Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

Folk Artist Bill Traylor with his artworks. Courtesy Alabama State Council on the Arts Photo-Horance Perry 1946 ART Folk Artist  Bill Traylor  American Folk Artist 1854-1949  Pencil and Poster Paint on cardboard (This collection of Bill Traylor’s work was presented for sale at the ADAA ART SHOW in March 2016 by the Betty Cuninham Gallery, […]

ART The Independent Art Fair NYC  2016   The Independent Art Fair NYC 2016 was made up of over 40 international galleries and non-profit art institutions. A list of the participating galleries is at the end of this article. The Independent Art Fair 2016 was held on 4 levels at Spring Studios / 50 Varick […]

ART BECCA LOWRY High Art can begin at Home Depot! Art, Painting, Sculpture, Craft and Psychology Unite in Artist Becca Lowry’s Constructions By Jack A. Atkinson   Artist Becca Lowry, (left) with Gallerist Kate Katin at Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, Art Fair Booth A 12, VOLTA NY 2016. While strolling through the many Art Fairs of NY during […]

Jackals & Hounds – Game of the Ancient Pharaohs. ART: Met Museum’s  Ancient Egypt:  The Middle Kingdom –  Objects of Daily Life  and Ceremony (Issue 2 of 2) During the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt (mid-Dynasty 11–Dynasty 13, around 2030–1650 B.C.), artistic, cultural, religious, and political traditions first conceived and instituted during the Old Kingdom were […]

Flail of Hapiankhtifi ART: Met Museum’s  Ancient Egypt:  The Middle Kingdom –  Objects of Daily Life  and Ceremony (Issue 1 of 2) from a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art During the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt (mid-Dynasty 11–Dynasty 13, around 2030–1650 B.C.), artistic, cultural, religious, and political traditions first conceived and instituted during […]

Artist Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles with their “Other Nefertiti” now placed in the permanent collection of the American University of Cairo. ART 100 YEARS LATER QUEEN NEFERTITI RETURNS TO EGYPT (As a perfect reproduction.)German-Iraqi artist Nora Al-Badri and German artist Jan Nikolai Nelles entered the Neues Museum in Berlin and clandestinely 3-D scanned the bust of Queen Nefertiti. […]

Colossal statues became much more common during ancient Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. Notice the realism of this ear detail.   Throughout the history of the world, invading forces and political/ruling/dictatorial leaders of later years have had former rulers and their tombs, plus their temples of worship destroyed. All periods of ancient Egypt suffered this fate. Above, […]