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Fine Art Focus: John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent: The Triumph of Religion The Triumph of Religion is an ambitious mural cycle painted by renowned artist John Singer Sargent at the Boston Public Library. Spanning 84 feet long and located in the third-floor Sargent Hall, the masterpiece took 29...
Ecommerce, Fashion and What Comes Next
Ecommerce & Fashion and What Happens Next Online fashion just crossed a trillion-dollar threshold. The industry that barely existed twenty-five years ago is now the largest B2C e-commerce category on earth — and it's moving faster than at any point in its history....
Fine Art Focus: Étienne Trouvelot & the Birth of Astronomical Impressionism
Étienne Trouvelot (1827 - 1895) The French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot is noted for two major contributions in his lifetime. The first, and the one we are celebrating in this post, is the 7000 or so illustrations he created...
The Global Bestiary
Global Bestiaries How Exotic Animals Shaped Human Art History For millennia, the appearance of exotic animals in art has chronicled the outer limits of human trade, diplomacy, science, and imagination. When rare creatures crossed oceans and deserts as royal gifts,...
Color is a Scam
Color is a Myth It's all in your head Color is the ultimate cosmic scam, but your brain is the one pulling the con. In physics, objects do not possess inherent color. A strawberry is not red, and the sky is not blue. The universe is a colorless landscape of matter...
The History of: A New Luxury
The word “luxury” has a history as old as civilization. It has meant: debauchery, lust and lechery; refinement, restraint and divine right.