Kimber Scott

"If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll." - Kimber Scott

Good stuff Kimber..thanks for sharing . - Michael Parsons

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"Moki lives and works in Hamburg Germany. She is part of the international group "from bee to bee" www.frombeetobee.net. She works with different media like painting drawing performance street art and sculptures. The website which looks like an animated green cloud invites everyone to explore." - Kimber Scott

"Jiri Trnka (1912 - 1969) is well-known (relatively-speaking) for his brilliant animated puppet movies. He has even been dubbed the "Walt Disney of the East." Recently I discovered that this Czech artist also illustrated children's books throughout his career. Many of these books were published in English from the fifties to the seventies, though none are currently in print." - Kimber Scott

"Woodblock printing is an ancient Chinese art form—the earliest known prints date from the Han Dynasty before the year 220. Over the past hundred years, however, the medium became politicized. Prints were created by the Communist Party to communicate with primarily illiterate population, while later artists would rebel and reinvent woodcuts for their own purposes." - Kimber Scott

"Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981 and currently lives and works in the US. She is a graduate of the Academia di Arte e Design di Firenze in Florence, Italy. The first three works in this post are "paintings of the traditional fashion in the United Arab Emirates." - Kimber Scott

"Scientists claim to have the first persuasive evidence that Neanderthals wore "body paint" 50,000 years ago. The team report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that shells containing pigment residues were Neanderthal make-up containers. Scientists unearthed the shells at two archaeological sites in the Murcia province of southern Spain." - Kimber Scott

"Lady Jane Grey was nominal Queen of England for just nine days in 1553 as part of an unsuccessful bid to prevent the accession of the Catholic Mary Tudor. This new display charts the posthumous iconography of Lady Jane Grey and explores how works in print promoted her as an archetypal Protestant heroine and martyr. It is not known for certain whether a portrait of Lady Jane Grey was painted during her lifetime. Given that Lady Jane came to prominence only for a very short period before her death (from July 1553 to February 1554), there would have been only a small opportunity in which a portrait from the life could have been painted. The reign and execution of the 'nine days queen' seems not to have made a considerable impact on the public consciousness of the day. It was not until the turn of the seventeenth century that a culture of producing posthumous portraits of Lady Jane Grey developed." - Kimber Scott

"Guercino’s vibrant "Lot and His Daughters" (about 1651-1652) was acquired by the Museum in October of 2009. The large painting (176 x 231 cm / 69 ¼ x 90 7/8 inches) will be unveiled to Museum members and the general public on Friday, Jan. 22 during a 7 p.m. ceremony in the Museum’s Great Gallery. "Lot and His Daughters" will temporarily hang in the gallery’s most prominent location, normally reserved for Peter Paul Rubens’ "Crowning of St. Catherine", which will be relocated to an adjacent wall. The move will result in several additional works being relocated within the gallery in order to show the new Guercino to its best advantage." - Kimber Scott

"It might come as a surprise to anyone who has never visited Florida’s West Coast to learn from art historian Aaron H. De Groft, that “the only large painting cycle by Peter Paul Rubens outside of Europe” is housed not at a place like the Met or the Getty, but at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in the beachfront town of Sarasota. Ringling’s sprawling Mediterranean compound- which includes a palatial art museum, his former winter residence, and a small museum devoted to his famous circus, contains one of the largest collections of Old Masters paintings in the country." - Kimber Scott