos By Gail This Red Satin Slashed Baseball Jacket from Vivienne Westwood’s spring 1991 collection references the Renaissance fashion trend of “slashing,” in which a… Read More