ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Binturong Day
Happy World Binturong Day, celebrated annually on the 2nd Saturday in May! This watercolor of a Binturong is from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings…
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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…
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…
EXHIBITION: “Kingfisher Headdresses from China” at The Art Institute of Chicago
The vivid feathers were expensive, with the most prized specimens imported from Cambodia and Vietnam. Artisans cut them to shape before painstakingly pasting the feathers onto gilded metal backing that formed the structure of the headdresses. Precious and semiprecious stones such as rubies, agate, and jadeite as well as other…
