A selection of posts on art

This page will soon have a link to it over in the gutter so that these posts won't be completely consigned to oblivion.

Yesterday’s adventures at the Nelson-Atkins

Some writing about Rothko

Some more writing on Rothko

Diego Velázquez, Venus at Her Mirror

In which a strange but familiar image becomes strange all over again

Art meme

Pieter de Hooch, The Linen Closet, and Danielewski, House of Leaves: Negotiations of space

Doorsien, and why Vermeer doesn’t employ it

Velázquez, The Supper at Emmaus

Adventures at the Wichita Art Museum

Art meme II

A quick visit with Las Meninas

Art meme III: Art to see before you die

Edward Hopper, Conference at Night

"Ora et labora: Quantifying "Aesthetic Response"

"Looking at etchings" meets Darwinism: more on quantifying aesthetic response

In which the Meridian proudly toots Mrs. Meridian's artistic horn

In which the Meridian loathes Kinkade and gets religion without knowing it

Eclecticism as an American aesthetic: A lion's preliminary throat-clearing

American aesthetics I: Bingham's lion

Pacheco, his famous pupil, and some comments on "influence"

Further gazing at the Venus Effect: Some questions

"Women in Art"

"Capturing transience"

Home by Dark: A speculative reading

Mark Rothko

A Survey of Not to Scale