Each year, the Columbus Museum of Art and Columbus City Schools partner for ARTful Reading, an experience that connects every CCS 5th grader to the art and ideas of the CMA, in ways that promote deep thinking, literacy skills, and Read More…
Woman-About-Town: Newark’s Own Ema Spencer
Ema Spencer was born to Dr. Benjamin Franklin Spencer and his wife, Susan Porter Spencer, in the Licking County village of Gratiot, Ohio, on March 1, 1857. Benjamin was a well-respected physician in the area and Susan managed the Spencer Read More…
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Selections from the Sun Photo Hunts
The Sun. It’s an essential part of our everyday lives and of our modern image-making technologies that it often goes unnoticed–or becomes an unexamined cliché. To coincide with The Sun Placed in the Abyss exhibition, we challenged photographers to respond Read More…
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Into the Light Photo Hunt Challenge
Noted British Landscape painter Joseph Turner was a devotee of sun-staring or sun-gazing, which involves staring with the naked eye directly at the sun. Scientists had previously used the camera obscura to protect against the blinding brightness of the sun. Read More…
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Photography and the Sun
“What is the sun?” inquires Francis Ponge in the introduction to his poem Le Soleil placé en abîme, translated into English as The Sun Placed in the Abyss. Of course, Ponge already knew, like we do, that the sun is Read More…
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Photo Selections from Picasso and Friends
On August 12, 2016 in Paris artist Jean Cocteau armed with 4 rolls of film and a recently introduced portable Kodak camera set out to photograph Picasso, and their circle of friends, which included Modigliani, poet Max Jacob, actress Emilienne Read More…
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