Tag: Art History

• March 7, 2026

  Art and the More Beautiful Question

  Pablo Picasso once famously said, “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.” The remark may have sounded provocative when it was first made, but Picasso might have been onto something. In a world where computers place almost every form of knowledge at our fingertips, answers have become easier to obtain than ever before. What has become…
• September 20, 2025

  The Valley of the Temples : A Living Palimpsest

  Arriving at the Valley of the Temples, the first thing I noticed wasn’t the ancient ruins. It wasn’t the landscape, the weathered stone, or the ochre dust suspended in the late afternoon light. It was our guide, Giovanna, who greeted us with a warmth and spark that mirrored the burning sun overhead. Her voice carried…
• October 28, 2024

  De Chirico’s Paintings that Cannot be Seen.

  Everyone knows of this mysterious place called the mind, but few can describe it. Even fewer can describe what it looks like because no one has seen it for real. I would bet that if one is asked to even hazard a guess at what it looks like, this attached image of an iceberg depicting…
• February 28, 2022

  Welcome to the museum. Make yourself at home!

  Just because I belong to the field of art, some people decided that they should only visit the museum with my company because they made me the so- called authority on the subject. That is further from the truth, as a three year degree in Art History can only teach me with so much. The…