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:
Tag: ceramics
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Today is the “Feast of the Ass” so here’s a donkey dish
January 14th is Feast of the Ass day! Yes, that’s a real thing — it originated as a niche Christian medieval feast day celebrated primarily in France as part of the Feast of Fools. I suppose that feast’s name should’ve prepared me for my encounter with this donkey dish at…
IN THE NEWS: Art meets science in analysis of ancient dancing horse statue
A 1,300-year-old sculpture of a dancing horse — a precious relic of China’s Tang dynasty — captured an ancient tradition of trained horses performing for emperors.But curators at the Cincinnati Art Museum weren’t charmed with one of the lively 8th-century statue’s features: a forehead tassel they suspected wasn’t original.How to investigate without…
SWIPED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA: MNA’s “Piece of the Month” is the Tenayuca Tlacuache!
Translation of caption: “In many Indigenous myths and legends, the tlacuache [opossum] has a special place. He is cunning and stands up to power to bring fire to men. Being a central figure in the mythology of pre-Hispanic peoples, he was represented in ceremonial dishes, such as this one found…
SWIPED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art features animal pieces from its collection all month long!
After a long period of relatively little activity outside of posting info about events, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art’s social media has had a busy August sharing more images from its collection, including no less than a half dozen animal art-themed works! I have been sharing these on the…
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Owl Supernatural Decapitator!
Here’s another piece from the Ancient Americas gallery at the Reading Public Museum…“Owl Supernatural Decapitor” needs to be someone’s new goth metal band name In Moche art, birds of prey are sometimes depicted as Supernatural Decapitators who sever the heads of sacrificial victims. This Decapitator Owl has a face with…
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…
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: It’s a duck, it’s a dolphin, it’s a…duckphin? (dolduck?)
“Dolphin on back of duck; one head serves for both.” So instead of two heads are better than one they decided to go with one head is better than two? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “Orifice in tail of duck and round opening in head which allow passage of air through body and up…
