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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Author: Gina Fisk
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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Curator’s Thoughts: If Not Graven Idols, what is Christian Art?
For Christians, Sunday was Palm Sunday, the day they celebrate, and some even reenact, Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, when his supporters climbed the tress and strew his path with palm…
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Curator’s Thoughts: Looking For A Book To Read?
To be honest, I haven’t had time to chill out with a book since this all began for us in the North Country about three weeks ago. In the time before,…
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Curator’s Thoughts: The Black Presence in Western Art
This month, the Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam opened a new exhibition entitled HERE. BLACK IN REMBRANDT’S TIME. The exhibition overlaps with The Hyde Collection’s presentation of the art of an accomplished,…
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The Hyde Brings You To Museums Around The World: Part 1
Throughout the world, museums are working hard to bring their communities some light and inspiration during this strange time of distance. Museums are places that provide education and history, joy…
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Artworks tell history of intimate affairs
An article in The Guardian examines centuries of sexual secrets hinted at in artists’ masterpieces. It’s a fun read, with a little centuries-old gossip of who stepped out with whom,…
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The power of nature, harnessed
1 to 4 pm Sunday, November 10 Many Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region focus on the idea climate change. This Art Lab, we will explore the beauty of nature,…
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Peek-a-boo! We have a surprise for you!
10:30 am Friday, November 1 Have you played peek-a-boo and delighted your child when he or she sees your face? Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist…
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