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Racine Art Museum: Free First Fridays
Racine, Wisconsin — Visitors investigate the Racine Art Museum during Free First Fridays hours on an August evening. First Fridays is a monthly event in downtown Racine, during which admission to the art museum is free of...
Beachside Oasis mural ‘Fiesta,’ Racine, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin — West facade of Beachside Oasis (formerly North Beach Oasis) at 100 Kewaunee St. in Racine's North Beach Park on the Lake Michigan shore, featuring a Latino-themed mural entitled "Fiesta." The mural was...
Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart: Out-crazying Glenn Beck
Keith Olbermann's segments on Glenn Beck's Rockefeller Center lunacy the past two nights have been hysterical. Do not miss these: The clip above is from Thursday night's installment of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. In it, Keith analyzes Glenn Beck's...
Cadillac, Big Boy, Hamburglar, Farmall tractor in Cudahy WI yard
For my last birthday, our wonderful friend Tracey gave me an engrossing book called Weird Wisconsin which catalogs all sorts of legends, ghost stories, local loonies, roadside oddities, peculiar collections, large fiberglass objects, and unusually positioned...
New York Times: Racine, Wisconsin is a travel destination with art
Racine was featured in a New York Times travel story yesterday as something of a Mecca for art and artists and architecture: New York Times: "On Lake Michigan, a Port of Call for Art," by Mary Billard It's a very nice piece, and as...
Joseph Campbell: Hero’s Journey, Power of Myth
Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field...
The Bean, Chicago: A shining, elastic success
Chicago's latest centerpiece was was dedicated at last yesterday, after a protracted birth process that saw it re-enter the womb briefly for a final polishing. (The photo above was taken before that, on September 5, 2004.) Cloud Gate, more popularly known as The Bean,...
Kenosha HarborMarket: Farmer’s market on the lakefront
Last Saturday — and then again today — we visited the Kenosha's HarborMarket. My dad used to take me to Kenosha's Farmer's Markets when I was a kid. He made the best dill pickles I have ever tasted. We would go to the grocery store to get the vinegar, the salt, the...
Michelangelo’s tomb, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
Florence, Italy — The tomb of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Basilica of Santa Croce, designed by Giorgio Vasari. Above the tomb are three sculptures representing the personifications of Painting, Sculpture, and...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Windhover Hall in Quadracci Pavilion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — Visitors converse in Windhover Hall, the Milwaukee Art Museum's gateway and reception hall in the Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and completed in 2001.[includeme...
Father Damien Statue, Hawaii State Capitol
Honolulu, Hawaii — The bronze Father Damien Statue by sculptor Marisol Escobar at the Hawaii State Capitol.
Hawaiian quilt pattern 2, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii — Cotton Hawaiian quilt on display at the Bishop Museum, artifact number 1988.214: This quilt's floral pattern is unique and not recognizable. Blue applique done on white background made by Kauhine...
Hawaiian quilt pattern 1, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii — Hawaiian quilt on display at the Bishop Museum, artifact number 1984.364.001: Red applique on white background with red binding along edges. Quilt pattern called "Fan and Feather Plume of...
Scrimshaw whale tooth, Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii — Antique scrimshaw whale tooth artwork depicting "The Sailor Boy" (artifact # 1921.014.050 at Honolulu's Bernice P. Bishop Museum) by an unknown artist from the mid-19th century. Below the etched art...
Place du Tertre artist sketching, Montmartre, Paris
Paris, France — An artist sketches a woman in the Place du Tertre, the famous square just west of the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur in the Montmartre district of Paris' 18th arrondissement, where artists set up their easels...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre Museum, Paris
Paris, France — Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is displayed at the Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre). The oil painting, done on a poplar wood panel, is 30 inches high by 20 7/8 inches wide (77 centimeters by...
Louvre Museum: Paintings in the Salon Carré
Paris, France — Visitors tour famous paintings of the first Italian Renaissance, from the 12th to 15th centuries, in the Salon Carré (Square Salon) of the Louvre Museum. A few of the tourists — including Dan Falato, center —...
Victory statue, Carnavalet Museum, Paris
Paris, France — Victory statue by sculptor Louis-Simon Boizot in the Victory Courtyard Garden (Cour de la Victoire Jardin) at the Carnavalet Museum. It is his original version of the gilded Victory statue which tops the...
Carnavalet Museum, Paris: Garden & Victory statue
Paris, France — The Victory courtyard garden (Cour de la Victoire Jardin) at the Carnavalet Museum. Four beds of patterned boxwoods occupy the courtyard's four corners, and a statue of Victory stands atop a pedestal centered...
Mosaic detail, Kemper Center in Kenosha
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Detail from a mosaic mural covering an exterior wall of Kenosha's Kemper Center.
Barry Flanagan sculpture: ‘The Cricketer’
Chicago, Illinois — Sculpture displayed at the John Hancock Center: "The Cricketer," by Barry Flanagan.