Franny Nemer Hyde Trustee and long-time friend of The Hyde How did you first become involved with The Hyde Collection? Growing up in Philadelphia with a family of artists and…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Welcome Derin!
Derin Tanyol Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art Welcome to The Hyde, Derin! What would you like our members to know about you? I’m an art historian,…
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Artist Spotlight: Takeyce Walter
Takeyce Walter is an award winning contemporary American painter (born 1980, Jamaica), media producer, and art instructor living and working in beautiful upstate New York. Driven to create from an…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Sotheby’s Sale (Episode 2)
Luca della Robbia (Italian, 1399-1482), Madonna and Child, ca. 1450, tin-glazed terracotta (18½ x 15¾ in.). Photo credit: Sothebys.com. There were a number of items in Sotheby’s January…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Sotheby’s Sale (Episode 1)
I’ve discovered a new form of engrossing pandemic-era online viewing. This week is my favorite week for January sales. Late in the month, various auction houses and dealers in New…
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Ask the Experts | Forged Art
Question: How do you know when a work of art is forged? Answer: You always have to be wary of a forgery, a work that was manufactured to deliberately fool…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Inspired by the Adirondacks
Recently, I heard a segment on NCPR about the Trout Lake artist Jeff Davis, who is in Florida during the pandemic lockdown. More accustomed to working in oils, he has taken…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Swiping Right
Before there was Tinder and the internet, there were artists and diplomats conveying images between potential suitors. There is nothing new in exchanging beguiling pictures. Detail: Bartholomaeus (Barthel/Bartel) Bruyn, the…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Facetiming the Divine
This post is an experiment. Can our current use of online communications systems provide analogies for the way religious imagery worked on and for the viewer in the Middle Ages?…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Christian Narrative Painting
Those of you who took an Art History survey course undoubtedly learnt the name of Giotto. Between 1303 and 1306, he decorated the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy with frescos that…
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