Samuel Bourne in India: Empire in the Making The way in which the British backed into the idea of empire or imperialism in contrast to colonialism can be viewed by contrasting the contemporaneous reactions of the nation to America and India. The Americans were...
AMERICAN STORIES: PAINTINGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. 1765 – 1915 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City October 12, 2009 – January 24, 2010 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles February 28, 2010 – May 23, 2010 American Stories is a beautiful...
Eadweard Muybridge and the Horses of Leland Stanford Part Two On the sixth of June in the year 2015, a horse won the Triple Crown. After a drought that had lasted almost four decades American Pharaoh galloped to a win by five lengths. The Los Angeles Times celebrated...
Eadweard Muybridge: Photographing Colonialism Part Three Although the relationship between Eadweard Muybridge and Leland Stanford would send the photographer down a path that led to one of the main art forms of the twentieth century, the photographer, the cool killer...
OUTSIDE THE BOX EDITION JACOB SAMUEL, 1988 – 2010 ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM May 23 – August 29, 2010 Jacob Samuel, a master printer and the art world’s “best-kept secret” has a life that many would envy. He gets artists to think “outside the box.” As...
