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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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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London’s National Theatre To Offer Audiences A Free Play To Stream Every Week
The majority of our Hyde Collection patrons are no doubt trying desperately to find a normal routine while quarantined at home during the COVID-19 outbreak. And we’ve heeded your call…
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Scenes From The Hyde Collection Benefit At The Strand Theatre On March 1
The Hyde Collection would like to extend a big “thank you” to everyone who made it out to our benefit concert at The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls, NY. The…
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Catch Works By Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi At The Hyde Collection Through June 8
You don’t have to travel to a major city to catch a glimpse of some of the greatest works of the 20th century. Until June 8, visitors to The Hyde…
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