ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Parrot Day: Two Majolica Cockatoos
May 31st is World Parrot Day!
To celebrate, here are two cockatoos seen at the recent Majolica Mania exhibition at the Walters Art Museum:
Category: Exhibition
NEW EXHIBITIONS: 2 new animal-themed shows opening concurrently at Rijksmuseum!
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is set to open a pair of new animal-themed exhibitions, both running from 30 September 2022 – 15 January 2023: 1 CLARA THE RHINOCEROS –Clara was unfamiliar, impressively large, and strange to behold – in short, she was different from any other animal. Clara the Rhinoceros tells…
NEW EXHIBITION: Tingatinga @ UCLA’s Fowler Museum
Tingatinga September 25, 2022–January 8, 2023 Free Admission Fowler Museum at UCLA This exhibition showcases a series of animal paintings made by members of the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society in the 1990s. The Tingatinga style began with Tanzanian painter Edward Saidi (E.S.) Tingatinga (b. Dar es Salaam, 1939; d. 1972)….
ONLINE EXHIBITION: Reading the Book of Nature at the Edward Worth Library and the Zoological Museum, Trinity College Dublin
To mark the quincentenary of the birth of the famed Italian natural historian Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605), the Edward Worth Library and the Zoologial Museum of Trinity College Dublin have co-curated a web exhibition called “Reading the Book of Nature,” which juxtaposes images from the Worth Library’s set of Aldrovandi’s natural…
UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Galloping Through Dynasties at the Cleveland Art Museum
Galloping Through DynastiesOctober 7, 2022–January 1, 2023Cleveland Museum of ArtSchiff Gallery Gallery 234Free admission. Galloping Through Dynasties explores the evolution of Chinese horse painting in both its symbolic and its stylistic aspects throughout Chinese history. The approximately sixty art works drawn from the collections of leading U.S. museums and one from Japan…
NEW EXHIBITION: “Feathered Ink” now open at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
“Feathered Ink” is a new exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art which “explores how Japanese artists have experimented over several centuries with different brush techniques in their depictions of avian subjects,” and showcases three galleries of hanging scroll paintings, folding screens, ceramics, and printed books. In Japan,…
SWIPED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA: Minneapolis Institute of Art shows off fintastic fish kimono
Festival Kimono, Akita Prefecture, Tōhoku region, Honshū. Late 19th-early 20th century. Cotton; shibori (shape resist) 51 × 50 inches (129.6 × 127 cm) “The motif on the back of the garment is known as koi no takinobori (“carp ascending a waterfall”), which was an immensely popular design. It references a…
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY from Majolica Mania: Pretty Fly
Here’s another neat piece from the recent Majolica Mania exhibition at the Walters Art Museum:
SWIPED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter discovers “the world’s greatest drawing of a frog”
This fabulous frog racking up likes and retweets on Twitter can be found amongst the over 100 species of flora and 50 species of fauna in a huge scroll painting by Ito Jakuchu called “Saichufu” (also known in English as “Compendium of Vegetables and Insects”). Here is a detail of the…
EVENT: “Object Focus: Percy the Peacock” [Walters Art Museum, online]
The Walters Art Museum just announced a virtual event scheduled for Thursday 4 August from 6pm-7pm (Eastern U.S. time), tied into their current Majolica Mania exhibition, and specifically, its star attraction: The star of the Majolica Mania exhibition is a five-foot-tall ceramic peacock nicknamed Percy. This impressive sculpture celebrates the…
