Archive for June, 2006
Missing the Picture: Desperate Housewives Do Art History
by Joe Phalen, Editor, Artcyclopedia.com There are from time to time films and television programs which merit mention in this column for their adroit use of works or imagery drawn from the history of art . Many people may be missing the picture and...
Picturing the Banjo
by Robin Tierney Having evolved from a stringed gourd instrument brought by slaves from West Africa to America in the 1700s, the banjo has been appropriated as an American icon. A richly storied one at that, by virtue of culture-crossing...
