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Category Archive: General

Has someone been reading your emails?

Seven years ago, I compared rising surveillance to the vile practices of the Stasi. Now it is happening: email, webcam, and more private communications are being scanned in bulk.

October 6, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Henry Tonks, surgeon, painter, professor

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Uniquely, he worked as a surgeon before becoming a full-time painter. He eventually became Slade Professor too.

October 5, 2016 General, Painting

Into the Light: Cecilia Beaux’s perceptive portraits, 2 – from 1898

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From success to success, she painted the President’s family, and France’s elder statesman and a good friend of Monet.

October 4, 2016 General, Painting

Into the Light: Cecilia Beaux’s perceptive portraits, 1 – to 1898

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Her portraits are of the New Woman: well-educated, thoughtful, and increasingly in control of their own destiny.

October 3, 2016 General, Painting

Prizes, performance and still life: Chase’s fish speciality

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Why did he paint so many still lifes? And why did so many of them feature fresh fish?

October 2, 2016 General, Painting

Skiffs, sculls, and rowing regattas

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In the 1870s, four major artists painted scenes of rowing and similar watersports – apparently independently.

October 1, 2016 General, Painting

The spontaneous or methodical: Chase and Eakins at work

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Their working methods could hardly have been more different, but they shared a common interest.

September 30, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Sierra, wide colourspaces, and browser engines

Colour gets simpler and better in Sierra, except of course when it comes to the web. Have you had any odd colour glitches?

September 30, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Into the Light: Julian Onderdonk – bluebonnets and pseudonyms

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One of the most famous Texan painters, he is known for his bluebonnet works. But he also painted under pseudonyms when in New York.

September 29, 2016 General, Painting

Students of Chase: his greatest legacy

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A survey of some of his better-known students, from Emma Lampert Cooper, Joseph Stella, and George Bellows, to Georgia O’Keeffe.

September 28, 2016 General, Painting

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