Lewis Carroll

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to host Hide & Seek: Picture Childhood

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Exploring our fascination with childhood as captured throughout photography’s history, Hide & Seek: Picture Childhood will feature 45 works by 42 photographers from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection . Among the works are a stunning mid-19th-century portrait by Lewis Carroll, and contemporary color photographs by Jocelyn Lee, Sage Sohier and Julie Blackmon. They...

• Exhibition Explores the Many Facets of Childhood Depicted in the History of Photography - Artdaily
• Hide & Seek: Picture Childhood - Art

Uncovered: 350-year-old picture of dodo before it was extinct

Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009

A previously undiscovered 17th century picture of a dodo, drawn before the bird became extinct, is to be sold at auction by Christie’s. The drawing, which dates from the late 1600s, offers a rare insight into the appearance of the flightless bird that was the first recorded casualty of human interference in the habitat of other creatures. Dodos were the main predators on Mauritius until settlers...

T is for Tang Museum

Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009

When my wife and I took a mini-vacation to Saratoga Springs, NY in late April, we went to the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. On the second floor, we came across Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History . This is a "major survey exhibition" that "examines the unique collaboration between Rollins, an artist, activist, and educator, and the Kids of Survival...