Merry Christmas from MAN. Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone who sent in reviews, news and notices over 2014. Have a pleasant break and MAN will be back in early January.
BAROCCI, Federico Fiori The Nativity 1597 Oil on canvas, 134 x 105 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
If you need something to read about art over the break here are a few good articles from around the web I have been reading over the past few weeks.
The debate over the restoration at Chartres, which began in the New York Review of Books with an article by Martin Filler, a response from Madeline H. Caviness and Jeffrey Hamburger, and this recent article in the Guardian.
Another debate, this time over Computer Vision and Art History. Griselda Pollock wrote an article back in August arguing that although computer vision may be useful for art history, it can’ replace the work art historians do. This was in response to a program developed by computer scientists at Rutgers University that they claimed could discover similarities between artists, a sort of computer connoisseurship. A recent response from one the scientists has been published in The Conversation UK.
A story about the hiding of the ancient treasures of the National Archaeological Museum on the eve of the German occupation of Athens, 1941.
No title (Unwrapped Christmas presents under the Christmas tree)
from the Christmas Holidays with Bob’s Family, Mermaid Beach, Queensland series, 1977-1978; printed 1979