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  • Empires - The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
    Empires - The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
    A fascinating and highly entertaining look at one of the most important families of the Renaissance era--the Medici.
  • Sister Wendy - The Complete Collection (Story of Painting / Grand Tour / Odyssey / Pains of Glass)
    Sister Wendy - The Complete Collection (Story of Painting / Grand Tour / Odyssey / Pains of Glass)

    “Sister Wendy Beckett has transformed public appreciation of art through her astonishing knowledge, insight and passion for painting and painters.” This set includes Sister Wendy's Story of Painting, Sister Wendy's Odyssey, and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour. Simultaneously delightful and scholarly--this is a must have for anyone interested in art history.

  • Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    When British stencil artist Banksy traveled to Los Angeles to work, he came across obscure French filmmaker Thierry Guetta and his badly organized collection of videotapes involving the activities of graffiti artists. Inspired, Banksy assembled them with new footage to create this talked-about documentary, and the result is a mind-boggling and odd film (so strange as to be thought a hoax by some) about outsider artists and the definition of art itself.
  • The Impressionists
    The Impressionists
    A dramatization of the Impressionist movement as seen through the eyes of Claude Monet. Highly entertaining and informative.
  • The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
    The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
    A very personal and revealing look at the personalities that created Impressionism.

Entries in Did You Know? (168)

Friday
Aug272021

Did You Know?

DateFriday, August 27, 2021 at 2:30PM

New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.

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Wednesday
Aug112021

Did You Know?

DateWednesday, August 11, 2021 at 8:00AM

The famous human-like Halloween pumpkins were created by Ray Villafane (b. 1969). He is called the Picasso of Pumpkin Carving.

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Wednesday
Jul282021

Did You Know?

DateWednesday, July 28, 2021 at 8:00AM

On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.

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Wednesday
Jul142021

Did You Know?

DateWednesday, July 14, 2021 at 8:00AM

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows; it was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.

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Wednesday
Jun302021

Did You Know?

DateWednesday, June 30, 2021 at 8:00AM

Even though he was nominated for an Oscar in 2011, was named Person of the Year in 2014, and has won many awards, the real name of the world’s most famous graffiti artist, Banksy, has still not been definitively determined.

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