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This week I had the pleasure of attending the exhibit “Andrew Forge: The Limits of Sight,” held in the Fairfield University Art Museum. Andrew Forge was a British artist and professor at Yale University,...

In 1888, Vincent van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France with his artistic rival, Paul Gauguin. Despite being one of the most famous artists in our collective consciousness, and a pioneer of the...

It has been a raucous week, though more aptly, a raucous year. The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the world, resulting in over one million deaths worldwide, and 200,000 within the United States...

The studio art program, like other parts of the Fairfield community and the world at large, has seen many changes since the beginning of the pandemic. Jo Yarrington, professor of studio art in the Department...

When you think of an Egyptian queen, it’s natural to imagine Cleopatra, a lover of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. She was the last ruler of an independent Egypt before Rome conquered it and she, facing...

The Hagia Sophia, or “Holy Wisdom,” in Istanbul, Turkey was, for centuries, at the heart of the Christian Byzantine Empire. Then it was also the heart of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Today it remains the...

When I was little I considered myself to be a celebrated female artist. Drawings of small, misshapen horses with suns in the corner were often hung on the side of the refrigerator, borderline pressed against...

Cubist Portrait based on Picasso’s “Head of a Woman”, made using photographs of Luka’s face and photos of clothing found online, with added color and brush strokes Frames of an animation of...

I fully understand that a decent amount of art is hard to understand. It’s difficult to grasp why the all-black Marc Rothko paintings sell for tens of millions of dollars, or how an artist can become famous...

Sometimes art truly tells a story. You stand in one of those big, white galleries, in front of a piece you don’t fully understand, and feel as if it’s speaking directly to you. Like that scene in “Ferris...